He FC Bayern Fails bitterly and brutally in the Champions League semi-finals against Real Madrid. After the 2-2 draw at the Allianz Arena in Munich German record champions lose in the Spanish Bernabéu with 1:2. – In the final phase FCB was eliminated. Two scenes underscore the brutality of failure.

Scene 1: Of all people, the best make a mistake.

The kicker database records five parades, all of them brilliant feats. Manuel Neuer makes the Madrid attack desperate. Whether it's Vinicius Jr. or Rodrygo, his ultimate opponent will be the world-class national goalkeeper.

Despite the superiority of the home team, Bayern remains in the game for a long time and can even surprise Real Madrid in the second half. The final is within reach thanks to Neuer.

Then it gets brutal: when Vinicius Jr. takes a harmless long-range shot, the goalkeeper lets the ball bounce and substitute Joselu is able to score. “Of all of them,” it is said, the best player in Munich makes a decisive mistake. Neuer records the nasty touchdown in 999,999 out of 1,000,000 cases, or one “mistake in 100 years,” as Thomas Tuchel said.

Defender Matthijs de Ligt also immediately defended his goalkeeper. “That can happen sometimes, that's football too,” he says, and continues. “Of course, it is incredibly bitter. But before that he kept us in the game with world-class saves.” Expert Michael Ballack said: “It's really brutal to put yourself in Manuel Neuer's shoes now.”

Neuer himself explained his mistake in Dazn like this: “I have to say that I expected the ball in a different way, more toward my chest. Then it went up a little more and I didn't expect there to be a lunar minimum on the field.” For him, this 1:1 was also “brutal.”

However, FC Bayern have not yet been eliminated. But three minutes later. Joselu is there again and thanks to the use of VAR the goal is recognized. Real on top, Bayern on the ground. There are still eight minutes left in the nine-minute stoppage time. From here comes the second brutal scene from the perspective of Munich.

Scene 2: The referee blows the whistle too soon

It's already minute 113, injury time of injury time. Joshua Kimmich shoots the ball far into the path of Noussair Mazraoui. Ferland Mendy intervenes with his head in the area, but the ball reaches De Ligt via Thomas Müller. From the turn he finishes and scores. 2:2, extra time! Or not?

Milliseconds before, a whistle was already heard. Because the assistant's flag was raised due to an alleged offside position, referee Szymon Marciniak whistled early. And suddenly all of Bayern's frustration is unleashed on him Polish Referee. Müller lunges like a madman at Marciniak and the entire Bayern bench goes crazy.

In the end it cannot be clarified whether Mazraoui was really offside, but the VAR could not intervene because the whistle blew too soon.

After the game, there was a lot of anger about the decision. Ligt's scorer is stunned when he sees the scenes. “Incredible,” he says in Dazn. “We have the rule to always keep playing. It's not entirely clear, so you have to let it develop. You can't ignore that at all. Incredible,” he continues. Müller also sees “no reason to end this scene so soon and so quickly.”

For Tuchel, in the end, it is “the icing on the cake,” said the coach in Dazn. “This decision is an absolute disaster.” As several Bayern stars later reported, Marciniak admitted his mistake during the match and apologized. But he could no longer be corrected.