The moment Song scored the second goal against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, December 14, 2018 (Getty)
Bayern Munich suffered the bitterness of its first defeat in the current season of the German Football League, after its rival, Mainz, managed to achieve a victory by two goals to one, on Saturday, in the competitions of the 14th week of the “Bundesliga”.
The Bayern Munich stars had several dangerous chances since the beginning of the confrontation, but the Mainz team dealt intelligently with the great pressure that their goalkeeper was under, but the biggest surprise was in the 41st minute, when the South Korean, Lee Jae-sung, managed to score the first goal, Minutes before the end of the first half, in which the home team and the crowd were able to advance with a clean goal.
But the South Korean star, Lee Jae-sung, returned again to punishing Bayern Munich in the second half, after he took advantage of the lack of concentration among the captain’s teammates, Thomas Muller, to score the second goal for the Mainz team in the 60th minute, so that the host team continued to implement its coach’s plan, through the defense of the area. And relying on counterattacks and set pieces, which constituted a nightmare for the Bavarian giant players.
The absence of the English star, Harry Kane, Bayern Munich’s top scorer, from the confrontation against Mainz, due to the injury he suffered, was evident, because his replacement, Thomas Muller, was unable to score goals, which made it more difficult for the Belgian coach, Vincent Kompany, to decide to introduce a number of players. Alternative options, in order to improve the way of playing, and hit the area’s defense, so that Leroy Sane succeeded in scoring the first goal for the Bavarian giants in the 87th minute, but it was not enough to avoid Defeat.
Thanks to this result, the Mainz club was able to achieve what some teams had been unable to do since the beginning of the current season of the German League, after inflicting the first defeat on its rival, Bayern Munich, and was able to raise its score to 22 points, while the score of the captain’s companions, Thomas Muller, froze at 33 points. The conflict is now heating up in the “Bundesliga”, due to the presence of major competition from Bayer Leverkusen, the defending champion last season, Eintracht Frankfurt and Leipzig.