Stand: January 12, 2025, 9:05 a.m
Von: Peter Grad
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FC Bayern’s guest appearances in Mönchengladbach were less successful than other Bundesliga rivals. The most impressive win came after a remarkable week.
Munich/Mönchengladbach – Before the top Bundesliga game against old rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern can look back on many games that were not much fun in the past at Bökelberg, but now in Borussia Park. Five of the last nine away games (three wins, one draw) were played at the Foal lost – more than any other team during this period. For FCB standards, you can certainly speak of a kind of “feared opponent”.
Both clubs with BL negative records
In the overall balance, FCB is clearly ahead with 53 wins after 56 years together in the Bundesliga and 112 games, but the German record champions did not have to accept a total of 28 defeats against any other opponent in the competition. In the previous season, however, Bayern won both duels with Borussia and the 53 lost matches against FCB also meant a negative Bundesliga record for Gladbach.
However, with FC Bayern’s most spectacular away win in Bundesliga history in Gladbach in the 1978/79 season, one can certainly argue about whether the events leading up to it or the game itself were more extraordinary. Despite later FC Hollywood and today’s turbulent social media times, that season was by far the most turbulent in Munich’s 60-year Bundesliga history.
Bayern are falling far short of expectations
After the disastrous Season 1 according to Beckenbauer The FCB had significantly upgraded for the 1978/79 season with, among other things, the signing of Paul Breitner – who came back from Madrid via Braunschweig. However, the results remained very unsatisfactory for many reasons and reached a sad climax from Bayern’s perspective in the Bundesliga game on March 10, 1979: Arminia Bielefeld under coach Otto Rehhagel dismantled Bayern 4-0 in the Olympic Stadium at home in front of only 11,000 spectators.
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This embarrassing defeat was too much for today’s honorary president Wilhelm Neudecker and after that disastrous game he threatened to coach Max Merkel, who was extremely unpopular with the players. In the short term, Neudecker then reached an agreement with the “leaders“The team (Paul Breitner, Sepp Maier) apparently insisted that coach Pal Cernai, who was very popular with the players at the time, would be allowed to stay if three points (using the two-point rule at the time) were scored from the upcoming two away games .
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However, after the 0-0 draw in Braunschweig a week later, Neudecker no longer seemed to want to stick to the agreement. Merkel has already been spotted in Munich. The team rebelled and the then FCB patriarch sulked and ultimately resigned. The longest consecutive presidency – 17 years from 1962 to 1979 – in the club’s history ended both surprisingly and abruptly.
Completely unleashed Bavarians storm the Bökelberg
The rest is “legendary FCB history“: Completely unleashed Bayern stormed the Bökelberg the following weekend and gave Gladbach a “historic blow” with a 7-1 win. Breitnigge & Co. completely dismantled the previous season’s runner-up, who had only missed out on their fourth championship in a row due to a worse goal difference compared to 1. FC Köln. Karlheinz Rummenigge (3), Norbert Janzon (2), Katsche Schwarzenbeck and Kurt Niedermayer were the goal scorers in that memorable game.
At the end of the season, Bayern finished fourth in the table, returned to international competitions and just another year later, the six-year national title drought on Säbener Straße was ended with the sixth championship in the club’s history.
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