It wasn’t all his fault, but he’s a long way from being back in the starting lineup.
Bayern Munich lost 1-3 to VfB Stuttgart in the 32nd round of the 2023-2024 Bundesliga at the MHP-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, on Thursday at 10:30 p.m. ET.
The result leaves second-place Munich with 69 points (W22 D3 L7). Third-place Stuttgart, who also picked up three points, moved to 67 points (21 wins, four draws, and seven losses), closing the gap on Munich to two points.
Munich started with a 4-2-3-1 formation. Harry Kane was up front, with Serge Gnabry-Eric Maxim Choupo Moting-Matthys Tell in the attacking second line. Jafael Geheiro and Aleksandar Pavlovic filled out the midfield, while Alfonso Davies, Kim Min-Jae, Eric Dier, Jozua Kimmich, and Jozy Altidore formed the back four. Manuel Neuer was in goal.
Stuttgart countered with a 4-4-2 formation. Serge Girassi and Denis Undab made up the attacking combination, while Chris Fürich, Angelo Stiller, Atakan Karachor and Jamie Rebelling lined up in midfield. Hiroki Ito-Antony Luo-Waldemar Anton-Luca Reimund formed the back four, with Alexander Nubel in goal. Jung Woo-young waited on the bench.
It was Stuttgart who opened the scoring. In the 29th minute, Leonidas Stergiou was quick to cut inside the box from a flicked pass and rattled the net with a straight shot.
Munich took the lead. In the 35th minute, Gnabry was brought down by a defender in the box and the referee awarded a penalty kick. Kane stepped up to the spot and made no mistake. The first half ended 1-1.
At the start of the second half, Munich made a substitution. Dayo Upamecano came on for Dier, and the two teams battled back and forth. Both teams fought hard for a goal to take the lead and created chances.
In the 27th minute of the second half, both Stuttgart and Munich made substitutions. Stuttgart brought on Jung Woo-young for Fürich and Munich brought on Leroy Sane for Tell.
Stuttgart took the lead again. In the 38th minute, Silas won the ball on the left flank inside the box and sent in a cross that Jung Woo-young ran onto and finished with a header.
Four minutes of extra time were awarded. Stuttgart 스포츠토토 pushed for the winner. In the third minute of stoppage time, a pass to Girasi found Silas, who made no mistake and slotted home to double the lead. The match ended with a 3-1 victory for Stuttgart.
After Dyer’s substitution, they conceded two goals in the second half. After the game, German publication Bild released the ratings for both teams’ players. Kim Min-jae was given a 5, the same score as Alfonso Davis, who directly set up the final goal by losing a contested aerial ball to Jung Woo-young.
German media generally give ratings between 1 and 6. The closer to 1, the higher the score. Five is a failing grade.
Kim Min-Jae, who played the full time, did not play badly in this game, completing 92% of his passes (54/59), two mid to long-range passes, 100% of his tackles, and 100% of his aerial balls won. However, Stuttgart scored three goals as they were able to effectively dominate Munich’s defense.
Unlike Bild, who gave them the lowest score in the team, ‘Spox’ gave them 3.5 points. They said: “Another fluctuating performance. Overall, they were more stable than against Real Madrid, but they still had a tendency to push forward too much. Fortunately, Stuttgart were unable to capitalize on this” and gave them 3.5 points.
In many ways, the complaints about Kim Min-jae’s play are significant. Spox’s point is particularly noteworthy. Naturally, Kim’s return to the starting lineup is unclear. To a lesser extent, it is dependent on the return of the injured Matthias der Licht, as the Upamecano has been even more unsettled.
Thomas Tuchel said after the Stuttgart game, “Der Licht will train. He has trained individually and I expect him to be in good shape,” Thomas Tuchel said after the Stuttgart game, “So he will not be training individually, he will be training with the team.”