Bayern Munich captain Thomas Muller stated his facet would win the Bundesliga title this season, after a 2-0 win over backside membership Hertha Berlin on Sunday despatched it prime of the desk.
Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman scored late to snare all three factors for the Bavarians, who are actually one level away from Borussia Dortmund with 4 matches to go.
Dortmund was held 1-1 at lowly Bochum on Friday and the title race is now in Bayern’s fingers.
“We’ll get that thing (trophy) again, you can write that,” stated Muller, who got here on as a second-half substitute. “We’re back!”
The win was simply Bayern’s third in eight matches below coach Thomas Tuchel, who was introduced in after the sacking of Julian Nagelsmann in late March.
The membership has been knocked out of each the Champions League and the German Cup.
“It wasn’t a spectacular win, but it was a deserved win,” Tuchel stated. “With 34 games in a season, you’ll get a few of those — and that was one of them today.”
Tuchel instructed DAZN Bayern gamers had an “extra emotional conversation” in the course of the week about turning the season round.
“We need everything. Sometimes you need a little bit of fire, which we had this week… When a new manager comes in in April, it’s not like everything just runs smoothly.”
Bayern performs two of its remaining matches at house, one in every of which is in opposition to German Cup holder RB Leipzig within the penultimate week of the season, which sits in fifth place.
Dortmund, which has one of the best house file of any facet within the Bundesliga this season, performs three of its final 4 video games at house.
Tuchel additionally backed the out-of-form Sadio Mane, who missed a header in opposition to Hertha, to recreate his Premier League kind in a Bayern shirt.
“That was a classic Sadio situation, he’s strong with his head and usually he scores those, but that’s the way it is at the moment. He’s scored a bunch of goals in the most difficult league in the world, that’s why I will always have confidence in him.”
