In the 71st minute of the game, Thomas Müller suddenly ran out of it so quickly as if his mom had just called in Pähl at home that the large bowl of salad was finished for him. But when he stopped at the outdoor line in the stadium in Munich on this Tuesday evening, only his coach was waiting there. For the most difficult game of the season so far, the first leg in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Inter Milan, Vincent Kompany had to replace the player who is most difficult to replace in his team: Jamal Musiala, who will be out for several weeks because of a muscle bundle. But that evening he had not replaced him with Thomas Müller, but with Raphaël Guerreiro. Because he believed that the offensive, but above all defensively against the strong midfielder from Milan, would be the better strategy. In this 71st minute, in which Thomas Müller ran next to the field because it was finally going on, FC Bayern Munich ran after a 0-1 deficit on the field. But when the people in the stadium got up because they saw Müller, you felt that the energy changed. And that this change would be the history of this evening. In addition, Thomas Müller cannot be said as far as the last Saturday, when both Müller and his club have announced with statements that the player’s contract is not extended again, many stories have been told. The story with disagreement. The story with sovereignty. And again the story with the salad. On the streaming platform Amazon Prime Video, the documentary “Thomas Müller – one like none” has recently appeared, which records a scene from everyday family life of the Müllers in Pähl. You can see how Thomas sits at the table in his parents’ house and eats salad. He tells of a preliminary round game of the Champions League and when his little salad bowl is empty, he stings in the big bowl with his fork, whereupon his mother exhorts him (“Hallooo!”) And then asks with a motherly strict in the voice: “May I still make you salad?” Then she is not allowed to do it, Thomas Müller cannot be said. And he also cannot ask everything. Jubile: Thomas Müller achieves the equalization. Apartment on Tuesday evening, when Thomas Müller’s substitution really became the story, he stood out on the field of the first of many interviews. He had shot the 1-1 eleven minutes after his substitution. But when the Amazon reporter raised his third question so emotionally when he told about the documentary, about the moments that would never come back, Müller interrupted him and said: “Do I have my farewell game today or do I have Champions League, quarterfinals, first leg? I’m not on a Farewell tour.” His-his last Champions League game in Munich could have played, Thomas Müller reminded why he was important for FC Bayern, is important and can continue to be important. He reminded of it with deeds. But also with words. This did not change because his story actually only lasted three minutes. “A goal difference, that is nothing, that is an action” when Vincent Kompany decided to change, he not only sent Müller to the field, but also Serge Gnabry and Sacha Boey. In addition to the two strikers, he decided on the right -back Boey because the central defender Minjae Kim had already been punished with a yellow card in the 28th minute, which led to several rotations in defense: the right -back Konrad Laimer then played as a left -back. The left -back Josip Stanišić played as a central defender. And when Inter Milan countered in the 88th minute, just three minutes after the 1-1, Boey made a decisive mistake: he left his position because he wanted to stop the counter – but he made it dangerous. Two passes later Davide Frattesi shot the ball into the goal. 2: 1st frustration: FC Bayern still loses. Dpaals Müller later came into the interview zone of the stadium and should say which feelings he was with, he replied: “With a certain dissatisfaction, logically and yet with a confidence, also logically.” You could hardly contradict him. The Bavarians were not the worse team on this evening, but the clumsy (among other things Harry Kane shot the ball in a situation in the post in which he would otherwise shoot it nine from ten times). Because of inaccuracy, Bavaria may have hope, even if the result speaks against them. Or as Müller said all of this: “A goal difference, that’s nothing, that’s an action.” And when it was no longer about the game, but still about the proclaims of the past Saturday, he moderated the discussions, as he can only moderate it at FC Bayern. A reporter wanted to know how to have his goal – he had stretched out his arm and finger – because he had to interpret and what he went through his head: “It is so that my fingers and my whole body show in a wide variety of directions. I don’t have absolute control. And what went through my head? The thyroid has stuffed how stupid and did not think much.” Wanted to know how he had experienced the past few weeks: “We look back less, but ahead, that was always one of my strengths and accordingly it is full of strength.” And again another reporter wanted to know how frustrating it was for him that, despite Jamal Musiala’s injury, he did not make it into the starting line -up: “My role throughout the season was not so that the squad was built around me, but was not so: I always tried to support the team, no matter how many minutes. Of course, I am always available for a starting fine, but every player is happy to do that. It is important for me that I cancel that it is about big the whole. You also need players who come in, the games decide. ”And when Thomas Müller disappeared from the interview zone and from the arena well after midnight, he was sure that he will be discussed again at least until the second leg in Milan next Wednesday, as he would like: as a athlete.
