Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Bayern Munich – Football Match Report – October 27, 2021

Borussia Monchengladbach sensational hit three times in the first 21 minutes to demolish German champions Bayern Munich 5-0 Wednesday and eliminate them from the second round of the German Cup.

Gladbach’s dream start gave two goals of Rama bensebaini and one of Kouadio Koné put them in the driver’s seat before Breel’s embolism hit twice at the start of the second half to kill the game.

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They became the first team to score five goals against the powerful Bavarians since Borussia Dortmund5-2 victory in the 2012 German Cup final and the first-ever team to score three goals in the first 21 minutes against Bayern in a German Cup match.

It was also the first time that Bayern Munich had lost a game by five or more goals since December 9, 1978 against Fortuna Düsseldorf (7-1) in the Bundesliga.

They only needed 80 seconds to open their account with Kone leaping on a sloppy pass from Bayern Alphonse davies beat the keeper Neuer manual.

With Bayern’s defense in disarray, the hosts should have scored again with Jonas Hofmann and Embolo closing in as the visitors’ defensive efforts accumulated.

Gladbach did better in the 15th, surpassing Bayern’s static baseline for Bensebaini to scold a Hofmann cut ahead of Neuer.

Before they had time to recover Lucas hernandez, who earlier Wednesday had seen a six-month suspended prison sentence Spain, awkwardly knocked Embolo into the box and Bensebaini sent Neuer the wrong way with a daring kick to make it 3-0.

With Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann confined to his home after testing positive for COVID-19, assistant coach Dino Topmoeller had to wait until the second half to see decent attacks from his players, who scored a record-breaking 33 times in their first nine league games. .

But before he even picked up a beat, Gladbach struck again with Embolo beating two defenders, who let a high ball bounce between them, to insert the ball into Neuer’s legs.

The Swiss scored his second goal of the night in the 57th, again finding too much room to score his fifth on the post.

The shocking result also ended Bayern’s streak of 85 consecutive games, the longest such streak for a side from Europe’s top five leagues at the time.