A Thomas Muller double and a Niklas Sule strike weren’t enough to stop the Bavarians outfit going without a win in three as they conceded late on <\/p>\n
Under-fire Bayern Munich coach Niko Kovac slammed his side’s defending after they conceded twice late on to succumb to a dramatic 3-3 draw with Fortuna Dusseldorf in the Bundesliga on Saturday.<\/p>\n
A Thomas Muller double along with a goal for Niklas Sule had handed the home side a 3-1 lead at the Allianz Arena heading into the final quarter-hour, but a subsequent brace from Dodi Lukebakio \u2013 including an injury time strike \u2013 to complete a remarkable hat-trick rescued a point for the visitors<\/p>\n
Despite their two-goal advantage, Bayern threw bodies forward in the closing stages, twice allowing Lukebakio plenty of space to run into and coolly finish past an exposed Manuel Neuer.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Kovac, who took over at the club ahead of the 2018-19 campaign, was less than impressed with his side’s defending and acknowledged they deserved to be punished in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can imagine how I feel internally,\u201d the former Frankfurt boss said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you have the game under control and lead, then I am anything but happy \u2013 I am very angry.<\/p>\n \u201cI just cannot understand that we did not realise the position we were in.<\/p>\n \u201cBut far worse is the way we defended all three goals conceded. It does not matter if you are playing against a struggling side or Champions League team, these mistakes will be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n The draw, coupled with Borussia Dortmund’s 2-1 win over Mainz, means Bayern are now nine points behind the league leaders and extends their winless streak to three games, following a draw with Freiburg and defeat to Lucien Favre\u2019s side before the international break.<\/p>\n Goalkeeper Neuer, who has endured a torrid few months as captain of Bayern and the Germany national team, insists his side’s under-performing players will leave no stone unturned in a bid to bridge that gap.<\/p>\n “That should not happen to us,”\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n “We are bitterly disappointed with ourselves, but we have to live with that. We always question ourselves and always want to do our best. We are our harshest critics.”<\/p>\n Bayern next host Benfica in the Champions League group stages on November 27 where Kovac\u2019s side can at least secure progression to the knockout rounds with a draw.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Thomas Muller double and a Niklas Sule strike weren’t enough to stop the Bavarians outfit going without a win in three as they conceded late on Under-fire Bayern Munich coach Niko Kovac slammed his side’s defending after they conceded twice late on to succumb to a dramatic 3-3 draw with Fortuna Dusseldorf in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n