Suffering from a cold, the centre-back was not at his best as FCB fell seven points off the pace of the Bundesliga leaders <\/p>\n
Mats Hummels has lamented the part he played in Bayern Munich\u2019s 3-2 defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dortmund took command of the Bundesliga title race, moving seven points clear of their rivals as goals from Marco Reus, who got two, and Paco Alcacer outweighed a couple from Robert Lewandowski, who had twice put his side into the lead.<\/p>\n
Hummels, who was suffering from a cold, felt culpable for his part in the loss, giving the ball away cheaply in dangerous areas.<\/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 \u201cUnfortunately it got me a bit on Friday. I really wanted to try playing, first because it\u2019s such a big game and secondly for myself personally,\u201d the former BVB defender admitted.<\/p>\n \u201cBut there you have it, you saw my head was not quite there. Two such mistakes since 2010 or around then.\u201d<\/p>\n The centre-back felt his side turned in a decent display overall.<\/p>\n \u201cWe played a very, very good first half, completely dominated the game and deservedly got to the break with the lead,\u201d he said. \u201cThen it became more open in the second half. We had done well to prevent them countering in the first half, their main strength, but that came in the second. We didn\u2019t help ourselves by losing the ball easily, and I was partly to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n The next few weeks will be vital in the title race.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are still six games left until the winter break,\u201d he noted. \u201cIf we make it up a bit before then, it doesn\u2019t look so bad, but if we lose a few points before then, then that\u2019s that. So, we have to make sure we can get the job done, build on our first half, and get back to our real game in the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n After the international break, Bayern will play host to Fortuna.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Suffering from a cold, the centre-back was not at his best as FCB fell seven points off the pace of the Bundesliga leaders Mats Hummels has lamented the part he played in Bayern Munich\u2019s 3-2 defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Dortmund took command of the Bundesliga title race, moving seven points…<\/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-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n