The underdogs were hailed by Bayern’s manager and star winger after securing a draw at the Allianz Arena <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich coach Niko Kovac praised Augsburg after his team were held to a 1-1 draw in the Bundesliga on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The reigning champions dropped points in the league for the first time this season, an 86th-minute goal from Felix Gotze cancelling out Arjen Robben’s opener.<\/p>\n
Kovac was impressed by Augsburg, who collected just their fifth point from as many league games this campaign.<\/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 “Augsburg did a very, very good job over 90 minutes. They stifled our build-up play,” he said.<\/p>\n “It wasn’t easy to get out of our own half. When we did we failed to convert our chances into goals. Then it’s always very tight in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n “We’d have liked to take three points but unfortunately failed. We’ll try to do better away to Berlin.”<\/p>\n Despite the late setback, Bayern remain top of the table, although their lead was cut to two points by Werder Bremen.<\/p>\n Robben, who took his tally to three league goals in four games, said the visitors deserved their point.<\/p>\n “My goal doesn’t count. If you’re one in front you must win the match,” the Dutchman said.<\/p>\n “Augsburg turned in a superb display with lots of courage and rewarded themselves. The equaliser wasn’t completely undeserved, we didn’t do a good job.<\/p>\n “We should have been more patient and created better chances. We often failed to find solutions, but we had enough chances to close it out earlier.”<\/p>\n Bayern get a chance to return to winning ways when they visit Hertha Berlin on Friday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The underdogs were hailed by Bayern’s manager and star winger after securing a draw at the Allianz Arena Bayern Munich coach Niko Kovac praised Augsburg after his team were held to a 1-1 draw in the Bundesliga on Tuesday. The reigning champions dropped points in the league for the first time this season, an 86th-minute…<\/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-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n