Like the classic Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, Bayern Munich relied on the kindness of strangers to advance past Union Berlin in the DFB-Pokal Round of 16. Union Berlin conceded two own goals in the first half and the mountain proved too high to climb.<\/p>\n
In the month of November, Bayern developed a reputation for being unable to handle set pieces. Bayern reversed their fortunes against Union Berlin where all three Bayern goals came from dead ball kicks.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe know playing here in Berlin is always difficult – a lot of long balls, second balls, duels, fighting,\u201d said Konrad Laimer (via @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cI thought we did well in the first half, we scored from set pieces, but conceded two penalties which made the game complicated. We\u2019re aware that set pieces are an important topic in football, so I\u2019m happy we managed to use them to our advantage today. In the end cup games are all about advancing to the next round.\u201d<\/p>\n Granted, Union Berlin\u2019s goals were technically set pieces. Both penalty kicks were the direct result of Bayern mistakes rather than Union Berlin creations.<\/p>\n As for the next opponent, Laimer does not have a preference but cheekily added \u201ca home game would be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like the classic Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, Bayern Munich relied on the kindness of strangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[59288,49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bayern-munich-dfb-pokal","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}