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00:00We have Dan O'Hagan and Mark Schwartzer on the call.
00:05Heidenheim versus Bayern. In terms of size, there are no two clubs in the Bundesliga more different.
00:11On paper, it should be another big Bayern step towards the title.
00:16But don't forget, they did contrive to lose here 3-2 in Heidenheim a year ago.
00:23The players you see there are in the tunnel.
00:26Eric Dier, a scorer in Milan in midweek. Return today as a starter too for the well-again Alexander Pavlovich after his glandular fever.
00:37For Frank Schmidt, it's all about survival now. They are seven points from guaranteed safety.
00:43It appears for now that maybe for them the play-off position is the best they can hope for across the season's last five match days.
00:51Harry Kane waiting at the back of the line. He's only scored in two of his last eight-league matches.
00:55He's scored a goal in Milan, of course, on Wednesday. That's draw on the night with Inter.
01:02But here the flags are flying.
01:05And they anticipate another chance to lock horns with Germany's biggest and best.
01:0915,000. Every single ticket taken. A town of only 50,000. They punch way, way above their weight.
01:26And now the players must wait.
01:34Just three home wins all season here. The division's worst home record, Heidenheim.
01:39And this will feel like a cup tie for them against Bayern today.
01:45Giants and Minnows, David und Goliath.
01:57Bayern, the Bundesliga's benchmark. Heidenheim battling for their lives.
02:02We know they'll be up for the fight, but so are we, says Van Sonkompany,
02:06as Bayern look to bounce back from Wednesday's Champions League departure at Inter.
02:11The night, the dream of a home final died.
02:15Now at Easter time, all eggs are in the Bundesliga basket.
02:20At kick-off, Leverkusen six points behind Bayern in the title race.
02:35At this stage of the season, Mark Schwarzer, slips and stumbles are so expensive.
02:40They certainly are. Yeah, Heidenheim obviously have everything to play for.
02:43They need to try and turn around this really poor home form that they've had so far this season.
02:48Obviously, today is a huge task against Bayern Munich,
02:51who are on course to try and, you know, regain the Bundesliga, Charles,
02:55and they'll be doing everything they possibly can to do so.
02:58And Heidenheim will just be there. They're fighting for survival,
03:01and they're fighting for their lives.
03:05So match day 30 beyond today, just four more to play.
03:10It is the race for both the title and for survival in Heidenheim this afternoon.
03:15Referee in charge for this game is Frank Willenburg of Osnabrück.
03:21And in the Kölnikeller with the video assist monitors,
03:24the VAR team today is Sven Jablonski along with Arne Arnik.
03:29The last match day, both Bayern and Leverkusen drop points in draws.
03:40Bayern, their classic at 2-2 with Dortmund and Leverkusen at Union Berlin,
03:45a home gamer, a goalless draw at the Bayern.
03:48So the gap's still six points, still nothing settled, nothing certain.
03:55Harry Kane starts on 23 league goals, all competitions, 35 for England's captain.
04:00But they gave Leverkusen a good game here two weeks ago.
04:06Heidenheim, a game they lost late to a Buendia goal in stoppage time.
04:11They can raise their game and give any team a test, Heidenheim.
04:16And here especially, on days like this,
04:19is when they must dig in and produce most.
04:22A welcome return as a starter for the well-again Pavlovich.
04:34Josua Kimmich capped him with Neuer and Müller not in the team today.
04:46Patrick Meinke revered there by the fans,
04:49that choreo behind the goal for the skipper.
04:51But as Bayern start the game today,
04:54at this stage of the season, of course, for them,
04:57every single game must win.
04:59But this, Mark Schwartz,
05:00how do they respond to that exit at Inter's hands in the Champions League on Wednesday night?
05:06Yeah, I mean, they have to respond positively, don't they?
05:08I mean, it's obviously a bit of disappointment,
05:10the final being at home, they're not going to take part in it.
05:12But now it's about getting down to the bread and butter Bundesliga.
05:16Points are up for grabs.
05:17They need to try and extend their lead at the top,
05:20put pressure on there because with games obviously running out,
05:23you need to make sure that they maintain that pressure and that gap at the top.
05:26Put back peering in here for Serlo Conte,
05:29Urbic's first test.
05:32Taken here in his 10th game for the club in all competitions there,
05:34winter signing from second tier curl.
05:38Here is Serlo Conte, who is the league's second quickest man ever clocked.
05:42That record set for him is PB at Bayern in defeat in December.
05:47He made mark of Urbic's starters at Bayern's standing goalkeeper.
05:59Well, I think it's been a difficult one for him in terms of,
06:01I don't think he really expected to be playing as many games as he has been.
06:04So it's a real shift.
06:06First and foremost, he's young.
06:07He's come to a massive club.
06:09Obviously, Cologne's a big club, but it's not the same as Bayern.
06:12Pressure, expectations are different.
06:14So that's been difficult.
06:15I think sometimes you need a little bit more time to readjust
06:18and he's just been thrown in the mix, hasn't he?
06:20Peringa, Conte sprints.
06:23A little bigger way.
06:25Yeah, so that needs a little bit of time sometimes to adjust.
06:28And I mean, the fact he hasn't kept a clean sheet yet in the Bundesliga for Bayern
06:31is a difficult one.
06:33Not necessarily a reflection on him, but it just states that, you know, it's tough.
06:37It is really difficult to come into a big, big club
06:40and try to hit the ground running, especially as a young goalkeeper.
06:45That's Kevin Muller.
06:47In league games, his 300th game in goal for Heidenheim today.
06:51He's not missed a minute of their two seasons playing at this level.
06:55He and Meinke are both players who've not missed a single second
06:57of the club's top-flight existence.
07:02Here's Eric Dyer.
07:05From the start, no Min Jae Kim, who's been left out by Kompany today.
07:08Melize chasing it.
07:11Well, Muller, was he in or outside the box there?
07:13It was very close.
07:14I think he did well.
07:15I think initially he felt that he had to come out of the box,
07:18clear the danger,
07:19but in the end realised he could just step back in his goal line
07:22in his eight-yard box and just take that ball without handballing.
07:26Leimer, way there by the head of Gimba for Heidenheim.
07:30Gimba again.
07:32Goes Pieringer here.
07:34Gnabry's touch.
07:36Harry Kane's presence here for Bayern.
07:38Kane, Olize.
07:40Opens up here almost for Michael Olize.
07:43Comes back out now to Konrad Leimer for Bayern.
07:45He'll keep the pressure on.
07:46Stanezic.
07:56Bayern have dropped points on three of the last five matchdays
07:59in the Bundesliga season.
08:01Here's Kimmich with a giveaway met by Schupner.
08:05A clever Pieringer who players have tried to all come deep
08:08to involve themselves in the general play as well, the number 18.
08:10Minka.
08:20Back with Kevin Muller.
08:26After match day two, Heidenheim were the league leaders
08:28won their first two games.
08:29They've won only one of the last 25, though.
08:33That's why they are where they are in that third-bottom place,
08:36the current relegation playoff spot.
08:40Seven points adrift of safety, which is where Zankpaoli sit in the table.
08:48Come on.
08:53Here's Eric Dier on his first Bayern goal at Inter on Wednesday night.
08:58Leimer.
08:59You say it's flinch?
09:01You see it's often no way teams that are getting promoted,
09:03have a really good season.
09:05And then it's that next season.
09:06The expectations now are different.
09:08They're not necessarily about survival.
09:09It's about, OK, can you progress?
09:11Can you actually do better than you did the season before?
09:14And then all of a sudden, it's the pressure.
09:17And players find it difficult to deal with.
09:22Schupner.
09:23Did lose some big players, of course, in the summer, too.
09:25Klein, Dean, Stendicci, and Bester all moved on to bigger clubs.
09:29It's been tough to replace that quality, that number of goals.
09:34They scored those three players 30 of their 50 league goals last season.
09:37The three I mentioned.
09:39Big players to fill it on their budget, too.
09:41Hard to do that, Mark.
09:42Yeah, because you've got to look for bargains.
09:44You've got to try and find players that not necessarily other clubs have on their radar,
09:48bigger clubs, clubs that obviously have the upper hand when trying to recruit.
09:52It's about trying to be really, really savvy in the transfer window,
09:55and that makes it really difficult.
09:57Tollise on Lima.
10:00Josua Kimmich for Bayern.
10:02The national captain.
10:04Today, Bayern's captain.
10:06Here is Stanisic.
10:07Sorry, Pavlovich.
10:10To Guerrero.
10:15Kimmich.
10:16Eric Dyer.
10:20Kick-off 18 degrees, a proper spring day.
10:23Here's Harry Kane.
10:25Kane looking forward to getting there.
10:27We didn't quite get the pass right there, Harry Kane.
10:28Yeah, it wasn't far off the mark, was it?
10:31I think it's interesting this time of year when the temperature does change like that.
10:35This is this opportunity.
10:36Yeah, you can see there.
10:38Inside, just does enough and knows exactly where he is.
10:44But it's this time of year when the weather changes.
10:47Even though it might be only a couple of degrees,
10:49it actually has a big impact on the players
10:50because it's a sudden change in the temperature
10:52and the exposure
10:54and what that takes out of you in the game.
10:56Look at Conte's sprint here for Heidenheim.
11:00You can see the players to get him in behind whenever they can.
11:03Yeah, there was just lack of communication there for Bayern.
11:05And since Dyer and Kimmich, I think, both getting in each other's way
11:08should have been dealt with very, very comfortably.
11:11He has lost his speed record to Jean-Matteo Bauja of Frankfurt in the last few weeks
11:22but here's the league's second quickest man ever clocked.
11:30Here goes Leimer.
11:31That's Pavlovich for Leimer again.
11:35The run for Olize.
11:36Dropped in towards Coman.
11:39Olize with 10 assists.
11:40The league's joint best with Florian Vietz of Leverkusen.
11:44Leimer's goal last weekend to level up the Klassiker.
11:55It's a plesating game in Munich last Saturday.
11:59Away here by Meinke for Heidenheim.
12:02Blown away by Frankfurt in their last league match on Sunday.
12:05A very timid display going down 3-0 in Frankfurt last weekend.
12:10Here's Traore though for Heidenheim.
12:11Traore.
12:15As Schöpner.
12:17Blocked away.
12:17Now Kormann can break away.
12:20It's options here.
12:22London here is Guerrero.
12:32Didger and Leipakousen really close here of Fortnite to go in that 1-0 defeat.
12:41It's Gnabry.
12:43Gnabry on to Michael Olize.
12:46Olize Kane.
12:47Lovely.
12:48It's Gnabry.
12:49Great chance.
12:51And the flag was up anyway.
12:53A really good movement there from Bayern there.
12:55Just couldn't hold himself on the line there.
12:57On the side.
12:58Gnabry, yeah, you can see there.
12:59Just strays offside.
13:00But initially, really good, well played.
13:03Good save in the end as well from Miller.
13:05Makes himself nice and big.
13:08Gnabry's goal last weekend was really gorgeous.
13:12That superb slalom run to that stage make it 2-1 against Dortmund.
13:16Portugal 8th was playing in the second tier with Paderborn last season.
13:22This is his first crack at 28 at the top division.
13:24Born in Hamburg.
13:27That was last season.
13:28The second tier's third quickest man.
13:30His brother was the quickest.
13:32Playing to Braunschweig.
13:42Guerrero here for Gnabry.
13:43It's a terrific run by Gnabry.
14:13Inwards, Coman on the scene.
14:16Yeah, just couldn't get the pass right, could he?
14:19Lionel was very fortunate initially.
14:20Lost the ball very easily.
14:22But managed to regain it.
14:23And that's where that counter comes from.
14:25Dorsch.
14:27Space to move into for Traore here for Heidenheim.
14:33They have to make their chances count today.
14:35The team on the third bottom.
14:36It is true, David Untgoliath, David and Goliath in the Bundesliga, these two clubs, couldn't be more different.
14:47Gimbal.
14:48Busch into Schupner.
15:02With ballkeeper Kevin Muller.
15:04High one here again.
15:06They look to use that acceleration of Conte.
15:08Urbeck does have it.
15:13In that instance there, the game was too stretched for that ball over the top.
15:17Just wasn't enough room in the end to run in behind.
15:21And Urbeck does well just to come out.
15:22Just has to be a bit careful.
15:23The pitch.
15:24The weather.
15:26The pitch obviously must be still a little bit zippy.
15:28I'm assuming they would have ordered the pitch before the game.
15:31Just to give it that extra little bit of zip.
15:33This is Stanisic.
15:38On to Eric Dyer.
15:44Kolize.
15:46Kolize Kane on the turn.
15:50Takes on Gimbal.
15:54Kane.
15:55Back now to Josip Stanisic.
15:57Pavlovich.
16:00Coman.
16:03Can they pick a way through Heidenheim here?
16:09It's Stanisic again for Bayern.
16:17Eric Dyer.
16:20To feed Michael Lise.
16:26Lise, Coman.
16:27Now Gnabry on the scene again for Bayern.
16:29Drops his shoulder.
16:31And Robin Coman once more.
16:33The team's meeting for the fifth time in senior football.
16:37The previous four have seen an astonishing 26 goals.
16:41Average of six and a half goals a game when these sides meet.
16:44In Ligue 1 Cup.
16:46It's a 4-2 Bayern win in the home match back in December.
16:50Here's Harry Kane.
16:52Kane's shot.
16:52It's blistering.
16:53It's blistering from Harry Kane.
16:56One chance.
16:57One shot.
16:591-0 Bayern.
17:00Harry Kane's 24th goal of the Bundesliga season.
17:03Yeah, great finish from Harry Kane there.
17:05The ball into him was really good to his feet.
17:07Quick turn.
17:08And he just picks his spot, doesn't he?
17:09Looks to find that corner and just rifles it into the bottom corner.
17:13Now, very good finish from Harry Kane.
17:17It's all about the movement.
17:18Quick movement.
17:19At least he's ball into Kane.
17:21He's got space.
17:22On the turn.
17:23There's three high-known players around him.
17:25He just, he knows exactly where he's aiming for it.
17:28It's through the legs there.
17:29That's it.
17:30So often we see it from Harry Kane.
17:32That shot, the timing is perfect.
17:34He waits for the defender.
17:35That is conscious.
17:36He knows what he's doing.
17:38Defender opens his legs.
17:39Muller just can't get enough on him.
17:4260 games and 60 goals for Kane in the Bundesliga.
17:4524 for this season.
17:48And 1-0 here in the first half after what?
17:5230 minutes of play.
17:53Kane on the mark.
17:54For Bayern.
17:59Krancic.
18:00Driven cross.
18:01All big flicks it away.
18:05And the 8% scoring chance.
18:07Kane with that rocket shot on the speed gun.
18:101-1-9 kilometers an hour.
18:13That was not for saving from Harry Kane.
18:15Yeah, a difficult one for the goalkeeper.
18:17Kevin Muller there.
18:17Because he's got three defenders in front of him.
18:19He probably doesn't see it until it goes through one of his defender's legs.
18:22And by that time, with that pace on the ball, it's almost too late.
18:26And all he can do is get some fingertips on it.
18:28But not enough to push it wide.
18:30Here's Guerrero.
18:31Kane again.
18:32Kane.
18:33It's Olizé.
18:34Olizé twisting and turning.
18:38And the shot that Guerrero held by Muller is a busy man suddenly in Heidenheim's goal.
18:42Yeah, he wanted it on his left foot, didn't he?
18:43He tried to get around to hit the outside of his left foot.
18:46And in the end, it's just quite a tame shot.
18:49It's an easy one for Muller to get behind and keep hold of.
18:56They've had an awful run of fixtures, Heidenheim.
18:59They've, with this game, played the top three from the current season.
19:03Back to back.
19:04They lost to Lieberkussen and that loss in Frankfurt last week.
19:07Now they take on the league leaders, Bayern.
19:10Not being kindly able to fix your computer this season to FC Heidenheim in the run-in.
19:16Well, it's not kind when you are struggling for survival, isn't it?
19:19If you have the points of the ball beforehand, it means, obviously, you've played other teams before.
19:23It's just the way that the end of the season ends up.
19:25And as players, you're often looking ahead at those fixtures.
19:28And you've got to try to manoeuvre your way around it and thinking,
19:32OK, we need points at this stage.
19:34And then, obviously, if you haven't got them, that's just the pressure grows so much more
19:38at the back end of the season.
19:40The way to last season's runners up Stuttgart next before their last three games.
19:44Borkum here in the relegation fight currently along with a trip to Union Berlin.
19:49They end up at home to Werder Bremen the last match day.
19:53Get the impression their last two home games are going to really make or break where they finish
19:57in terms of that relegation playoff position.
20:00Here's Josua Kimmich.
20:01Derrero for Coman.
20:06Bayern's last four league games, by the way.
20:08Mainz at home, Leipzig away, Gladbach at home, and then away to Hoffenheim on the last match day.
20:12I mean, the beauty of the playoff position, that third position, I mean, at this stage,
20:17you can see that if you've got the traditional three down, three up,
20:20these three teams are almost out of it.
20:22There's almost nothing to play for for some of them.
20:24So, therefore, with that playoff position, it's always up for grabs,
20:27and it was right to the last game of the season.
20:29Here is Eric Dyer.
20:35Here is Eric Dyer.
20:37Harry Kane, 1660 is a new record in the Bundesliga, 60 goals, 60 matches.
21:01They keep on coming for Harry Kane as regular as clockwork.
21:06Crazy stat here that he hasn't won a trophy yet.
21:10Not yet.
21:11Not yet.
21:12But that's the thing, you know, he's got, he's breaking records after records,
21:15but that trophy just eludes him.
21:17This season, obviously, is his best opportunity to win at least the Bundesliga-Charles,
21:21and obviously Bayern have a great start in this game.
21:24We'll give him another opportunity to build a gap between him and Leverkusen.
21:30No team's ever lost a six-point lead at this stage of the season in terms of the Meister-Charles.
21:35It'll be a nine-point gap overnight here with Leverkusen playing in Zankt-Pauli tomorrow afternoon.
21:43Here's Pavlovich.
21:46Pavlovich, Kane, little touch on, all easy looks to find Gnabry.
21:54Just straight and offside anyway, wasn't even looking for the ball anymore.
21:59At least they didn't realise that, the ball in again.
22:01They're looking for those quick sort of interchange passes,
22:04those little flick on one touch football, which, when they come off,
22:07it's almost impossible to play against at the moment.
22:09It's just not quite working for them.
22:11Here's Conte.
22:15A throw for Bayern.
22:17In terms of Bayern's away form this season,
22:20only Leverkusen by a single point have taken more on their travels
22:24in the current campaign.
22:27Lost just once away this season,
22:29only by 10 minutes in December.
22:38But they have shown they can be sometimes against the smaller teams vulnerable.
22:42They, of course, lost to Borkum at home last month, 3-2,
22:45in a really pulsating game in March.
22:48They have dropped points on three of the last five match days,
22:53so they're not infallible, Bayern, but a good start here.
22:55Kane's goal, the difference.
22:57I think they've managed this game so far.
23:04I mean, Heidenheim, in fairness,
23:05haven't really put enough pressure on Bayern.
23:07It's a game that Bayern have to be careful
23:09when they don't get too relaxed and feeling comfortable in control.
23:13That's when they could come unstuck.
23:15For Heidenheim, there's so much still riding on the remainder of the season.
23:20They need points.
23:21You know, they can put a little bit more pressure on Bayern here.
23:23It's almost like a bit of a free hit for them.
23:25There's no expectation to get a point out of this game.
23:28Well, that came from 2-0 down to win the fixture here a year ago.
23:32There's Gnabry.
23:33Gnabry passes through and gets Leimer away.
23:36Conrad Leimer for 2-0.
23:38A chance he was not going to refuse.
23:42Absolutely brilliant ball from Gnabry there.
23:44Absolutely magnificent in the path of Leimer.
23:47Leimer does really well.
23:48He has time just to even take a couple of touches,
23:51open his body up.
23:52He deceives the goalkeeper.
23:54It's a nice finish.
23:55Really good finish.
23:56Really cool, calm.
23:58That ball from Sgt.
23:59Gnabry.
23:59We'll have to see.
24:00I think he looks he's onside by quite a long way, actually.
24:03That's a perfectly timed run.
24:05Has all the time in the world.
24:07Really good finish.
24:09And his second league goal in Bayern colours,
24:12that's for Conrad Leimer.
24:14Scored versus former side Leipzig in a 5-1 home win back in December.
24:17And this one, taken with real precision for the Austrian to double Bayern's first half money.
24:24It'll be as it stands, a nine-point cushion overnight at the summit.
24:28That's what you need for Bayern.
24:31It's about taking your opportunities.
24:33Because there's no doubt they're going to get opportunities in this game.
24:35It's about taking them.
24:36And it doesn't look like there's any hangovers from that defeat,
24:39or the knocking out of the Champions League, might I say, midweek.
24:43And they've got down to business.
24:45And they've started this game really, really well.
24:48This line had cleaned through a well-taken chance to give Bayern a two-goal breakwater now on Heidenheim.
24:54As I say, they did come back from this scoreline to win 3-2 a year ago,
24:57but Bayern are different teams this end.
24:59And, of course, different season two for Heidenheim.
25:02Check now on the live table.
25:10So, as I say, this would give overnight Bayern a buffer of nine points over Leverkusen.
25:16And that game of Zankt-Pauli tomorrow afternoon is going to be huge now for Alonso's men.
25:19If they were to drop points there, nine points in the gap into the last four match days,
25:24it is a huge gap then to try and bridge, Mark.
25:27Yeah.
25:28The thing is, they've had numerous opportunities throughout the season.
25:30And, you know, it just so happens that when either sides have dropped points,
25:34certainly when Bayern have dropped points, then Leverkusen generally follows suit.
25:38And this game, obviously, at this moment in time, Bayern are in real control of this game.
25:43And you expect them to see this one overnight, even though we're only 21 minutes into this game,
25:48just the way that the game has started, Bayern's control for Leverkusen.
25:52They've been disappointed, found themselves in opportunities to pick up points,
25:55close those gaps, and just haven't had it this season.
25:58Stanovic, at the bottom, of course, Heidenham's position not improving.
26:04That gap's seven points to safety.
26:06They are for now in the playoff spot with Borkum not too far behind Kiel as well
26:11in automatic places.
26:12So they are not guaranteed 16th by any stretch.
26:16They could still go down automatically from this division quite easily.
26:19Yeah, that's what the beauty of that playoff position is.
26:22He's bottom three.
26:23He's still right in it.
26:24Line of the Gnabry.
26:26Gnabry's cross.
26:27Oh, and somehow Harry Kane was a metre out.
26:33He's human after all.
26:35Unbelievable chance.
26:36Huge chance of Harry Kane.
26:38You'd expect him just to simply get his head on the end of this one.
26:42I think he just gets slightly caught, doesn't he, a little bit there?
26:45I'm not sure.
26:45He should have gone on his foot.
26:47Bad decision in the end.
26:49That's what's cost him.
26:52He's only scored 1660.
26:54It should be 61.
26:58Big chance.
26:59Really big chance.
27:00I think maybe the deflection caught him out a little bit.
27:03That slowed the pace of the ball down maybe a fraction.
27:05And that's where he's able to not get the timing right on that header.
27:11And the foul here gives a free kick to Heidenheim.
27:15So Leimler's goal to make it 2-0.
27:17Here is Franz Kretzig, the unknown player from Bayern.
27:19And his name at the club with that sensational pre-season goalbless
27:24is Liverpool a couple of years ago, which went viral.
27:30The home bench looking rather crestfallen
27:32with the way the game has gone so far.
27:35So in the background there, another Bayern loan player,
27:37a pal Vanna on the bench this afternoon.
27:42So Dorsch, another ex-Bayern man in their ranks
27:45on the free kick here with Kretzig.
27:46And by Dorsch, met by Meinke, up goes Conte.
27:56Busch, it's too high for Meinke.
28:01I'll tell you what's difficult for the goalkeeper there
28:03is that the sunlight, the shade in the sunlight
28:06right across that six-yard box.
28:08And it's difficult when you're on your line
28:09and the ball's coming from the sun into that shade,
28:11even though it's such a small area,
28:13it's so difficult to get your eyes to adjust to it.
28:17Leimer, Michael Olize.
28:22All right, the tight.
28:23It's been smuggled out here,
28:24but only as far away as Eric Dier for Bayern.
28:27All right, in total charge here
28:28with only a quarter of the game gone.
28:31Gnabry for Pavlovich.
28:34And Conrad Leimer again.
28:37Olize, it's just knocked away by Marnon Busch.
28:40Pass for Bayern, who's just a little bit too close
28:44to the defender there.
28:46Leisler in the end, just tried to take their first time
28:48around the defender.
28:50It's just not enough room.
28:52No question Bayern had their sights set on that
28:55fairytale final of the Champions League
28:56on their own stadium in May.
28:59In the Allianz Arena, but it's not to be,
29:01won't happen.
29:03And it's the response, the wounded Bayern,
29:04often the most dangerous Bayern,
29:07as we're seeing so far this afternoon.
29:08Corner for the Rekordmeister.
29:17In there, Harry Kane is lurking.
29:20Very dire, just behind him.
29:23In goes that Bayern corner.
29:25And the chance comes and goes again.
29:26Harry Kane on the end of it.
29:27Again, the header is off target.
29:29Wow, another massive chance for Harry Kane.
29:33It's a free header.
29:34Inside this, just on the edge of the six-yard box.
29:37Just can't control it.
29:38That is just so un-Harry Kane-like.
29:40He does have the league's second-highest XG
29:44behind Ugo Ekitike of Antark Frankfurt this season.
29:5224 league goals, more competitions, 36, but
29:55he's got a hat-trick already today.
29:57Yeah, big chance.
29:58Normally, you'd expect him to have already had a hat-trick.
30:01The way he's prolific in front of goal,
30:03they're just two really big misses for his level,
30:06for his standards.
30:08Schupner, Busch.
30:10Contest flick towards Pierringer.
30:12Here's Lyman, though, for Bayern.
30:13Well, he's it.
30:23Kompany applauding his team's endeavours so far.
30:27As I say, no team has ever lost a six-point lead
30:30to not be champions from this stage of the season.
30:35See the stats so far already mark five blind shots
30:38for Haydn and nothing after 25 minutes.
30:40Yes, and it is a complete dominance at the moment
30:44of possession, dictating play, chances created.
30:48Obviously, the scoreline needs to be known in football.
30:51On one goal, Haydn get one back.
30:54The completion of the game can change really quickly.
30:56Bayern have to try and make sure that they secure
30:59this dominant scoring on the goal,
31:01and then almost the game is done with.
31:03But until then, Haydn have got hope.
31:05In three of the four meetings in League and Cup
31:07before this one, they had come back from two goals down.
31:09They didn't always win or draw the games,
31:11but they did come back from two down at various points
31:13in those matches, Haydn, Haydn, all under Frank Schmidt's coaching.
31:17But today, just get the feeling,
31:19the way Bayern are playing today,
31:21the mood they're in,
31:23just appear to be a team with a real point to prove
31:26this afternoon, given what happened
31:27at Inter in midweek.
31:30Yeah, sometimes you kind of feel that teams will be a little bit sluggish,
31:38maybe feeling sorry for themselves a little bit,
31:41trying to pick themselves up after such a big disappointment
31:43and, you know, a tough game away from home
31:46against a club like Haydn,
31:47we're fighting survival.
31:49The pitch is tight, it's warm.
31:50You know, it's draining.
31:54Bayern have just been really good at the beginning of this game.
31:57They've started well, positively.
31:58Players have been up for it.
32:03This fellow here on Jan Schupner gives the home team a free kick.
32:07Should mention, of course,
32:08Bayern's still missing a number of key players.
32:11Neuer Meccano, Jamal Muziana.
32:12But, yeah, I mean, Neuer,
32:15if you look at Neuer, it's an interesting one,
32:16even though he's club captain,
32:17his presence, experience,
32:19and his save ratio is one of the worst in the league.
32:22He hasn't necessarily had a particularly good season.
32:24So in terms of do you miss having not Manuel Neuer,
32:28and that's a difficult one to answer
32:29because I would never have thought I'd be saying,
32:31does Bayern really miss him this season?
32:33I don't think they really have so far.
32:35But Muzi Alic, for me, is the biggest miss.
32:38He's such a quality player.
32:39His relationship with Elise, I think, has been great
32:42and also Harry Kane.
32:43He's the one that I think is probably they've missed him,
32:46certainly when it comes to European football, Champions League.
32:49Traore.
32:51This is Marlon Busch.
32:56Adrian Beck for Niklas Dorsch.
32:59Kretzik.
33:02Lots of options here.
33:04Move on to Beck.
33:09Gimba.
33:12So Bayern two, clear.
33:15Kane and Lyme are the goals.
33:17They could have had more.
33:19It's been a very imposing start here to the game by the league leaders.
33:25A bit long by Kevin Muller.
33:27It's a good one, too, to get Olise away.
33:38Michael Olise!
33:40And Muller makes the save.
33:42Not gone yet, the danger.
33:44Olise still for Bayern.
33:47Sets up Kane again.
33:48Blocked by Busch.
33:49Yeah, it's a big chance from Olise.
33:51He does everything right, other than the final execution.
33:55He dummies.
33:55Muller goes down.
33:56Instead, he plays it straight where Muller is.
33:59Just a poor finish in the end from Olise.
34:02He has scored eight league goals this season.
34:06Michael Olise, assist him ten.
34:08A bit of Kane's pass to get him away was superb, but here couldn't beat Muller.
34:12I mean, the dummy is excellent.
34:14Muller's going down.
34:15And then he needs to either dink it over him or take it past him a little bit.
34:19Take it back onto his right.
34:21Instead, he just tries to still slot it through him.
34:23There's just no room.
34:24The West London-born, these days, international for France.
34:31Got his first French goal in the March games against Croatia.
34:34A superb free kick in the Nations League.
34:38As I say, for Bayern are handing 18 league goals in what's been a superb first season in German football.
34:44It doesn't surprise me.
34:45I mean, he's a phenomenal player.
34:46He was brilliant in the Premier League with Crystal Palace.
34:50The only questions were his injury records at times,
34:52but since coming to Bayern, he's been, again, exceptional.
34:55Gone to another level, playing with better players around him,
34:58and I think that's where we'll just see him get better and better.
35:02Muller here for Dorsch.
35:04He had six years on Bayern's books.
35:05His first team record was one game and one goal.
35:09Scored in a game with Eintracht Frankfurt seven years ago this month under Juppeinkas.
35:15On the day when he made lots of changes.
35:16He was then released to come here before moving on again.
35:24Came back as the club's record buy in the summer from Augsburg for just over three million euros,
35:28Niklas Dorsch.
35:34This is Gimba.
35:37Into Schotner.
35:38Kretzik again.
35:51Just going to show you how small a club height they really are
35:54in terms of three million euros is their record signing.
35:56Today's money that's in the game,
35:59obviously always on a budget,
36:01always managing their funds very, very carefully.
36:03There's a small sum in today's transfer budgets or certainly transfer dealings.
36:11The Sol Tim Kleindienst for a club record incoming seven million to Gladbach in the summer.
36:16As I say, to lose those three players last season,
36:19Dinkchi was on loan here from Werder Bremen then.
36:21But Kleindienst and Jan Niklas Best went to Benfica.
36:25Those were three enormous players,
36:27big players to replace for a club,
36:29a squad of Heidenheim stature.
36:31who did so much in that remarkable eighth place
36:33and a European finish
36:34in their first ever top division season last year.
36:41Here is Zapieringer.
36:44Looks for Traore.
36:50Busch.
36:52Omar Traore for Heidenheim.
36:54Takes on Guerrero.
36:57Traore still here, got the cross in.
36:59That'll be a corner.
37:00Yeah, he does really well, Traore.
37:02He does, first thing is he's touched the ball out wide on the touchline.
37:05When he's got a little bit of space,
37:06Guerrero then doesn't want to engage,
37:08doesn't want to dive in
37:09because he just knows Traore's got such pace.
37:11A little bit of his drop in the hips,
37:13dummy,
37:14just leave him out of the game.
37:15So he's got to try and manage him all the way.
37:17So it was good defending in the end.
37:20A little big waiting still
37:21for his first clean sheet in the Bundesliga
37:23as a Bayern goalkeeper.
37:24He's kept Lieber-Kussner in the Champions League.
37:29Corner here for FC Heidenheim.
37:33Can they land a blow here?
37:35Land a glove on Bayern to get back into the game.
37:38In goes the corner.
37:39It's a good one too and almost met by Sir Luke Conte.
37:42Big chance, really big chance from Conte.
37:46Again, I'm not sure whether it is that sunlight shade
37:49that possibly have put him out.
37:51You can see there, he's in the sun.
37:53As he tries to have the ball,
37:55just comes in the shade.
37:56That is so difficult to deal with.
38:00And he scored a super header away to Hearts
38:02in the Conference League back in the autumn, Conte.
38:06Only league goal came here
38:07in the win versus Holstein Kiel last month.
38:11Here's Busch with Kormann for company.
38:18Only by Kevin Muller.
38:23Adrian Beck, Schupner for Dorsch.
38:26Now Kredzik.
38:31Adrian Beck wide now to Marvin Pieringer.
38:35Pieringer's cross, a good one.
38:38Kept alive here.
38:38Now by Truro, he's sending right back in.
38:42A little drop to Pieringer here for Adrian Beck,
38:44who thinks about it.
38:46Beck took on the shot.
38:48Too far wide.
38:50Yeah, through a crowd of players there.
38:52Beck shot from the distance.
38:55It's not bad.
38:56As Irving there, scrambling to try and get across.
38:58It does go wide comfortably enough for the goal kick in the end.
39:04Nearly poked in by Jan Schupner, too,
39:06who is there to just chuck a foot towards it.
39:12So 2-0.
39:13Bynes lead Harry Kane and Conrad Leimer.
39:16That's risky.
39:18Yeah, it's a dangerous ball.
39:19There's no reason once I'm going to play that ball from Obeck there.
39:23It's just so much pressure on the ball.
39:28Leimer.
39:30Oh, it's a painful one.
39:32Leimer caught by Gimba.
39:33Now a card coming here.
39:36Gimba, yellow card.
39:38Now that means he will not play the next game.
39:41Gimba cautions.
39:45Nice challenge here on Leimer.
39:46It did look an ugly one.
39:49Yeah.
39:50I thought it was worse at normal speed.
39:52I mean, he's just going for the clearance, isn't he?
39:54It's just...
39:54And you can see Leimer just gets across him in the end.
39:57It takes a bit of a blow, but it's not as bad as it initially looked like.
40:01I think the referee is absolutely right.
40:02Just a yellow card.
40:04Chance here for some quick coaching from Van Sohn Company.
40:07So Leimer's okay.
40:12No damage done to him.
40:15As I say, his goal today, his second league goal having joined from Leipzig ahead of last season.
40:20The Austrian score against Shakhtar Donetsk as well in the Champions League back in December in Gelsenkirchen.
40:29So Kimmich on the free kick for Bayern, who have this two-goal cushion.
40:35Polize.
40:37Kane.
40:38Kane.
40:39Great ball in.
40:41And here now, it's Korman.
40:43Angled tight.
40:44But he finds the target anyway.
40:48It's a perfect buy in first half.
40:51No ifs.
40:52No buts.
40:53They're going nine points clear at the summit tonight.
40:57Yeah, really good finish from a real cute angle there from Kinsley Korman.
41:00I thought the chance was gone.
41:02As the ball ricochets off the chance, goalkeeper, I think, gets caught possibly in the sunlight.
41:07It's a fantastic ball from Harry Kane initially into the path.
41:12Is it Guerrero, is it there yet?
41:13It's Guerrero, yeah.
41:14Yeah, he just couldn't get his left foot around it.
41:16And Korman, I thought maybe he'd taken the wrong line.
41:19Just sneaks into that near post there.
41:21Miller will be disappointed.
41:22And it just hits with sheer pace that beats him.
41:28A marker being laid down to Lieberkusen here in the title race.
41:33Look at us.
41:34This is what we can do.
41:36We want to reclaim the Meisterschala.
41:39We will, they say, reclaim the Meisterschala.
41:45Thomas Müller's team lead here by three goals to nil.
41:49And they right now are on easy street in Heidenheim.
41:53Yeah, I mean, I think it's a fair scoreline at this stage of the game.
41:57Could have even been a lot worse for Heidenheim.
41:59The danger for Bayern was not getting that third goal, really,
42:03and allowing Heidenheim, you know, saw a couple of half chances.
42:07Conte had that chance in the six-yard box,
42:08just didn't get his head on the end of it.
42:10And they're the ones that could potentially change the game.
42:13But for Bayern now to go three up,
42:15just really confirming their dominance in this first 45 minutes.
42:19Dier on here to Lima.
42:22Harry Kane.
42:27Olize, I think, as well, so far, Mark.
42:29Kane's passing range has really caught the eye in the first half.
42:33Yeah, I mean, that pass in the Guerrero was exceptional, really.
42:36It was.
42:37And at times, you know, we see Harry Kane does drop into those sort of deeper-lying positions.
42:42Sometimes you just have to get back up front.
42:43That's where you are.
42:44You're most dangerous.
42:45You're the one.
42:46You're the goal scorer.
42:47It's the movement.
42:48That's what drags players out of positions.
42:50Harry Kane coming to deep defenders need to go with him.
42:52He creates space for players like Guerrero to run into.
42:55So Bayern three goals clear.
43:05We can see the attacking zones from Bayern so far.
43:08You can see their right-hand side's been their most fruitful so far in the first half.
43:13It's the Olize flank.
43:14And Olize has really led Heidenhammer.
43:16Merry dance so far, Mark.
43:17Well, I think, interestingly, we thought that Olize would be more in that ten role.
43:22But he's actually come out.
43:23And he feels like he must be more comfortable playing out wider.
43:26And Serge Gnabry, more often than not, is in that kind of midfield-deeper number ten role.
43:31And Koeman out wide on the left.
43:33And it's no surprise that Olize is the one that's more often on the ball.
43:37Because every time he gets the ball, it's either he's going to take a player on down the sideline
43:40or he's going to come back inside and whip across him for one of his teammates to get on the end of.
43:46Thomas Muller waiting in reserve.
43:47He would come on today to make appearance 4-9-9 in the Bundesliga.
43:52Here is Olize back to Konrad Leimer.
43:58Eric Dier for Bayern.
44:02Stanisic.
44:04Guerrero.
44:06Into Kane again.
44:08Kane linking play well today for Bayern.
44:12Leimer up to Gnabry.
44:14Gnabry.
44:16Olize.
44:18Locked and then cleared away by Patrick Mainka.
44:20Up to Beck.
44:22And Dorsch.
44:24Now Conte a foot race here, but Ulbic should win it.
44:28Good goalkeeping.
44:29Really good coming out there.
44:31Identifying that area.
44:32That's an area you can control.
44:34Really nice high line.
44:35No real pressure there.
44:38Deals with the danger.
44:39Stanisic.
44:45Josua Kimmich.
44:47He was a star man in Italy's, in Germany's recent win over Italy in the Nations League quarterfinals when he had hand across the two legs in all five goals they scored in that victory.
44:56Here comes Guerrero now for Gnabry.
45:00Way beyond Dorsch for now.
45:02It's come back to Josua Kimmich.
45:05Conrad Leimer thinks about it.
45:09Olize.
45:10Leimer's gone down here.
45:11And a card coming.
45:15Another card.
45:16I don't think Niklas Dorsch was it.
45:18Yeah, it looked like.
45:20I mean, it's just a bit of frustration, wasn't it, in the end, I think.
45:23To see there that Bayern are in total control.
45:27He's just slightly.
45:28There's nothing but frustration.
45:29It's just a slight mistiming, actually.
45:33Well, Dorsch, six years of Bayern man.
45:35Just that one game in the first team.
45:37Got a card now.
45:38Four to go with one red in his season back here at Heidenheim.
45:42Well, Olize scored from this range for France against Croatia in the Nations League in March.
45:51So scored against Borkum in the league game back in October.
45:57This season for club and for country on free kicks.
46:00Olize has some pedigree.
46:04Kimmich there too.
46:05It's Olize.
46:07And Muller behind it.
46:09Yeah, not enough in him, wasn't it?
46:10It was a bit of a tame shot.
46:12Easy for the goal.
46:13Can he step across and gather?
46:16Pierringer.
46:17Just falls his way here, Pierringer.
46:21Play where Don.
46:22Away comes Leimer now to Bayern in business with Jozef Stanisic on the ball now as well.
46:28Pavlovich.
46:31Leimer.
46:36Deception there by Kretzik.
46:37I've never seen that challenge.
46:42Yeah, it's a...
46:43Interesting attempt from Pierringer to try and win a foul.
46:49Obviously the referee wasn't buying into it at all.
46:52Gnabry's rather loose pass here has just put Bayern on the back foot a touch.
46:57This is Jozef Stanisic back to Jonas Urbic.
46:59A little bigger way again.
47:06A little bigger way again.
47:08Should drop to Meinka.
47:13Here comes Conrad Leimer.
47:19Olysef.
47:25Face back Kretzik.
47:28Olysef Develis in here for Leimer again.
47:31Leimer's shot.
47:32Gnabry's trickery.
47:33Torre clear but not too far away.
47:37Beck boxed in.
47:38Give it away again here to Olysef of Bayern who looked really up for this this afternoon.
47:42That's a foul.
47:43Another free kick.
47:44Another card as well coming.
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