Bayern had a taste of the humiliation it recently fed Tottenham with as they fell 5-1 to
Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.
they had walloped the Spurs 7-1 in a Champions League match.
As AFP reports, while also capturing coach Niko Kovac’s bewilderment, the defending champions Bayern, who had to play the majority of the match with 10 men following Jerome Boateng’s ninth-minute red card, are fourth, four points behind leaders Borussia Moenchengladbach who won 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen.
It was Bayern’s biggest league defeat since April 2009 when they also crashed 5-1 at Wolfsburg, who won the 2008/09 league title.
“I know how this business works — I am not naive,” replied Kovac when asked about his future.
The 48-year-old said he would process “the solid defeat” on the journey home and would “get angry and disappointed on the bus to Munich”.
However, Kovac weathered a difficult opening few months of last season to eventually win the league and cup double.
“I didn’t give up then and I won’t give up now,” he added defiantly.
After a shock 2-1 loss at home to Hoffenheim last month, Bayern suffered a second league defeat of the season which came following Boateng’s sending off for felling Frankfurt forward Goncalo Paciencia on the edge of the area.
Filip Kostic tapped home at the back post to open the scoring for the hosts on 25 minutes and Swiss midfielder Djibril Sow added a second eight minutes later from a Kostic cross to leave Bayern 2-0 down.
Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski brought his side back into the game eight minutes before the break when he bludgeoned his way through three defenders to fire home his 20th goal this season in all competitions.
Lewandowski’s 14th league goal extended his record of scoring in each of the first 10 Bundesliga games this season.
