Bayern suffer first Bundesliga defeat of season

“‘Gladbach did well”, Guardiola said of the first league goal Bayern had conceded after the break this season.

Fabian Johnson hails the positivity that Borussia Monchengladbach showed during their 3-1 win over Bayern Munich.

“That’s what’s marking us out at the moment and we’re getting our rewards for it. But even a win like this only gives us three points so we need to keep up the hard work and give 100 per cent again against Man City”. The problem became bigger after the first goal, that can happen, but we lost stability, and lost our midfield stability as they were pushing forward a lot more and we only had Xabi in middle and were countered against in ten minutes and got two goals against us.

“If you want to play well against Bayern you have to play with conviction and we did that”, said Schubert, who deployed an unusual system with three central defenders to contain Bayern’s game through the middle.

“After the goal we lost our order a bit”. As Pep mentioned, we were lucky in the first half but we also had a very good goalkeeper in Yan Sommer who kept us in the game.

Ribery rued Bayern’s missed chances in the first half with his side missing injured stars Arjen Robben, Douglas Costa, David Alaba and Thiago, but still fielded 11 internationals.

“It s a pity, but it s our own fault”, admitted Ribery.

Gladbach coach Andre Schubert praised his side s “sensational performance” while Guardiola said Bayern must learn from their mistakes.

“We will concentrate on the next game and hope to win”, he added as Ingolstadt can expect a Bayern backlash in Munich next Saturday.

Schubert says his side have nothing to fear from taking on all-conquering Bayern, who have lost just once this season when Arsenal beat them 2-0 in London in the Champions League.

The 54,010 capacity crowd at Borussia Park saw the reigning champion have largely the better of play before the break with Kingsley Coman rattling a post. Neville’s first challenge: dealing with high-flying league leader Barcelona.

And their defeat leaves French champions Paris Saint-Germain as the only unbeaten club in any of Europe’s traditional top five leagues.

The United States global put the result beyond doubt in the 68th minute, two minutes after Lars Stindl made it 2-0.