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With Urbig on the pitch this season: 1 goal conceded every 61 mins played
With Neuer on the pitch this season: 1 goal conceded every 128 mins played
And guess who played against Viking, Osnabrück and Magdeburg.
Neuer needs to retire at the end of the season, because his body can't take it anymore. But he's still the undisputed #1 keeper in the squad this season, when available. For good reason.
Since #Urbig joined #FCBayern, in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League he has faced an average of 1.383 xGOT/90 and conceded 1.291 goals/90. He has, on average, conceded less than expected. That's good.
However during the same time, in the same competitions, #Neuer faced an average of 0.971 xGOT/90 and conceded 0.927 goals/90.
The biggest reason for Urbig conceding at a higher rate than Neuer is that he faces a bigger challenge, an extra 0.413 xGOT/90.
A lot of factors could be at play here, but one of the reasons may be that the defenders are more used to Neuer's playing style. Urbig should take this new Neuer injury as an opportunity to build more chemistry with his defenders and perhaps that xGOT/90 faced starts going down, and with that the goals conceded.
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Since #Urbig joined #FCBayern, in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League he has faced an average of 1.383 xGOT/90 and conceded 1.291 goals/90. He has, on average, conceded less than expected. That's good.
However during the same time, in the same competitions, #Neuer faced an average of 0.971 xGOT/90 and conceded 0.927 goals/90.
The biggest reason for Urbig conceding at a higher rate than Neuer is that he faces a bigger challenge, an extra 0.413 xGOT/90.
A lot of factors could be at play here, but one of the reasons may be that the defenders are more used to Neuer's playing style. Urbig should take this new Neuer injury as an opportunity to build more chemistry with his defenders and perhaps that xGOT/90 faced starts going down, and with that the goals conceded.
With Urbig on the pitch this season: 1 goal conceded every 61 mins played
With Neuer on the pitch this season: 1 goal conceded every 128 mins played
And guess who played against Viking, Osnabrück and Magdeburg.
Neuer needs to retire at the end of the season, because his body can't take it anymore. But he's still the undisputed #1 keeper in the squad this season, when available. For good reason.
🚨 BREAKING: Konrad #Laimer had to be sedated by the Bayern physio before the flight back to Munich could take off because he kept running up and down the aisle on the plane.
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#FCBayern players who are injured/doubtful for the match against Atlético:
- Neuer
- Urbig
- Musiala
- Olise
- Saibari
- Sapoko Ndiaye
- Gnabry
- Díaz
- Cardozo
The only players currently available who would not be playing out of position in the attacking positions:
- Karl (18)
- Binder (19), 15 pro mins
- Assomo (16), 0 pro mins
- Kane (33)
.@mano_bonke, @VTschirpke, October 9: "Jamal Musiala is expected back in the squad against Freiburg (October 25)
Max Eberl, October 17: "It won't be enough for Arsenal. He will slowly be eased back, but he will be back in October"
It's not. Recovery time for a pulled hamstring is 4-6 weeks. We're are perfectly within that time frame
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Bara Sapoko Ndiaye's appendectomy recovery has not been documented officially but the expectation is that he will miss the Magdeburg and Der Klassiker, and almost definitely the match against Atlético. He would be highly doubtful the following weekend against Mainz.
Most likely, he'll be back in the squad after the next international break.
It's D-Day.
Today is a very important day for our club. We will feel the difference of today's result in the future.
Players dream about winning this trophy, and there's nothing you and I can do to stop them from doing so. If Kane (or Olise, however unrealistic that may be) win the award, it's not just good PR for us from the aspect of fans and sale of merchandise, but more importantly it shows players either wanting to extend or to join us that it is possible to win the Ballon d'Or as a Bayern player, and that could be the difference between a player joining us or choosing another club, or him asking for more money to make up for this disadvantage.
On the other hand, this can really screw us if Kane doesn't win. It shows the whole world, including Olise who's wanted by Real Madrid, that no matter how much you deserve the award, it's simply next-to-impossible to win it as a Bayern player. How can we attract the very best or retain our best players if we've proven how unappreciated they will be by the world simply for playing for Bayern? Sure, maybe we can win them by offering them higher salaries, but then we're going to raise our salary bill all over, even for players who don't have a realistic chance of winning the Ballon d'Or, people like Laimer for example. And if we're spending more money on salaries than we should be, then it means we're going to get weaker sporting-wise.
3-3 is no doubt a result that falls below expectations. We can blame the pitch, the extra 1 day rest for our opponents, the fireworks let off during the night, the form of the players etc.
BUT: would the mood be better if we had gone 3-0 down and fought back to draw 3-3 at 90'?
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Georgi Kabakov will be the referee for Viking Stavanger vs FC Bayern.
Almost a year ago to the day, the Bulgarian received an indefinite suspension in his home country for inexplicably failing to intervene as VAR official when a player handled the ball with both hands before assisting.
The ban was lifted a month later.
He was then at the centre of further controversies and was omitted from appointments as recently as April 2026.
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The biggest talking point should be Carlos del Cerro Grande making the VAR again in a Bayern match after he had overstepped the limitations of his duties last season against PSG by ordering the ref to look at the screen for Davies's handball and thus indirectly claiming it was a "clear and obvious error" to not have awarded PSG a penalty virtually no pundit/expert agreed it should have been given.
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Based on exact chronological age, our average squad age was 26.88 on September 1, 2025. It climbed to 26.94 by February 2, 2026, and reached 27.02 by September 1, 2026.
These numbers don't corroborate Eberl's claim that the squad is getting younger.
Join our free #FCBayern predictions game at bayernforum.com/predictions.…!
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Today marks the 20th birthday of BayernForum.com, when it was made public and users started joining and posting the first posts.
The community was already existing and had started off as a spin-off from a forum off a @BSchweinsteiger unofficial fan site, making the community older than when both Facebook and Twitter were made public.
We are, to the best of our knowledge, the oldest international community of FC Bayern fans!
A special thanks goes out to everyone who has made up this community, because without you it is just software.
To many more decades!
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