Relief all round as Bayern's muted party brings Bundesliga curtain down | Andy Brassell

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Bayern Munich celebrated in front of empty stands at Wolfsburg, but completing the season safely is the biggest victory of all

There were no torrents of beer being thrown, no families invited onto the pitch and of course, no full stands. As Bayern Munich were presented with the Bundesliga trophy for the eighth time in a row on Saturday, it wasn’t even at their home but at vanquished Wolfsburg’s Volkswagen Arena. Bayern’s players made their own amusement, with Lucas Hernandez dummying his lift of the trophy to widespread laughter and Leon Goretzka’s teammates ambushing him and rolling up his sleeves, exposing his recently augmented biceps.

Bayern’s pleasure was real and their collective restraint reflected the fact that their season is not nearly over, with next Saturday’s DFB-Pokal final against Bayer Leverkusen and then the Champions League still to come as they take aim at the treble. Still, it was indicative of the sense of relief that “the only kind of Bundesliga possible for now,” as the DFL’s CEO Christian Seifert put it in his on-pitch address, had sailed relatively smoothly to its climax by the end of June.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/29/bayern-munich-muted-title-party-brings-bundesliga-curtain-down

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