Bayern Munich head to Borussia Moenchengladbach for Friday’s Bundesliga match aiming to end their current trend of conceding the opening goal, which has angered head coach Hansi Flick into shouting fits in the dressing room.
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“I can also get loud — no problem — that’s something you learn over the years,” said Flick after giving his players a half-time roasting last Sunday against Mainz before they came roaring back to win 5–2 from two goals down.
“It’s sometimes all part of saying, quite clearly, what’s going on.”
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Bayern head to Borussia Park unbeaten in their last 20 games in all competitions.
Yet buried in that run are two revealing statistics.
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Flick’s team have conceded the first goal in their last eight league games, but fought back on all eight occasions for five wins and three draws.
Sloppy passes and “negligent” tackling led to them again trailing relegation candidates Mainz.
Flick insists Bayern’s first-half performance was “not what you expect from a top team”.
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After his sharp words in the dressing room, he switched Joshua Kimmich to right-back with Leon Goretzka shoring up midfield.
The effect was almost instantaneous as Kimmich scored their first goal, then set up Leroy Sane for the second as Mainz’s lead was wiped out in 11 minutes at the start of the second half.
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“The important thing is not to just scream blue murder, but to give the players something they can use to do better,” Flick said.
“It’s great to know that we can fight back, but our goal has to be that we take the lead,” said Kimmich, back after knee surgery last November.
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Moenchengladbach, who face Manchester City in the Champions League last 16 next month, are one of Bayern’s oldest Bundesliga rivals.
They last beat Bayern 2–1 at Borussia Park in December 2019 when Algerian free-kick specialist Ramy Bensebaini scored both goals.
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After suffering from Covid-19 in November, the 25-year-old defender made a brief comeback on Saturday when he helped protect a slender 1–0 lead at Arminia Bielefeld.
Head coach Marco Rose has said Bensebaini could feature on Friday.
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Saturday’s victory, thanks to Breel Embolo’s second-half goal, ended Gladbach’s run of four league games without a win.
“Bayern Munich are probably the best team in the world right now, it’s going to be a highlight,” said Gladbach midfielder Florian Neuhaus.
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University of Alabama star DeVonta Smith won the Heisman Trophy on Tuesday, the first wide receiver since 1991 to win the award as the top player in US college football.
Smith claimed the award ahead of Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Smith’s Crimson Tide teammate Mac Jones, also a quarterback, was third in the voting.
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The last wide receiver to win the Heisman was Michigan’s Desmond Howard.
Smith is the third Alabama player to win the Heisman, following in the footsteps of Mark Ingram in 2009 and Derrick Henry in 2015.
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Ingram is now a running back with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans’ Henry just completed a third NFL season with more than 1,000 rushing yards.
Smith’s Heisman win comes as Alabama prepare to play Ohio State University in the national championship game on January 12.
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Smith is no stranger to the collegiate title game. Four years ago as a freshman he caught a national title-winning overtime touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa against the University of Georgia.
Going into the title game he leads the top division of collegiate football with 105 receptions, 1,641 receiving and 20 receiving touchdowns.
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“To all the young kids out there who aren’t the biggest, not the strongest, just keep pushing,” Smith said in his acceptance speech at a virtual presentation ceremony.
“I’m not the biggest, I’ve been doubted a lot because of my size and really, it just comes down to if you put your mind to it, you can do it,” he said.
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Tear gas, midnight arrests, threats and intimidation — the tactics employed every election cycle in Uganda are familiar to all who dare challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s 35-year grip on power.
But even those accustomed to such heavy-handedness say the crackdown ahead of elections on January 14 is extreme, even in a country consistently ranked “not free” by democracy watchdogs.
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Journalists have been attacked, lawyers jailed, election monitors prosecuted and opposition leaders violently muzzled using coronavirus laws.
The brazenness has startled Uganda’s allies, with the United States warning last month of “consequences for those who undermine democracy”.
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“Across the board — not just for people who work on human rights issues — repression has intensified,” said Oryem Nyeko, a researcher with Human Rights Watch in Uganda.
“Things have gotten increasingly worse as the elections have come closer.”
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Museveni is seeking a sixth term in office, unbound by the constitution after parliament removed presidential age and term limits. The 76-year-old has claimed every election since taking power as a rebel leader in 1986 — almost all marred by irregularities and violence.
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Civil libertarians say what little room existed for dissent in past polls has shrunk to near-vanishing point this time around, further tilting an already grossly unequal playing field.
Amnesty International says special campaign rules ostensibly imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic have been “weaponised” to browbeat the opposition — most notably the charismatic young presidential aspirant and chief Museveni rival, Bobi Wine.
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Where Museveni’s supporters have been permitted to gather in large numbers, Wine’s rallies have been broken up with tear gas and baton-wielding police on the pretence of protecting public health, Amnesty said.
The popstar-turned-MP has been detained countless times for apparent violations of Covid-19 regulations, pulled off the campaign trail and placed under house arrest. One such incident in November sparked protests in which at least 54 people were shot dead by security forces.
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The election commission cited coronavirus concerns when suspending campaigning this month in Kampala and several other districts. Wine, who hails from the capital and enjoys popular support there, called the decision “cowardly” and a sign of regime panic.
The flagrant use of lawfare — bending the law to silence critics — by Ugandan authorities was singled out last month by United Nations special investigators.
In October, a government regulator indefinitely suspended an alliance of election monitoring groups, branding it “illegal”. Two months later, four non-governmental organisations working on election processes were accused of financing terrorism, and their assets were frozen.
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The country’s best-known rights lawyer, Nicholas Opiyo, has been charged with money laundering, a case that has drawn condemnation from around the globe.
Opiyo’s prosecution and “the judicial harassment of those who express dissent appears to be strictly related to the electoral context, and fictitious charges being used to justify them,” said the panel of UN special rights rapporteurs in late December.
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Opiyo, who has advised Wine at times, was granted bail on December 30.
But the arrest of such a high-profile government critic on apparently spurious charges shocked even veteran rights defenders.
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Stephen Tumwesigye from Opiyo’s non-profit law firm, Chapter Four Uganda, said harassment and intimidation were expected come election time, but arresting and charging lawyers was something unique.
“I think it is rather extreme,” he told AFP.
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This election is also the first for which Ugandan police have at their fingertips an extensive, newly completed CCTV surveillance system equipped with powerful facial-recognition software from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.
Museveni has hailed this surveillance network as a modern-day crime-fighting tool. But critics say it has served a more sinister purpose this election, allowing police to track and detain protesters and to closely monitor opponents.
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“It’s not targeting criminality. It’s targeting the opposition,” said Dorothy Mukasa from Unwanted Witness, a Ugandan cyber advocacy group.
In December, journalists in Kampala — some wearing bulletproof vests — staged a walkout from a government press conference in protest after two colleagues were shot covering opposition rallies.
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“This is not indiscriminate fire,” said the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Uganda, citing a “consistent pattern of attacks” on media workers by security forces.
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The Ugandan telecoms regulator wrote to YouTube’s parent company Google in December to request the blocking of Wine’s YouTube channel Ghetto TV, citing concerns over national security.
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Just weeks before the election, meanwhile, foreign reporters have been deported, and press accreditations have been torn up, with all journalists told to reapply.
The crackdown “exposes an unacceptable willingness to sacrifice the safety of journalists and the public’s right to information for the sake of censoring coverage” of the elections, said Muthoki Mumo from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
