Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern are now eight points behind Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen after losing to Bochum yesterday
Bayern opened the scoring in the 14th minute after Musiala found the back of the net, but they were stunned as Bochum scored twice in six minutes to take the lead, with goals from Takuma Asano and Keven Schlotterbeck causing disarray for Bayern.
After the game, Tuchel said winning the Bundesliga title “does not look very realistic”, but added: “Last season we believed until the end and we were rewarded. So we will keep working at it.”
Bayern have been German champions in each of the past 11 seasons but now face the possibility of ending the campaign without a trophy.
They lost in the German Super Cup in August and then went out of the German Cup in the second round to third-tier Saarbrucken in November.
Tuchel’s side lost 3:0 to Leverkusen last weekend and were then beaten 1:0 by Lazio in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie in midweek.
Referring to the pressure on him following his team’s third loss, Tuchel added: “That happens after every defeat.
“The ‘how’ we played is key. The ‘how’ was good and that’s why this 90 minutes are very different from the second half at Lazio or the game at Leverkusen.”
This defeat was the first time Bayern have lost three matches in a row since May 2015, when managed by Pep Guardiola.
Upamecano picked up his second yellow card and was dismissed after elbowing Schlotterbeck – his second sending-off in five days after being red-carded against Lazio – with Bochum converting the penalty to go 3-1 ahead.
Bundesliga top scorer Kane got a goal back late on but his side could not force an equaliser.
He did manage to set a new record as he became the quickest to reach 25 Bundesliga goals in one season, doing so in 22 games to beat the previous best mark of 25 by former Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland.
Kane, who moved from Tottenham for £86.4m last summer, has not won a major trophy in his career, so will be hoping Bayern can catch Leverkusen and turn around their European deficit.
