T-online columnist Stefan Effenberg also hopes for a magical night and the big happy ending in the Müller fairy tale. “I would like him to get this big stage again on Tuesday,” said Effenberg in the Sport1 double pass, “that he really fulfills his biggest dream again.” This has already succeeded with many other dreams that he had become world champion and Champions League winner. “But this final Dahoam is so important for Thomas Müller,” says Effenberg: “He will give everything for it. I hope the other ten too.”
Lothar Matthäus became even more concrete with Sky90 and made a haunting recommendation to Kompany. “Thomas Müller for the team right from the start – with captain’s bandage – very clearly. Müller is running for the team and shoots the 1-0 after five minutes,” said the record national player. “There will probably be such stories – if he can start. But I can imagine that exactly that will happen – something special about Thomas Müller.”
In any case, the duels with Inter are in any case. In his newsletter, he reminded of two bitter encounters with the Italians. “Under van Gaal (then head coach of Bavaria; editor’s note) we played against them in the 2010 Champions League final. A year later we were eliminated in the round of 16 against the Milanese.”
The reunion in the round of the best eight European teams now has a pioneering character for Müller. “The quarter -finals are somehow the last hurdle that we have to manage before I can really start dreaming of the final of Dahoam,” wrote Müller. “Of course this is our goal, but maybe you know what I mean. If we make it into the semi -finals, the final will be ultimately tangible for me.”
The final decision in the duel will then be made in Italy in the coming week during the second leg on Wednesday (9 p.m.). “In the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, the typically likeable Italian football crowd awaits us, I’m looking forward to that,” says Müller, who reminds: “We also meet a few old colleagues: Yann Sommer and Benji Pavard Play at Inter.”