After a short cooling-off period, Kai Havertz hung the silver medal still around his neck. He had worn them first, only in the Hand dangling from the stage, you looked at short. Skeptical, disappointed. At the edge of the looked at Bayer Leverkusen midfielder then after the 2:4 (0:2) in the Cup final against FC Bayern the jubilant people of Munich to the celebration. With his arms crossed, staring into space.
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In this second of the longing of the exceptional Talent will be risen to the title again. Well, most of the clubs that advertise Havertz, almost have a guarantee on it. So the Bavaria. Although the 21-Year-old with Leverkusen in the final tournament of the Europa League in August, with a title Chance. But on this evening in Berlin, the knowledge remained only once: with Havertz Leverkusen has not completed its “Vice-series”. After his first finals in his Pro career, the ninth second place stands for the Association since the last title in 1993.
Interviews gave Havertz after the game, no. Maybe because he had no desire to ask after its future, who will accompany him probably because of the twelve-day Short vacation. But surely also because he was frustrated. Because in spite of his terrific penalty transformed at the very last second for a final score Havertz had used the stage for self-promotion. Especially in the first half, as he was lost in the storm peak and given away.
With Havertz on the Ten Bayer brought the until then strong Double-Bavaria after the break, despite a 0:3 backlog once again falter. Had coach Peter Bosz vercoacht so? “It is always easy to say after the game: The second half was better, hey, why haven’t you played from the beginning?”, Bosz, the lost, the first of four Dutch coaches in a final in the DFB-Pokal replied.
