Sometimes, big clubs get drawn against minnows in cup competitions and they decide to field fringe players and a few youngsters in a bid to give them some match experience and test out a few different game plans. Such games almost always end with the favourites running out comfortable winners and everyone’s happy. Well, Bayern have a different philosophy.Champions of Germany were handed an away tie in German Cup against Bremer SV, a team that competes in Oberliga Bremen, one of the fifth-level divisions in the German football pyramid. And, boy, they did not take it easy at all. They scored 12 (twelve).Friday, 21.30: (1.45) Dortmund (4.60) Hoffenheim (7.00)It took the 20-time German Cup winners just eight minutes before they breached Bremer SV’s defence. The much-maligned Leroy Sane strode into the 18-yard-box before delivering a fizzing, pinpoint cross which Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting rifled into the roof of the net to begin Bayern’s onslaught. Julian Nagelsmann’s side began to shift the ball around with consummate ease as Bremer were undone once again five minutes later. Some neat interplay on the edge of the box between Choupo-Moting and Jamal Musiala saw the German wonderkid put through one-on-one to slide the ball past poor goalkeeper Malte Seemann and double his side’s lead.The winners of this German Cup first round tie were clear already, but Bayern didn’t take their foot off the gas pedal. No, they floored it!Winning 12-0 vs Bremer SV is Bayern’s second highest winning margin in all competitions since getting promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965 – in 1997 they defeated DJK Waldberg in the DFB-Pokal 16-1 [Opta] pic.twitter.com/AsaXnt3iYP— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) August 25, 2021 Three more goals followed in the first half, making the HT score 5-0 at Werder Bremen’s Weserstadion. You see, Bremer’s ground is too small to host a German Cup fixture, so they had to move it to a big stadium a few kilometres from their usual home venue. After a nightmare second half, however, many of the Bremer players must have wished they’d stay at home.Mere minutes after the restart, Bayern had a sixth and a seventh. Ikrami Olatunji inexplicably gave the ball away in front of his own goal to Malik Tillman who finished well before Musiala smashed home for his second of the game. Sane capped off a good performance with a powerful left-footed drive before Bremer’s misery was compounded late on when Ugo Nobile was sent off for a shirt pull.Bayern fans waited for nearly two years to get back into stands… and they booed their own playerYoungsters Michael Cuisance and Bouna Sarr got in on the act either side of a Choupo-Moting fourth as the 10-men crumbled further before Corentin Tolisso hit number 12 to resign Bremer’s 10th appearance in the cup to a heavy defeat. The final scoreline read: Bremer 0 Bayern 12. Ouch.That was brutal.
