DFB-Pokal

Fast forward to this year, and new manager Thomas Tuchel has admittedly not had an easy task. He's not had long since the board pulled the plug on the ...

Listen on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hWCjgapNEjayivRpUtdsy?si=mB5ZObzQSMmPcQzLWmAFpw) or on the player below: Julian Nagelsmann managed to get his bouncing in even earlier with [an October thrashing](https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2021/10/27/22749227/bayern-munich-borussia-monchengladbach-loss-dfb-pokal-second-round-borussia-park-julian-nagelsmann) at the hands of Gladbach — that one a 5-0 defeat that got off the rails fast. Still, questions will abound, as they always must in Bavaria after the bitter taste of defeat. Then in 2020/21, Hansi Flick’s second season took a turn for the worse with a [Bayern Munich](https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com) squad again, as for the third year running they’ve been unceremoniously dumped out of the DFB-Pokal. The German Rekordmeister may have ten Bundesliga titles on the spin, but they haven’t had any luck in recent years in the domestic cup.