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Max Eberl, Chief Sports Officer of Bayern Munich, reacts during a panel discussion at the Sports Business (SPOBIS) industry conference at the Congress Center Hamburg. A "heated" atmosphere is expected when Bayer Leverkusen host Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday after both sides lost at home in the Bundesliga this weekend, Bayern head of sport Max Eberl has said. Christian Charisius/dpa
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Jonas Urbig will shrug off his mistake which cost the team a Bundesliga victory at Union Berlin, board member for sport Max Eberl has said.
Urbig, 21, did not look good when he palmed a deflected cross into the path of Benedict Hollerbach who scored an 84th-minute 1-1 equalizer on Saturday.
Urbig arrived at Bayern in January and is currently deputising for injured Manuel Neuer, with matches including the recent Champions League last 16 tie against Bayer Leverkusen which Bayern won 5-0 on aggregate.
"He wasn't saying after the Leverkusen game 'now I am here'. That's exactly how he'll have to deal with it now. But I'm not worried about that. This is a young player," Eberl said.
Ebert rather said that the team should have defended better before the goal.
"You can say we could have defended the header better beforehand, we could have defended the cross better. A few players got caught up in that goal and that's annoying," he said.
"We win together, we lose together, and in this case we draw together."
Coach Vincent Kompany evaded the Urbig issue by saying that experienced players are needed to win matches.
Urbig is seen as a potential successor of Neuer who is 38 and has a contract until 2026.
"His talent is undisputed, but as with all other great goalkeepers, mistakes are part of the maturing and development process; they also happened to Manuel Neuer at a young age, for example," Kicker sports magazine said.
The draw, after Leroy Sane's 75th-minute opener, came after a surprise 3-2 home defeat against lowly Bochum but Bayern were nine points clear at the top ahead of Leverkusen, who are at VfB Stuttgart on Sunday night and can draw within six points.
„We're getting punished for every mistake in the Bundesliga at the moment. We're lacking a bit of luck at the moment. If we regain it, it won't be about one point from two matches any more, but about six points," full back Josip Stanisic said.
Eberl named the draw "annoying" given Bayern's dominance, while Kompany refused to be fully disappointed.
"It was a game with two facets for us – the performance and the result. We aren't satisfied with the result, but we didn't turn in a bad performance," he said.
Now comes the international break and Bayern are expected to have Neuer back between the posts when they resume Bundesliga action against St Pauli on March 29 and Augsburg on April 4 before a crucial Champions League quarter-final tie with Inter Milan.
"We'll keep going," Sane said. "We want to fight for the championship title, as early as possible."
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