Bayern Munich Did Not Work Hard Enough Against Bayer Leverkusen – Jupp Heynckes

Jupp Heynckes has quickly ruled out staying beyond next summer at Bayern Munich, despite president Uli Hoeness saying that he might extend his stay.

Asked if Heynckes could stay on at the end of the season, Hoeness said on Friday: “I believe it is possible, yes — nothing is ruled out.”

Heynckes said: “I don’t know why Uli said what he said.

“We have an extremely clear agreement and that runs until June 30, 2018, and that is the way it is staying. I don’t want to comment on this every week. That’s pretty clear.”

Bayern slipped to their first defeat under Heynckes since he oversaw a loss to Bayer Leverkusen in December 2012 in their Treble-winning season — a run of 31 Bundesliga games.

In addition to talking about his future, Heynckes bemoaned his side’s display in the opening period.

“Our first-half performance was to blame for the defeat. We didn’t work hard enough, we were too slow and found no rhythm,” he said.

“Tactically, Gladbach played cleverly on the counter-attack and we conceded the second goal out of nothing just before the break which is bad psychologically.”

He added: “But in the second half we invested a lot more, the game was concentrated on their goal.

“We were better defensively against the counter-attack and we had a host of opportunities to score, but as I said, we lost the game in the first half.”