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Thomas Mueller has extended his contract with Bayern Munich until 2024, it was announced on Tuesday, with the Germany international set to spend his entire professional career at the Bundesliga champions, who he joined as a 10-year-old. "The journey we have taken together since I joined the youth team in 2000 has been a fantastic success story so far," said Mueller, 32, who won a record 11th league title with the Bavarians this season.
Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich have been criticised for last weekend's two-day "team-building" trip to Ibiza immediately after Saturday's shock defeat at Mainz. A week after being crowned Bundesliga champions for the 10th straight season, Bayern crashed to a 3-1 loss at mid-table Mainz, who also hit the woodwork four times in a deserved win. Right after the game the majority of the Bayern squad flew to the Spanish island of Ibiza for a two-day break on Sunday and Monday, which sports director Hasan Salihamidzic had sanctioned as a "team-building measure".
Bayern Munich can secure a 10th straight Bundesliga title next weekend after they bounced back from their Champions League exit with a 3-0 win at Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday. An own goal by Bielefeld defender Jacob Laursen and strikes by Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiala saw Bayern move nine points clear. "A bit of frustration was released after we were knocked out," Gnabry told DAZN. Bayern returned to winning ways five days after conceding a last-gasp equaliser at home to Villarreal to crash out of the Champions League with a 2-1 aggregate defeat in the quarter-finals.
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said Friday he had been subjected to online death threats after his team's surprise Champions League exit to Villarreal this week. "I know I will always get criticism from all sides, that's normal and I can deal with it. But with 450 death threats on Instagram, it's not so easy," said Nagelsmann ahead of Bayern's Bundesliga trip to Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday. "If people want to kill me that's one thing, but they also attack my own mother, who doesn't even care about football," he added.
German giants Bayern Munich will take on Villarreal in the second leg of their Champions league quarterfinal clash, hoping to overcome a one-goal deficit that they suffered in Spain. Unai Emery's Villarreal beat Bayern 1-0 at the Estadio de la Ceramica thanks to an early goal by forward Arnaut Danjuma. Bayern had 22 attempts as compared to Villarreal's 12, but the Yellow Submarine held on to their lead to take one step towards their first Champions League semi-final appearance since 2006. Bayern Munich beat Augsburg over the weekend thanks to a late penalty converted by Robert Lewandowski, and will hope to put in a better show against Villarreal.
"I am pleased that we keep the points," said Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann.
Villarreal inflicted a shock 1-0 victory over Bayern Munich on Wednesday as Arnaut Danjuma's strike boosted the Spanish team's hopes of causing a huge upset in the Champions League quarter-finals. Danjuma diverted in Dani Parejo's shot in the eighth minute at La Ceramica to seal a surprise win, with Bayern perhaps even fortunate not to be further behind going into the second leg in Germany next week. Gerard Moreno hit the post and then curled a long-range effort agonisingly wide after Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer had skewed a clearance, briefly leaving his own net gaping.
German club Freiburg on Monday lodged an appeal against their 4-1 defeat against Bayern Munich at the weekend in which the Bundesliga champions briefly fielded a 12th man after a late substitution. On Saturday, when Niklas Suele and Marcel Sabitzer, who later scored, both came on in the 86th minute, only one player came off, leaving Bayern with an extra man on the pitch for 17 seconds.