‘Horror movie’: Bayern’s favourite tune is a haunting note in Bochum

How could this week have got worse for Bayern Munich? After two meek losses on the road that continue to threaten a profound effect on their season, with barely a shot of substance fired in anger in that time, some would have suggested a bit of late weekend comfort eating to mask their troubles, away at Bochum. Mischievous fate, however, had one last prank to play on them before Monday came.

Visitors to the Allianz Arena in recent years have long since remarked on the goal music, a concept not to all tastes at the best of times. The indignation of inevitable concession at Bayern’s home is greeted by the jaunt of the can-can, played for just that little bit too long to rub it in that yes, your efforts are futile and that yes, you are now very much in the mud.

The only other club in the Bundesliga to lean on Offenbach to commemorate scoring? That would be VfL Bochum. Their Vonovia Ruhrstadion could not be more different from Bayern’s home, a low-roofed, wild-spirited chocolate box of a ground which is about one-third of the capacity of the champions’ lair. So what better way to compound the glumness of another setback in Bayern’s current run – “a horror movie that doesn’t end,” as Bochum native Leon Goretzka put it after the match – than 43 seconds of the can-can to signal Takuma Asano’s smartly taken first-half equaliser? Such is Bayern’s gloom at present that it never felt like the bottom of the well. Being merrily taunted with their own celebration music (three times, in the end) simply capped a shambolic week for Thomas Tuchel and his players.

That this was the second time Bayern had gone down in Bochum, a club with a tiny fraction of their means, in three seasons – even if they twice have beaten them 7-0 in the