😅 A mixed blessing?! Neuer's record match goes horribly wrong

By starting in Bayern's Bundesliga match against Mainz 05 today, Manuel Neuer overtook Bernd Dreher as FC Bayern's oldest-ever Bundesliga player. At 40 years and 225 days, he is now the oldest player to represent the record champions in the Bundesliga.

And at first, everything went to plan. Kimmich put Bayern ahead in Mainz after 14 minutes, with Kane providing the assist.

Then, in the 40th minute, things slowly but surely started going downhill, especially for record-breaker Manuel Neuer.

Amiri swung a free kick into the box. Tah slightly deflected the delivery towards the far post, Neuer came flying out and missed it by a mile, and Jae-Sung Lee tapped in behind him for what appeared to be the equaliser.

Immediately after his ill-fated and unsuccessful leap, Neuer signalled that something was wrong. After receiving treatment on his right foot, he had to come off, with Jonas Urbig replacing him.

So Neuer is injured again, but there was still a silver lining.

His mistake in misjudging the free kick went unpunished. Lee was narrowly offside when he scored, and after a VAR check, the goal was disallowed, leaving Bayern ahead at the break.

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