On the day of remembrance for the deceased striker legend Gerd Müller, FC Bayern Munich only scored their first Bundesliga win of the season with great difficulty and thanks to two-packer Serge Gnabry.

In the 3-2 win against 1. FC Köln, the German series champions found it extremely difficult on Sunday evening and even gambled away a 2-0 lead in the meantime.

But national player Gnabry saved coach Julian Nagelsmann from a botched home debut and hammered the ball into the goal in the 71st minute with full force to make it 3-2.

Only with youngster Jamal Musiala for the disappointing Leroy Sané did the Munich team gain momentum after the break in front of 20,000 spectators for the first time in the Allianz Arena.

Robert Lewandowski (50th minute) after a dynamic solo by Musiala and Gnabry (59th) after a cross from Thomas Müller met in quick succession.

"Seems to suit me"

“Cologne seems to suit me,” said double scorer Gnabry at DAZN, but admitted: “We ran into a lot of counterattacks in the first half.

After the break we did better and deserved to win, ”he added.

Surprisingly, Manuel Neuer was in goal for the record champions - despite an ankle capsule injury when he won the Supercup against Borussia Dortmund. "The pressure pain" on the foot is tolerable, Nagelsmann reported before the start of the game at DAZN. For a long time, Neuer was hardly called upon - and then twice without a chance within a very short time. Cologne's storm duo Anthony Modeste (60th) and Mark Uth (60th) equalized with a double strike to make it 2-2. When conceding the first goal, Niklas Süle made a positional error. In the second, the new defense colleague Dayot Upamecano came too late against Uth.

“We did it very, very well today. Bayern are technically too good to keep pressing. It's a shame we didn't take a point. We would have deserved it today, but we can also be so satisfied, ”said goal scorer Uth at DAZN. His trainer Steffen Baumgart saw it similarly. “At the beginning we had a lot of respect for Bayern, there is nothing to complain about in terms of play. The boys didn't break away after Bayern's 2-0 win, they came back, ”said Baumgart and concluded:“ It was a great game ”.

Before the kick-off and a minute's silence, Honorary President Uli Hoeneß paid tribute to his long-time companion and former storm partner Gerd Müller in a personal address on the arena lawn.

The "Bomber" who died on August 15 at the age of 75 was one of those who "taught FC Bayern to win," said the 69-year-old Hoeneß.

This victory was very difficult for the Munich professionals around world footballer Lewandowski.

The tailwind of the Supercup win against Dortmund did not appear for a long time.

An unusually large number of bad passes crept into the Munich game, especially in the first half.

It culminated in whistles after the umpteenth ball loss by national player Sané.

But the winger wasn't the only Munich player that the ball just didn't want to obey.

Sané's substitution at break was understandable. The 18-year-old Musiala then revived the offensive game decisively. But defensively, as in the previous season, the Munich team lacked stability and sovereignty. Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart had chosen a courageous approach to the game after the 3-1 opening win against Hertha BSC in Munich. The Rhinelander pressed again and again, looked for the forward gear, but missed a surprising point gain. The good Timo Horn in goal kept his team in the game with several saves, for example against Süle and several times against Lewandowski.