This is not how Thomas Müller had imagined his comeback after the second corona infection.

The national player's first own goal in the 407th Bundesliga game cost FC Bayern Munich a home win in the 1-1 (1-1) game against Bayer Leverkusen and thus a successful dress rehearsal before the round of 16 second leg in the Champions League against RB Salzburg .

With an unsuccessful defensive action in his own penalty area, Müller steered a Leverkusen free kick from Kerem Demirbay into his own goal in the 36th minute on Saturday.

Before that, national defender Niklas Süle put the league leaders ahead with his first goal of the season in front of 25,000 spectators in the sold-out Allianz Arena (18th).

Marcel Sabitzer missed the best chance of winning Bayern.

Shortly after his substitution, the Austrian – freed by Jamal Musiala – appeared alone in front of the Leverkusen goal, but was denied by goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky (62').

Despite losing two points, Munich remain on the master class – and Bayer on the top class course.

Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic was missing after a positive rapid corona test in the stadium on the Bayern bench, on which Leroy Sané also had to sit at the start of the game.

As with his winning goal a week ago in the 1-0 win in Frankfurt, the national player was given the joker role again by coach Julian Nagelsmann.

Sané came into play after an hour, but this time he didn't win the match.

Nagelsmann strengthened the defense against Leverkusen, who are strong in attack, and relied on a back four against the dangerous Moussa Diaby and Florian Wirtz with Omar Richards as a replacement for the suspended Lucas Hernández.

Bayern created chances from good control of the game.

After a corner by Joshua Kimmich, there was chaos in the Bayer defense, which Süle punished with his volley.

It was an early farewell gift from the national defender, who is currently proving his class before his free transfer to Borussia Dortmund in the summer.

There were words of appreciation for Süle before the kick-off from Bayern boss Oliver Kahn: "I think that's a professional attitude that Niklas shows.

He throws everything in here again.” Süle wants to say goodbye with titles.

Bayern actually had everything under control until they pushed themselves out of the winning lane.

Captain Müller jumped into a free kick from Demirbay and deflected the ball with his foot into his own goal in front of goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, who was ready to catch.

Shortly thereafter, Dayot Upamecano had one of his too frequent dropouts: the Bayern defender played sloppily back to goalkeeper Ulreich.

Amine Adli splashed in between, rounded Ulreich – and then shot the post from a tight angle (42').

Shortly thereafter, Ulreich prevented the 1:2 with a save against Charles Aránguiz.

Leverkusen could have led to the break, even had to.

Even after the change of sides, Bayern offered attack surfaces in the remaining defense that Nagelsmann had previously declared important.

However, the guests did not stab their counterattacks.

And the Bavarians?

We tried hard, but found hardly any solutions offensively.

In addition, Hradecky held the point for Leverkusen against Musiala (47th) and especially Sabitzer.

But Leverkusen also had more good chances in the second half, and the game was on the brink several times.