On Sunday evening, Pellegrino Matarazzo sat on the podium in the press room and said a sentence he had never been allowed to say after a Bundesliga game against FC Bayern: "I think the draw is okay."

Christopher Meltzer

Sports correspondent in Munich.

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In his first three attempts as a football coach at VfB Stuttgart, Matarazzo had lost three times against the permanent champion: 1:3, 0:4, 0:5.

Now, in his fourth attempt, he made it 2-2 with his team - and that in a game in which it was all about whether he could still sit in Munich and say sentences next season.

If Pellegrino Matarazzo and VfB Stuttgart hadn't earned a point against FC Bayern in the penultimate matchday, they could not have left sixteenth place in the last matchday.

That would have meant: Relegation – if things go well.

VfB hopes again

Since the 2: 2, the chances are very good that with 30 points, 39:58 goals and a home game against 1. FC Köln, they will no longer be beaten by seventeenth-placed Arminia Bielefeld (27 points, 26:52 goals, home game against RB Leipzig ) are caught - and not bad that they even overtake the fifteenth Hertha BSC (33 points, 36:69 goals, away game at Borussia Dortmund).

"If we get three points, Hertha must also score points against Dortmund," said Matarazzo.

I heard he had hope.

Because of a cross from Borna Sosa and a header from Sasa Kalajdzic.

This scene showed the skills of the VfB Stuttgart team.

Hardly anyone can cross the ball as precisely as the German-Croatian full-back.

Hardly anyone can head the ball as precisely as the Austrian center forward.

The goal to make it 2-2 was representative of the potential and talent that Matarazzo has in his team.

Then why is Stuttgart in sixteenth place?

Because many players with potential and talent were injured this season.

And because the league has adjusted to the strengths of Stuttgart.

"It felt like each team sent two men to Borna and I was covered by two men in the penalty area," said Kalajdzic.

"Then it's not easy."

It was different on Sunday.

In the 52nd minute, Sosa was able to free cross three times in 20 seconds before reaching his striker.

In the 53rd minute, Kalajdzic was able to score freely in front of Manuel Neuer.

"I know that I should have put the ball in," he said - and later added: "Of course you can always complain that more could have been done.

But we have worked so hard with the point, for the head, for morale.

And so the Stuttgart players celebrated with their fans in the stadium - on the evening when the championship trophy was presented in Munich.

On Sunday evening, Julian Nagelsmann, the FC Bayern coach who won his first title in his first season in Munich, sat on the podium in the press room alongside Pellegrino Matarazzo.

He spoke about the cup being "heavier than expected" but also the sporting problem evident even in the game against the sixteenth.

"The counter-pressing has to be mercilessly good - with a lot of power," he said.

That was rarely the case this season.

The result: It's not very difficult to take the Bundesliga's first team by surprise in transition situations.

How to solve this problem?

When a reporter asked about new players in this context, Nagelsmann replied: "I wouldn't mind if we bought one or two pressing machines either."

Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic was later in the interview zone.

The man who is responsible for buying players in Munich.

"We don't have an infinite amount of money.

We have extended some contracts.

We tried to keep the core of the team," he said.

"We'll see what we can do based on the financial situation."

And even if his coach's wishes for the club's competitiveness in the Champions League are understandable, one has to say with a view to the Bundesliga: It can't just be down to the squad that a 2-2 draw against a relegation candidate is also okay from a neutral perspective goes.