By Thomas Hummel
“It was a strange game”: Before empty stands and against a very defensive CSKA Moscow Bayern Munich experienced probably the most gray evening’s Champions League history. The performance of the defense is thinking.
If the background is not so serious, the history of the Champions League match in distant Moscow could be a very adventurous. A game to the exclusion of the audience has something Purist yes, something original. Also something conspiratorial, because it feels a little as though a gang of young people tricked the caretaker and illegally used the largest stadium in the city for a leisure kick.
The fact that a group of Bayern fans so much imagination and had enterprise, to rent in an adjacent high-rise building on the 18th floor is an apartment with a view of the pitch, will go down in the history of the most extraordinary Fanreisen. They made from up there so much noise that at the end captain Philipp Lahm personally from the field remote adopted by them
In spite of the high-rise Fanblocks Lahm said later in the basement of the Arena Khimki:. “This has no was fun. ” This sentence was almost everything said about the evening in the distant Russia. FC Bayern won its second group game in the Champions League group E at CSKA Moscow through a penalty by Thomas Müller in the 22nd minute. Behind closed doors, against a defending with nine players Russian masters. The evening will be remembered as one of the most remote, biedersten, unemotionalsten in the history of FC Bayern Munich.
“A strange feeling”
games behind closed doors bear the nickname “ghost game” and, in fact, the Munich expressed then in a form when they had met a ghost. “When I watch from my office during our training, which is more sympathetic, than what I’ve seen here tonight,” said CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Coach Pep Guardiola said: “This is a strange feeling Football is for the people, not for us I hope that it does not happen again…” And scorer Müller said: “Normally the football for the fans and spectators is played We’re in the entertainment business operates, so that was very strange and has what you play, so put a bit in question..”
CSKA Moscow could allow this game to no audience, because his fans were previously noticed several times with racist actions. Many clubs in Russia have problems in their stadiums, where right-wing extremists often can freely shout their slogans and maintain their influence on the fan scene. Therefore, some fear even excluding some clubs from the European Cup, which is controversial in light of the 2018 World Cup in the country.
Bayern fans in Moscow cheers from the 18th floor
Necessity is the mother of invention: Because the Uefa requires a haunted game, rent fans of FC Bayern an apartment in an adjacent skyscraper. They are rewarded not only with views.
The problem CSKA Moscow is expected to solve in this European season to December by itself. The Russian master appears to be totally overwhelmed with the heavy group and retired to the playing style of a unterklassigen Cup fright. After the 1: 5 to kick off in Rome, Moscow concentrated against Bayern on protecting the own gate. Prior to a five-man defensive line was one of four defensive midfielder series, the Moscow wanted to prevent a second debacle. What they so far succeeded, as the Munich just only one goal brought about. An energetic arrival of Mario Götze resulted in a foul, the subsequent penalty turned Müller sure.
“It was not only because of the lack of fans a funny game, but also because of the playing style of your opponent. It was not easy for us, “said Müller. 77 percent of possession, 918: 260 Played passports, 26: 5 flanks, 12: 2 corners and 21:11 Shots. The superiority of Munich was sometimes oppressive. The 918 passports were even played Bayern record in the Champions League
What do not express the numbers:., Moscow had in the first half, a couple of big chances. The nine players behind the ball a few times threshed precisely to their lonely comrades in front, the small Nigerian Ahmed Musa. And once ran Medhi Benatia thereof, as if this made a backpack full of rocks with on the court. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had to save. Later Roman Eremenko shot at the bar.
The overall impression of the interior and defense Benatia Dante fell under the category of “sometimes irritating”. Especially in the first half, they had problems with fast Musa. Without the time geschonten Jérôme Boateng, the Bayern defense made a vulnerable appearance. After the break, but the Munich played so dominant that Benatia and Dante no longer came under pressure. Pep Guardiola’s idea to win the ball well before the last line of defense and then just to keep him, went back to
Two games, twice. 1: 0, group first before the two meetings with the strong AS Roma . It runs again according to plan for Munich. Whether with or without an audience.
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