Stars in stripes: Bayern remain unchallenged
Bayern will sti ll compete in the league – but only one-half long. Just as in the first and last against Dortmund in the second in Berlin, so now in the first, in the Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday night was the more dangerous team again, but the goal is not met. Then Franck Ribéry came and sat a headed pass from Xabi Alonso to 1: 0 victory hit into the net (51). The hundredth Bayern goal of the Frenchman handed the dominant after the break master to a plain, but certain victory.
Author: Christian Eichler, born in 1959, sports correspondent in Munich.
about two years ago, in October 2012, Bayern had last lost a league game in which the championship was not decided – 1: 2 against Leverkusen. The decisive blow was then dropped by a strange own goal by Jerome Boateng. On Saturday Boateng seemed to want to continue it when he colleagues Xabi Alonso anschoss after less than three minutes. The ball bounced to Leverkusen Karim Arabi Bell, who stormed Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer alone, followed only by Juan Bernat. He took over the ball past Neuer, but lacked the necessary pace, coming to his. Bernat reached the ball off the line and hit it off. The Spanish full-back was in the first and best opportunity to break even of Bavaria, as he prevailed in the game in the 12th minute on the left wing and brought a soulful edge over goalkeeper Bernd Leno away inside. Robert Lewandowski was almost too late.
� �
Heavy tactical game against good opponents: Arjen Robben “AML” Photogallery
Otherwise, the Bavaria struggled to bring their offensive luxury quintet Ribery, Robben, Lewandowski, Götze and millers into play. You behagte the aggressive pressing Leverkusen’s not a specialty of coach Roger Schmidt, the Bayern coach Pep Guardiola earlier this year at a 0:’d met 3 friendly defeat against Schmidt’s former club Red Bull Salzburg
.
“I’m a big, big fan of this style of play and the coach, they always play according to his idea,” Guardiola enthused before the game. “Coach Roger are good for football, I like his style of play.” The right tactical antidote were the Catalans contrast to usual habit but not initially occurred, including the lack of visibility and ball security in the game center without injured Lahm, Thiago, Alaba and still not again players selected in the starting Schweinsteiger helped.
So, Leverkusen had to break more train to the gate, it lacked, however, the consistency and precision in the final stages of quick attacks. Heung Min Son went through on the right wing, fit sharp at the six-yard box, Stefan Kiessling just missed (7 minutes). Kiessling offered themselves also with a brilliant counterattack from the right hand side, just three players in the penalty area, but his cross flew into space (30). And as a fine diagonal pass Gonzalo Castro sent between the two central defenders t hrough alone on Bayern’s Gate, was known in New tour joyful way to help and caught the ball thirty yards before scoring from (40)..
In order to break Guardiola brought to strengthen the central Sebastian Rode for the nearly invisible Mario Götze. The change worked immediately. The biting Hesse, came early in the season from Frankfurt, brought out with great dedication a corner that led to the leadership. The corner short running brought Rafinha as cross across goal where Xabi Alonso back laid the ball off with his head on Ribéry. The Frenchman thanked for the occasion on which he became the new French record in the Bundesliga with his 186th game (previously the Stuttgart Matthieu Delpierre), with a powerful volley from ten mete rs
.
And suddenly the Bavarians were in one fell swoop master in its own house. A sharp cross by Thomas Müller Leno drew near the Upright (57). Ribery Robben played freely, whose sharp shot over the bar Leno drew (58). And after a ricochet from Tin Jedvaj who saved before the bullet prepare Müller, Robert Lewandowski shot the ball two yards volley into the side door of the empty network (59)..
Then the aggressiveness of Bavaria died down again. But they controlled in proven way in the last half hour of the game and the result.
More about
Here you can buy the rights to this article
<- ========= confirmation page.! Will be loaded by JS if submission is successful === ============ ->
.
No comments:
Post a Comment