Stay calm, even if it’s hard Franck Ribéry had already first leg in Donetsk some plug
For Manuel Neuer only one thing this Wednesday: “The game must be won. The how is not important. “Perhaps. At least for Pep Guardiola, the professional pessimists. For him, What is the most important thing – at least in the days before, in his musings on the right path to the destination. You will be this time perhaps even longer and more profound fail than usual in the days before a game. Winning is always mandatory at Bayern, but this time it’s more than a good old habit. It’s a compulsion.
Author: Christian Eichler, born in 1959, sports correspondent in Munich.
Guardiola calls the match against Shakhtar Donetsk (20.45 clock / Live on Sky, ZDF and in the Champions League Scores on FAZ.NET) of habit, a “final,” even if it is just a knockout stages – and therefore only for the losers final. After the 0: 0 in the first leg in Lviv but have already prohibits a draw, so the thought
.
For the first knockout round of the Champions League could all Bavaria-year, no matter what they gain in the two national competitions, ruining atmospheric already almost three months before the end of the season. “That would be disastrous, as we know,” said Neuer. “But we think first of all positive. We remain true to our policy, nothing wavering. “
Guardiola often questioned. It is the basis of his work. “I am always afraid’m always worried before a game,” he said recently. “If you’re an optimist, you are calm. A trainer but can never be quiet. And until now, it was not bad in my career to be a pessimist. “
More about
The pessimist is based on worst case. The worst case in football is to be vulnerable to counterattack. Last May, it was the Bayern in two games against Real Madrid, then no more, but then again, the end of January, at 1: 4 in Wolfsburg. Since then counter-control has become Guardiola key issue for the most important weeks of the year. “He’s absolutely right,” says New.
team captain Philipp Lahm, returned almost four months after his ankle fracture to training, but not yet ready for use again, has followed the development from the sidelines, almost like an assistant coach, he as Guardiola’s tactical mind brother is de facto. And like a little pizzazz, it analyzes the situation well: “It’s about how the team and individual players on losing possession behave. In the way we defend, with fast ball conquests, we are vulnerable if we do not do it correctly, “he said in an interview with the” kicker “. At the same time he declared: “The problems we had in Wolfsburg, we have regained control.”
Donetsk prepared the Bayern defense in the first leg no difficulties. But the Ukrainian champions defended compact and knew how to provoke the pampered from the tame opposition in the Bundesliga Bayern with Nickligkeiten. The untrained in frustration tolerance favorite was irritated. Especially Franck Ribery, who flew in the semifinals in 2010 from space and only escaped a red card in the semi-finals in 2014 because of the referee overlooked a slap in the face of the Frenchman, suitable as a candidate for a loss of control. Also in the cup match against Braunschweig a week ago he had much luck with a Nachtreten unpunished.
“Without his emotion he can not play football,” he apologized Guardiola. “As a player I sometimes react similarly. We need to control the but. We have been playing a couple of times with ten men “- only in so far seven Champions League matches, according to Medhi Benatias emergency brake in Manchester and Xabi Alonso Yellow-Red Card in Lviv twice. “But I want these emotions, we need that. Without that we are not a top team.”
From sporting director Matthias Sammer late on Saturday praise for Ribéry, because the are the 3 did not provoke 1 in Hannover Leonardo Bittencourt and had “solved with great personality” – as it was already a superstar in the eleventh year of employment a personal capacity, to be in control. But Bayern need it urgently, the Frenchman and his unpredictability, which lends her playing piano.
© AFP Depends already ahead of the game purely powerful: Bastian Schweinsteiger
Depends already ahead of the game purely powerful: Bastian Schweinsteiger
For Ribéry, as already over thirty Arjen Robben, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Alonso, it will not give too many chances to do it with this team, and perhaps with this coach. Dante, replaced early in Hanover is now apparently landed first in the OB 30 on the siding. The Bayern squad has 27.4 years, the highest average age of the league, the players of the tracker Wolfsburg are on average almost two years younger. Nor agree, the age structure is Sammer, who demanded before the second half: “The mix of the team is exceptional and in my opinion must once again lead League to win the Champions whether this year or next year.”
So Guardiola is also the second-year Bavaria not on comparison with its predecessor and its triple win in 2013 over. “It is a big task for me to keep the level of Jupp Heynckes,” says the Catalans. He has this level playfully enhanced in the league, is measured at the end but above all to results in the knockout rounds – not least in the outcome of the most dangerous game of the season this Wednesday. Therein to refute the pessimists in Pep Guardiola, it will then arrive at two things – check counter, check nervous
.
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