By Florian Main
The Bayern professionals looking for the 0: 3 against Barça reasons for the debacle – and found after the heavy defeat in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League above all: excuses.
Barcelona – from the speakers, the Barça anthem was, on the lawn began the orgy of hugs. The last call before going to the cabin led Marc-André ter Stegen and Manuel Neuer – the two goalkeepers. Ter Stegen had no need to hold the ball, looked Manuel Neuer long as the hero of the night, during that four-fifths of the game, where little hinted at a brilliant result. But the FC Barcelona and FC Bayern, who can not make it seem almost together. With 4: 0 opened the Catalans in 2009, with 4: 0 Munich 2013. Both times could have been to give the return legs.
Then, everything points towards this time, even if it is only 3: 0 emanated after two late goals from Lionel Messi and a very late by Neymar. “We must try to believe” – the assessment of new brought to the point, how many chances to give the Bavarians themselves yet. And so some pleasantries after the final whistle had almost anything definite. Declared on a night when in Munich to Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery the season injured for finished an era could be ended at Bayern. Ribéry and Robben, Lahm and Schweinsteiger, all over 30 years old: the four corner bricks of a large team that conceived Louis van Gaal, the Jupp Heynckes led to its full glory and Pep Guardiola now – so what now really?
New with almost supernatural anticipation
After the 0: 4 last season against Real Madrid the Star coach suffered the second capital bankrupt in his second Champions League semi-final as Bayern coach – this time even against his former club, he ought to know so well. That the game was not already decided earlier, was mainly due to the outstanding Manuel Neuer – the enlightened alone against Luis Suarez (12), alone against Dani Alves (40th) and thanks to almost sensual anticipation alone against Neymar (61).
But all liked are only sufficient, who went along the rhetorical shift in the role as an outsider, the Bayern had completed Recalling its hurting misery. But actually were the humiliated two years ago Catalans as challenger. And with what they celebrated Verve their revenge in the last quarter of an hour, overwhelmed even seasoned champion. As Guardiola’s tactics recipe was at the end and asked autonomous harm reduction, they ran blindly into disaster – a flock without a shepherd. “In the closing stages, gave us the confidence lacking,” said Neuer.
It is not the first time that Guardiola’s auteur cinema refused if the plot takes a surprising volte. For example, if someone like Messi emerges that goes beyond the usual genre boundaries of football. Adequate 1: 0 (77.), a precise low shot from the edge, yet commercial pattern that was 2: 0 Three minutes later even for him a rare masterpiece
In a small space the competent central defender. to let stagger into the void and Jerome Boateng to lob the world’s best keeper – that is actually the “difference between a very large and a unique player,” as Messi’s team-mate Ivan Rakitic said. One of the very great player, Neymar, the result still screwed on 3: 0 (94.). Neymar, the Guardiola was missing – he would like to once brought to Bayern, but the club opted for Mario Götze
Guardiola takes refuge in excuses
And so will you. still not escape the impression that there is a great coach and a great club together produce nothing really big. The hochgejazzte Guardiola favorite Thiago Alcántara finished, why he never hinauskam earlier in Barcelona concerning the substitute role. The respected Guardiola favorite Xabi Alonso lasted long the position, but the waves could end up no longer break. And the coach himself obliged to dominate the continent, remained at the end again only the old excuses: “We had a lot of problems in recent months.”
Back from home to Munich, in the luggage only a Triumph: For the first time since 96 Champions League matches, FC Barcelona was defeated in the battle for the ball. 52 percent to 48 percent for the Bavarians. The bad news was on the stats sheet two lines below. Bayern-shots on Barça goal: zero.
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