Chapter 213 Fatal Flaws
As a Bundesliga giant, Bayern Munich's financial situation has always been very healthy. Although Kingsley Koeman was sold to Manchester City in the summer transfer, the old coach Heinx bought Portuguese winger Gonzalo Guedes at the same price from Paris Saint-Germain.
After the Portuguese winger transferred from Benfica to Paris Saint-Germain, he had no position and was young, and was loaned to Valencia in La Liga last season. He performed very well there, playing 42 games for the Bats in various competitions, scoring 6 goals and assisting 10 times. This performance is already very outstanding for a 21-year-old young talented winger, and he also joined the Portuguese national team.
Bayern Munich's traditional style of playing is to use two wings to create threats and provide the team's center with the opportunity to score goals. Especially now, the arrowhead on Bayern's forward line is Polish striker Lewandowski, and his ability to seize opportunities is super strong.
However, Ribery, who had two wings of Bayern before, was really too old, and now they can no longer fly. After all, one was 34 years old and the other was 35 years old. Bayern urgently needed to find a replacement for his two wing attackers.
Kingsley Koeman was originally good, but he was the person Guardiola was optimistic about before. It can even be said that Guardiola was his mentor. Guardiola summoned Koeman, who performed poorly in Juventus, to his command. Now that his mentor has sent a call again and Manchester City is not short of money, Bayern naturally can only let him go.
But without Kingsley Koeman, Bayern still needs to continue to play the tactic of flying both wings, which led to the deal to buy Gonzalo Guedes at all costs.
This time Bayern came to Manchester and made up his mind to compete with Manchester United. After all, the "Red Devils" were the European champions last season. Even if their strength has declined this season, wouldn't this be better?
As long as you win Manchester United, Bayern's morale will inevitably increase greatly. Even if you lose... it will not have any negative impact!
As for whether Manchester United's strength has declined due to its summer transfer, it will not be under Bayern's control.
On the afternoon of August 4, Old Trafford Stadium was re-activated for the first time in the new season, and it was directly full. Not only did Manchester United fans who had been in a summer frantically flock into the stadium to see the team's lineup in the new season, but even 3,000 away team tickets were sold out. The appeal of the "Bundesliga Giant" was not covered. 3,000 fans also came to support this game.
And Bayern's performance... is really worthy of the German fans who have come from afar!
After the game started, Manchester United still controlled the rhythm of the game as much as possible on the court as possible, but Bayern's playing style was... simple and crude, with a big opening and closing!
In 4 minutes, left-back Alaba suddenly inserted an assist and dribbled the ball near the bottom line before sending a cross...
Tuanzebe, who is better at one-on-one defense in the middle, aims at Bayern's top scorer Lewandowski, but Tuanzebe is young after all. The game experience accumulated for Aston Villa's championship last season is obviously not worth enough. He was actually shook by Lewandowski, and neither of them could touch this ball.
At the back point to the right, although Maguire blocked Thomas Muller behind him at the beginning, at the moment Alaba passed the ball, Thomas Muller actually used his flexibility and speed to go around two meters in the direction of the ball flying towards the ball, not only getting rid of Maguire's defense, but also seizing the favorable terrain.
The ball flew over, and Thomas Mueller directly stepped on his body and slashed in the air...
Bang!
After the ball was pulled out by Thomas Muller, he actually couldn't know where the ball would fly, let alone De Gea in front of the goal!
The result is... After De Gea found out that the ball was flying towards the right goal, although he had already blocked the left side, he had already returned to the middle and made a leap save, but he did not touch the ball!
0:1!
Just 4 minutes into the game, Manchester United fell behind at Old Trafford!
The Old Trafford Stadium was suffocated. Manchester United supporters never expected that the game had just begun and their team had already lost the ball and fell behind.
"This ball...This ball...Bayern is very lucky! And Maguire was a little careless when defending Mueller. It should be because the game was just at the beginning and he had not entered the state. Under normal circumstances, Maguire would definitely not let Mueller get rid of his defense so easily."
The commentator is looking for reasons for Maguire, but who really understands... believes it?
Maguire is a very "rough" central defender, and he is best at dealing with power-type centers like Lukaku, but when he encounters an attacker like Lewandowski and Muller, Maguire will be at a disadvantage, especially if the opponent targets him, his flaws will be more easily exposed.
But... can this be considered Maguire's fault?
Not possible!
Maguire is this type of central defender, an iron-blooded central defender with fighting spirit, not a central defender with delicate skills and rarely making mistakes. In fact, he appeared in this game today... It was wrong!
This is obviously a problem with Solskjaer's use of people. There is no problem with using Tuanzebe in this game, Maguire... Then it's better to use Varane!
In the 11th minute, Bayern got the opportunity to counterattack. Lewandowski, who was in the front, ran to Maguire again. Mexican left winger Lozano made a pass and gave the ball to the left of the free throw point.
Lewandowski, who was rushing forward in the middle, directly took advantage of his more flexible advantage than Maguire, and grabbed this point with just one change of direction... Dong!
The ball fell directly onto Lewand's head and was directly hit on the ground with his forehead!
For a shooter with comprehensive skills like Lewandowski, the header after rushing can exert a very strong force, and as long as the angle can be controlled, it is very threatening.
The ball first fell into the small penalty area on the left side of Manchester United. After a rebound, it flew to the lower left corner of the Manchester United goal!
De Gea, who was originally standing in the middle of the goal, rushed up and fell to the ground to save, but finally he was a beat slower. The ball rubbed against his fingertips and flew into the goal again... 0:2!
Manchester United, who played at home, fell behind 0:2!
This time, even the commentator at Old Trafford Stadium was dissatisfied: "Ole's deployment today is really a problem. Bayern's attackers are all very flexible and comprehensive in technology. It is a disadvantage to let Maguire defend such opponents. Today, Ole's employment...is worth discussing!"
Chapter completed!