DIn the 62nd minute, Julian Nagelsman began to think. “This game,” Bayern coach admitted, “is on the edge.” And the game will end with the first Bundesliga victory, but he is not sure at that stage of the game. But then Serge Gnabry’s second goal that night gave him a sigh of relief.
At the end of the second game on Sunday, Munich’s 3-2 victory was by no means supreme, but hard-won. “There is still a lot of work to be done,” Nagelsman admitted. Less than an hour later, the game seemed to be decided in Munich’s favor-thanks to two goals by Robert Lewandowski (50th) and Gnabry (59th). But then 1. The Cologne team came back and succeeded through Anthony Modest (60th) and Marc Ute (62nd) before Gnabry made a decision in favor of Bayern (70th) Equalized the score.
Lack of lightness
The record champion still lacks ease and naturalness. Sometimes the settings are not suitable for the back and front structures. Nagelsmann described the game as “crazy” and considered it “similar to the Gladbach game the previous week.” His team “does not always make good use of the space given by the opponent”, especially in the second half.
On the other hand, the Cologne team builds on their good performance in beating Hertha Berlin last week. “There is nothing to complain about in the game,” coach Stephen Baumgart said, even though he thinks his team “doesn’t be as brave in the first half as I hoped.
Mueller’s memory
First of all, in the Munich stadium packed with 20,000 spectators, everything revolved around the forward Gerd Müller, who died a week ago. Bayern chairman Herbert Hainer and his predecessor Uli Hoeneß remembered the club legend in touching sentences. According to Hoeness, Mueller and his goal created the Bavarian “feeling that the whole world envy us”.
What Bayern offers on the court, Ged Muller may not like it very much. Compared with the Super Bowl game against Dortmund, Nagelsman has converted his team into two positions. In Leroy Sané’s starting lineup for the injured Kingsley Coman, Tanguy Nianzou unexpectedly replaced Josip Stanisic, who was recently highly praised by Bayern coach, in the defense.
Last three instead of last four
Nagelsman did not use four points, but tried a three-way chain in the half, and then Stanisic was allowed to play again. In contrast, Manuel Neuer, who has been questioned due to a capsule injury, does not want to leave his first home game of the season to his representative Sven Ulreich. It was his own goal.
The championship team opened the scoring in this game, first Leon Gorecka, then Thomas Muller, and finally ended the game in a promising position, but neither of them hit the ball perfectly. However, this is by no means the beginning of Munich’s offensive spectacle-this is mainly due to Bayern’s imprecise and overly complex development game.
“We didn’t do many conversions well,” Gnabry admitted. However, due to Cologne’s struggling to move forward, but Bayern’s performance was not strong enough when Bayern lost the ball, so that this run-down game developed without a bright spot in the direction of break service.
Strong second half
As boring as the first season, the second season is just as exciting. After the intermission, Nagelsman opened with a personality: Jamal Musiala came to the incredible Sane, who was blown a few whistles. The 18-year-old international showed how it works after Mueller passed the ball. With a lot of pulling on the goal and the safety of the ball, he gained the upper hand on the left, passing in from the goal line accurately, Lewandowski completed and took the lead (50th).
Nine minutes later, Gnabry improved the score to 2-0. Jorge Meré deflected Müller’s cross, which unfortunately fell on the Munich winger, who only needed a shot. Bayern seems to be back in Super Bowl mode now, but unlike against Dortmund, the defense now allows him to take a nap. At first, Nicholas Suller’s cross was too far from Modeste. The striker only had to header from close range (60th), then the defense allowed Marc Uth to slip away, who scored the equaliser (62nd). ).
Now they are awake again, Bavarians. Gnabry tried this after Timohorn’s long-range defense failed-it succeeded. He saved Munich’s mistake with a 3:2 (70th) goal. Before some discussion in the next few days.
