It is about the question that should be decisive for the football team of FC Bayern Munich this Wednesday evening. Crucial for how the game in the stadium in Milan will end. And at least with a decisive factor for how the season will be rated, but first of all the questions that football players Michael Olise were asked in Säbener Strasse in Munich in August 2024. And the way he replied to her. The first question: How was the arrival in the city, what is the first impression of the club? The first answer: “Good.” Good. The team welcomed him, the coach too. The second question: What did he do, who drew attention to himself in the English Premier League with 14 goals and 22 goals in 82 games, actually preferred: scoring goals or giving goal templates? The second answer: “Well, Both.” Both, so that only continued briefly. Four more questions, four more answers. Then even the reporters were speechless. Then Michael Olise, the player for whom FC Bayern had just spent more than 50 million euros in transfer fee, was gone again. And even if the questions were really not very stimulating, Olise, born in 2001, was reminiscent of a boy who responds to the questions of his parents with as few words as possible after school so that he can go to his room as quickly as possible. Olise, who is usually set up as a right -wing striker, scored 13 goals and given 16 goals. With his quick changes of direction, he may have spent more opponents out when FC Bayern has euros in the time deposit account. He even demonstrated Granit Xhaka, the midfielder from Leverkusen, by making a small hop, eating the ball with his left behind his right foot and then simply walking past Xhaka. Activate external content you can say it all: he spoke to his feet. And with it the decisive question for FC Bayern: How can the team score enough goals against Inter Milan this Wednesday evening (9:00 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker to the Champions League and at DAZN) to get into the semi-finals in the first leg of the Champions League after the 1-2 defeat? The answer could be: Michael Olise.Olise in the Musiala role? Bayern have to score at least one goal in the San Siro stadium. But if you think that in the past five games against Union, St. Pauli, Augsburg, Inter and Dortmund, they also conceded at least one goal, it may well be that they even have to score at least two goals. The advantage is that you have a center forward with Harry Kane who, when he gets the ball in the penalty area, can always score a goal. The disadvantage is that Jamal Musiala is missing the player who brings the ball to the penalty area faster and more reliably than any other-right? No, Olise is not a musicala, but if you look at the data of this Champions League season, your values are almost identical. On the sports statistics page “Sofascore.com” there are the categories “successful dribbling” and “Great opportunities out”: Olise and Musiala (23 each) lie on the same, in the second Olise (10) is even ahead of Musiala (8). Activate external content. You can criticize that, like Musiala, like Musiala, for the highest Champions League standard, too often misjudges when it should dribble and when it should fit. One can criticize that – like before the first goal Inter Milan in the first leg, which he was involved in the defensive – he does not play with the discipline and energy that is necessary at this level. They saw this in England where Olise was born, grew up and made the breakthrough with Crystal Palace in the Premier League. You saw that in Munich. And you can see that in France. In September, Olise-his father has Nigerian roots, his mother French-Algerian-played for the French national team for the first time. And already this March, national coach Didier Deschamps, when France threatened to miss the Nations Four of the Nations League after a 0-2 first leg defeat against Croatia, made an amazing decision: he set up Olise in the position where he otherwise set Antoine Griezmann. The most important player for the French team, who set the scale between 2016 and 2022. Following the 2024 European Championship, Griezmann declared his resignation from the national team. And apparently Olise is supposed to replace him. France won the second leg against Croatia as a player 2-0-and reached the final four in the penalty shootout. Will a Michael Olise game? In Munich, a decision by Vincent Kompany has been discussed since the first quarter-final game against Inter Milan. The trainer had not set up Thomas Müller, but Raphaël Guerreiro. But at the latest since Müller had been substituted and immediately shot the interim 1-1, the public discussion revolves around the question that came under the then coach Thomas Tuchel: Which game is a “Thomas Müller game”? The coach Tuchel had his decision against Müller in spring 2023 with the fact that the Champions League game against Manchester City was not a Thomas-Müller game. But this Wednesday-Müller, Müller-should be something different for FC Bayern: whether it will be a Michael Olise game.
