Haha! This season the joke has already been made by a well -known representative of a well -known club. When the football managers of FC Bayern Munich, Alphonso Davies, the full -back from Canada, negotiated an extension of the contract, a representative secretly said that this Davies had his right foot to get beer. The joke was that the managers not only extended the Davies contract afterwards, but, he also reported the “Bild” newspaper, also paid a hand money of 22 million euros. This is at most mediocre, Davies’ skills with the ball with the ball. But last week you noticed how important this Davies is to the managers in Munich. When the Canadian national player came back from his homeland with a cruciate ligament rupture (which had not yet been diagnosed as such), the managers appeared almost as inquisitorially as in the Free State of Bavaria, otherwise only the Ministry of Culture, if a teacher says the word “profit maximization”. Champions League in the Stadium in Munich. But how does it explain that the chances of the season of a player have dropped through which even in his own club is witty that he has his right foot to get beer? There is a shorter and a longer answer to this question. The shorter one goes like this: it has the most important quality that a player must have in modern football. He is quick, very quick. You can already say at this point that the chances that FC Bayern will play the final of the Champions League in its stadium and even win has really dropped significantly last week. Because in the international week not only the left-back Alphonso Davies, but also the central defender Dayot Upamecnao (free joint body in the knee- season very likely) was injured, and because on Saturday the Bundesliga victory against St. Pauli (3: 2) it also caught Hiroki ITō (midfoot break), who plays both as an inner and as an inner and as a left-wing defender can. Since then, at the latest, pessimists would say that FC Bayern is as far away from a “Dahoam” final as Uli Hoeneß from entering a socialist party. Davies, Upamecano, ITō – these are not only defenders who fit into the game system, but those who can be considered relevant to the game system because of their properties since Vincent Kompany became the FC Bayern coach in the summer of 2024. And with it for a longer answer. Company’s aggressive pressingam August 13, 2024, when Kompany had only been working with his new team for four weeks, FC Bayern announced that central defender Matthijs de Ligt will change the club. Some irritated some in Munich. Because the club had only spent at least 67 million euros in a transfer fee for him in the summer of 2022. But when Kompany presented his game idea, it was immediately clear that his defenders would always get into one-on-one situations because of the aggressive pressing. And in such situations you have to be quick. The central defenders Upamecano, ITō and Minjae Kim are. The full -back Davies anyway. The central defender de Ligt does not. This season, in which ITō was almost consistently missing due to the same midfoot injury, Upamecano and Kim played in the middle – and increased after they continued to be irritated in the first few weeks and months of the season. They played well in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Leverkusen. And Alphonso Davies probably played more than ever since he switched to Munich in 2019. With a view of the quarter-finals against Inter Milan, which starts on April 8th (9:00 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Champions League and at Prime Video) with the game in Munich, Kompany will probably rely on Kim and Eric dier. And left wing on Raphaël Guerreiro or Josip Stanišić, who is faster than Guerreir, but with the ball much more prone. Downgrade also in the offensive or so on Saturday you could see that it was not only on the defensive (before the meantime 1-1 was at least one step too late), but also on the offensive. Once let roll through his legs, luring the defenders from the penalty area, Guerreiro lacked the speed to ride the ball onto the goal. It would have been different with Davies. In the connection to the game, the coach from St. Pauli, Alexander Blessin, was sitting in the press conference hall in the stadium and said that despite the defeat, his team had “quickly played with little contact” that it “did really well” at the other and that in his view “a little more would have been in it”. What does that say about Bayern’s opportunities against the Italian champion when the coach of the fifth in the table speaks like that of the Bundesliga? The chances have decreased, yes. But on the other hand, you shouldn’t rule out anything after a week in which Uli Hoeneß-no joke-for the stadium cooperative campaign of FC St. Pauli has had a picture in a T-shirt with the inscription: “Now be enjoyed!”
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