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Have Bayern Munich’s tactics been found out?
Jon Mackenzie explains
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Hamburg was like: If you can be risky, then we can, too.😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fake Guru. Do another analysis of sessko
Bayern's schedule has been cramped up a bit. They just played about 6-7 games in about 20 days. They've lost laimer to injury and kompany is trying to get back the guys previously injured like davies, ito, moose back into his setup. From what I've seen he is also switching players constantly to avoid the disaster of last season where they had about 7-8 players (4-5 starters) injured leaving them with a bench of newbies against inter.
2nd half of the Champions League is going to be insane
Only Hamburg
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Hold on there.. let's not make it like Kompany is some kind of tactical mastermind..
Augsburg is just Bayern’s little Nemesis. This game is not about Tactics or quality. It’s like a family fight. 😂
We were passing players on to a teammate 35 years ago in the Huddersfield Junior League. Kane at CB 😂
Bayern haven’t played with their starting lineup in about a month. It’s crazy how people don’t actually watch Bayern games but love to talk about then
B team playing too lol
I believe Motta used man oriented zonal marking at Bologna which combined both types of marking methods.
I genuinely think one of the most important factors in the most recent games was Konrad Laimer's injury. Without him, Bayern lack that one guy who just keeps running and fighting as long as he's on the pitch. He's also the one who often covers Bayern's physically extremely weak central midfield. His absence is hurting Bayern a lot.
Who's old enough to remember when Mourinho tired this woth real against barca a few times?
good times 😊
The real issue is that even if they're dropping points, the competition isn't competent enough to pick them up
Dorkmund struggled to win 3×2 against bottom of the league Hoffenheim at home even
Bayern will just end up buying the best talents from the other teams so the farmers won’t stand a chance
or maybe they just got hit by a flu wave and missed a lot of theire players who knows 😀
The refs can't let the title be decided too soon.
So they're just "out-bayerning" Bayern Munich
So they can't swap between man marking and zonal on the fly?
Great breakdown!
So they arent being trained to handover their man to other players, you have to switch beyond a point. That’s basic football.
Next best teams will adopt principles akin to match coverage defences in the NFL/NCAA. Being able to essentially drop to a zonal defence and track specific danger points as the play advances down the field.
It would be so interesting if they were neck and neck with Dortmund in a few weeks. 😅
As a Bayern Fan, I did in fact notice, and it's deeply unsettling that we might lose the title race after what looked like an easy win😵💫
Letting your striker get dragged to your own half is actual insanity bruh.
Kompany definitely needs to go and think over his tactics, being that strict with man marking makes no sense considering Harry Kane is probably the best back striker in the world at the moment.
best m2m marking job i ever saw was atalanta at anfield in the europa league. fouled the liverpool player every single time they received the ball & turned past them. ref didnt book any of them early doors so did it all game and won 3-0, most dominant an away team has been at anfield this century. it wasnt smash and grab, liverpool couldnt play football getting kicked in the air and rugby tackled every touch
You forgot Urs Fischer Haramball
Its couse the ref was high vs hoffenhaim
Bayern played 7 games in 21 days with 5 wins 1 draw and 1 loss with a little injury and sickness spree.
This seems like an overreaction
Here in Brazil, we usually call it “o cobertor curto” (“the short blanket”): you can either cover your feet or your head.