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America USA wrote:

bastos80 wrote:Great performance from everyone except Goretzka.
Especially Davies and Kimmich.

Goretzka was very good today except that one time where he lost possession and Dortmund almost scored on the break. A solid 7/10 from Leon today.

Kimmich though was immense in midfield today. He has me eating my pre game words

Davies, Javi, Thomas, Pavard and Lewandowski were the other star performers.

IsiahRashad wrote:I don't know..

Was Bayern soooo good ?

or

Dortmund came to see the stadium?

The truth is always in the middle, but I think everyone from Bayern was great /except Goretzka..who is not really guilty of anything, he's just average/ and Coutinho's last position which made me mad. Perisic still better than Coman, and thank god for Lewandowski and Davies.

Jorge wrote:I have been saying this all along: Bayern's problems are rooted by the possession style stamped at the club in recent years, I even go further, Germany got contaminated as well.

A few days ago there was a tweet saying that Bayern was not going to abandon the possession based tactics: it scared the heck of me! One in this forum even justified it saying that "the problem is not having the ball but what you do with it". This is so wrong that I can't even explain how wrong it is.

Possession must be just one component of the game, used when there is a need for it and by certain players. Possession as tactical foundation or involving the whole team is a tactical suicide and it was proven again and again when we faced meaningful opposition when the system was implemented by the genius of possession football, now it is proven with just a few training sessions how effective almost the same players can be having a more direct approach.

It might take balls to field Thiago but to change the way we played it was more than needed. I am confident that he will find his way back into the starting XI and he will come back as a more effective player in a more direct approach and we will benefit tremendously, he will even contribute mixing things up or going into possession mode when we need it (like to run down the clock when we have a lead) but for now he was not missed a minute.

I expect that our midfield now anchored by a double 6 to give us the tactical order that we lacked, and this goes beyond Kovac, for sure Leon and Joshua got the idea right away, Kudos to Flick, with more training sessions Thiago and Corentin will fine tune themselves as well, at the end, this is a more simpler concept to grab and ultimately more entertaining. I hope this is the beginning of a new era for Bayern, for the most part I have been suffering our brand of football for the last 5 years.