by chardos » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:13 pm
The good:
Ribery and Lahm seem to be linking up the way they used to. And it seemed like Lahm was EVERYWHERE.
Köz (the 18 year old who played right back) really didn't look that bad for an 18-year-old youth product. He definitely has potential. Still would have liked to have seen Rafinha in there.
Kroos looked great for the ~10 minutes he was in.
The bad:
I know it was technically a friendly, but I don't really know what Heynckes was doing in this game. Was this Heynckes telling Badstuber/DVB that CB is their position to lose? Why not play Rafinha at right back? Köz played well for a young Bayern II player, but I don't think he'll be challenging Rafinha for a starting position anytime soon. Maybe he was trying to emulate last season's squad as much as possible and contrast it with a different lineup next match but if there's one thing we know leads to a bag full of fail, its switching around our back 4 (I guess 6, if you count DMs) every game.
Neuer made a vomit-worthy mistake on that first goal. I don't know if he didn't call Basti off or he didn't hear him or whatever, but it looked as though Neuer thought he wasn't going for the ball, which as a defender you can never do unless called off of it.
The ugly:
Badstuber needs a life coach or something. Seriously. The boy has so much potential, but he always looks so sloppy and undisciplined in every sense of the word.
So much of our squad looked .. average. Robbery, Muller, Gustavo, Basti, Gomez, DVB, they all just looked ... 'OK.' Yes, its preseason. Yes, the game means nothing in the long run. Yes, its basically the first quasi-competitive game after the break. But as a team, when do you start playing with tenacity? Midway through the BL season? CL knockout stages? DFB-Pokal Semifinals? We looked lazy. And we can't look lazy, ever, or we end up with a repeat of last season.
chardos"That is football, we have seen it in the past. It is not always the better team that have the cup in the end .. It is hard to find words for that, but football is not everything."
-Thomas Müller