Champions League round of 16
“A hot dance”: Company has to crack tactics genius Alonso
It is the new German Clásico. Bayern and Bayer meet for the fourth time this season. This time in the premier class. And it’s about much more than the next round.
Every soccer lover in Germany is looking forward to this sparkling strength with international flair. Bavaria against Bayer is the new German Clásico. Before the giant fight on the lawn of the Allianz Arena, the tension of the protagonists grows.
When Vincent Kompany was supposed to comment on Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz again 29 hours before the champions League Kracher kicked off, the Bayern coach said after a few general places to the young star duo: “Of course, you have already noticed that I actually don’t feel like answering the question.”
Musiala against Wirtz, Kimmich against Xhaka
In the emotional struggle for quarter -finals on Wednesday (9:00 p.m./DAZN) there are no more research tones. It is then also about more than the big individual comparisons between the coaches Kompany and Xabi Alonso, the wizards Musiala and Wirtz or the strategists Joshua Kimmich and Granit Xhaka. “Xabi Alonso and I cannot influence the ball. The players have to bring it over the line,” Kompany remarked to the coaching duel.
In the round of 16 Dahoam, especially for FC Bayern, there is more than the next Ko round at the game. The two games of the two best German teams are about national supremacy. An early dream of the royal class final on May 31 in their own stadium would be a Bavarian strike for Bayern that would have a long time.
Müller: “Of course it’s emotionally special”
“It will definitely be a hot dance,” predicts Thomas Müller for the first German royal class duel since the 2-1 triumph of Bavaria in the historic Wembley final 2013 against Borussia Dortmund. And the original Bavarian Müller confesses: “Of course it is emotionally special to compete against our strongest national opponents on the very big stage.”
It stinks to Munich how badly the once eternal second from the Rhineland now shakes on the Bayern-Nimbus as a permanent number one. 1: 2, 2: 2, 0: 3, 1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0 – None of the last six games against Bayer with coaching mastermind Xabi Alonso won. And as with the goalless league draw in Leverkusen recently, the Munich team of Alonso’s master ensemble has never been dominated in Leverkusen. All of this works with the record champion.
Bavaria approach: “Take job”
“I hope we’re going out and do the job,” said Bayern professional Alphonso Davies. Can Kompany For the first time cut out and defeat the big coaching colleague Alonso in the Saisonduals four and five with Leverkusen? “The first three games had different stories. And they were always played at the limit,” said Kompany. Both clubs combine “a beautiful rivalry”.
“The last six games don’t matter. We want to show again that we can fight FC Bayern,” said the clever tactician and deep forklift Alonso. “We stay cool,” assured the former Bayern professional, which the old Bayern-Granden Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge wanted so much in their coaching chair after the last season.
What is alonso off this time?
What is Bayern-Schreck Alonso off this time? Does he form an eleven again without his top scorer Patrik Schick? Does he let it press very high again? Or are the guests wait cleverly, in the knowledge of the second leg at home?
“Five bad minutes – and you are gone,” warned Alonso. Bayern captain Manuel Neuer commented similarly: “You don’t have to decide everything in one game. You have to be intelligent, keep a cool head.”
The goalkeeper knows what he is talking about. His red card was the crux of the Bavarian DFB Cup-Ko against Leverkusen in early December. In the 0: 1, the superior Munich also lacked Harry Kane. The striker is there this time. Likewise Kimmich: After the first missed season game in the 3-1 in Stuttgart, the 30-year-old mixed up again during the final training in sunny Munich due to a tendon irritation in the thigh. “You are always 100 percent for this game,” Kompany remarked at Kimmich.
Bayer leader Xhaka: “We are stable”
Bayern are a power at home and are undefeated for 21 royal classes. “We are stable enough to annoy Bavaria,” Bayer strategist Xhaka verbally believes. In addition to Wirtz, the Swiss is one of five Bayer professionals that are threatened by a yellow lock in the second leg.
Even if the royal class would also be against Bayer for the Munich CO, even the eight-point lead in the Bundesliga would no longer be a seal of approval that could compensate for this failure.
It would provoke larger Munich reactions in the squad conversion. And it should only increase Hoeneß ‘longing for a Wirtz transfer. The old bosses have verbally intensified the advertising around Leverkusen’s young star in front of Wirtz in a remarkable way.
Florian Wirtz is the best
“Florian Wirtz is the best player in Germany for me,” said ex-Bavaria boss Rummenigge. And that despite Musiala, which is supposed to be Bavaria’s face of the future. Who is the best on the pitch in the present? Musiala or Wirtz? Bavaria or Bayer? The new German Clásico is said to give answers.
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Source: Stern
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