Welp, at least we're still on top of the table. I sure hope for a better showing against PSV in CL though.
Just a hypothetical... if we continue on this sluggish path in ALL our games does CA get the axe at winter break? Or would it take an epic collapse of 4th in the BL and out of the CL KO rounds? I just don't understand how we have been so sloppy and sluggish for the last 10 games? Maybe
I really think we should get back to 4-2-3-1 with muller in the 10 slot and the mids rotate. Thiago can rotate with muller. Let our wings and fullbacks create mismatches and open space. Let muller terrorize that open space in between. Let lewa be on the end of every final pass and cross.
Why don't we just base our offense around getting Robben & Kimmich the ball? Nobody else can score. Pretty pathetic from Mueller, Coman & Alaba.
The team has been pathetic and the coach as well. I hate to say it but at this current trend I will wish pep back
Muller has to be bench player now. He has scored 0 so far this season despite so many games. Sanchez finally had a good game, I was really really impressed. Kimmich was okay, scored again. Thiago was good, Vidal is peaking, scored 2 goals for Chile We should be okay. But Carlo needs to change his tactics. And Lahm is not the Lahm 2-3 years ago. In the next 2 years, we need 2 WC Wingers, 1 WC CM & 1 WC RB & we need to spend big. Otherwise we won't see a CHL Semis for the next 5-6 years, this squad is not good enough. You can't win the CHL with Lewa & Muller. My main problem is the brand of football & the horrible subs. Carlo is also way too conservative IMO. We also should have brought a replacement for Goetze! I hope in the winter we buy a RW/LW/CAM type all-round attacker & get a WC CM to replace Alonso in the summer. We need 2 big buys & Robbery will be good for another season till 2018 when we need to replace Robbery & Lahm!
So far we've a worse stretch then at any time under pep...and there was plenty to hate about pep stuff
that was pathetic especially given that we were up 2-1 against a 10 man team that isn't one of the top teams of the league..... Bayern has been going downhill since Jupp left the team and the way we are playing unless we got our shit together we don't deserve to win the league.
Thought that was Starke too Credit to Carlo for getting in there and pushing his players/staff away so they kept their class and did not get sent off in an important match. Always overreactions by fans of any team. Bayern still should win the league. Dortmund haven't been convincing enough. This team is struggling with injuries a bit. Lewa, Ribery, Costa, Vidal, all were missing (or unable to start)
Chill out guys. The way I see it, CA is just still trying to find a right and balance mix for the squad. At least he is giving some younger players chances to start. Coman is still struggling with fitness I guess, but in time should be ok. Sanchez (though some occasional sloppy defending) show some promising ball retention, positioning and passing. I noticed he is often in a good place to receive the ball but don't get noticed by the others.
It seems our build up play now is too direct, too predictable. On goal.com, CA said that he might have to change something.
Back to 4-1-4-1 with Kimmich as the 6? Maybe Neuer Lahm Hummels Boateng Alaba Kimmich Robben Vidal Thiago Ribery(Coman, muller, Costa) Lewandowski Kimmich Vidal Thiago could be our best mid trio Alonso just too slow, would rather use him in strict rotational role. Sanches is very young and will time to develop
In my opinion we need to buy a backup cb and play Martinez from the start in midfield. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
Back to a 4-2-3-1 jupp style? I'm not sure a lot of people like that idea because we are forced to sit A Vidal/Thiago/Kimmich in sacrifice for that DM steel
You can still play 4-3-3 with Martinez. Just drop Alonso and replace him with Martinez. Boateng and Hummels provide plenty of accurate long passes.
Interesting but I want Alonso gone in place of a Kimmich. I like our trio to be the ones I mentioned earlier
Can you be more over dramatic? Bayern won the CL with Muller and a much worse striker than Lewandowski whose only great trait was running a lot. How do you even come to such a conclusion that these two cannot help Bayern offensively, when they were scoring at a ruthless rate literally one season ago. It also doesn't matter how many times you constantly try to shit on Boatang, you're wrong. 100% wrong. And you were wrong the 4 instances you shat on him last season when he had 4 bad games, since you seem to prop up "see how bad he is" all the few minor times that he actually has bad games in an entire season. You were convinced he was not that great during his first season as a CB here where he needed a lot of growing up to do and have went with that narrative ever since as if he's the same player. It's pathetic and cringe worthy. Muller just doesn't work as a RW so Carlo either needs to add another formation for Bayern where Muller plays behind Lewandowski in which both players play better, or basically misuse Muller for the next 3 years. As for Carlo.. he was at fault two games running now, easily. His awful subsitutions allowed a team like Frankfurt to come back from 2-1 down and tie it up with one less player. Instead of putting on Ribs, he did what good old Heynckes used to do and went defensive. This may work in the CL, but it's generally not the best suited for league play. Saying that, he needs time to adjust and the team form will matter in a few months, not now. Saying that, his coaching has been awful the last two weeks.
I agree with a lot of your post, but this team has looked awful, out of sync and disjointed for the last 6+ games now.. Even the games we barely won could've easily gone the other way and we would be looking at a completely different looking table in the BL. Something is just not right with our club right now and if we drop more points this weds and Saturday then it might be time to make some serious changes before it's too late
http://www.bayerncentral.com/2016/10/frankfurt-2-2-bundesliga16-hinrunde-player-ratings/ http://www.bayerncentral.com/2016/10/frankfurt-score-bundesliga16-hinrunde-tactical-analysis/ Tactical analysis: Bayern’s and Hummels’ defensive lapses at Frankfurt 15 OCTOBER 2016, 20:36 BY MICHEL MUNGER Often bailed out by Jérôme Boateng, FC Bayern’s back line had a poor game at Frankfurt on Saturday. Mats Hummels was the main culprit on the day.
Welcome to the world of Mats. He brings a great deal going forward, and has perhaps the nicest aussenrist of anyone in the world right now..... but he too often finds himself out of position and can be a bit of a space cadet at times. I think being alongside Boateng (the best CB in the world imho) and Alaba will shelter him a lot, but he will likely drive you nuts during periods of the season. His biggest defensive asset is his reading of the game and ability to break things apart higher up the pitch.... but the downside of that is he can very easily get caught out of position high up the pitch trying to accomplish that and he doesn't have the wheels to get back. To me it makes very little sense to play him at the same time as playing Alonso.
this team has become so uncomfortable without the ball(under Pep) so that every time the other team is in our own half i fear they will create something, before that under Heynckes we had possession but without the ball we were so strong defensively. CA should definitely try to play a good defensive midfielder one CM and a more attacking one as AM instead of this 4-3-3. Other bad thing is under Pep our midfielder were so high so we ended up getting countered but now our midfield trio is so low that the other teams gets in our own half without problems, we need to know when to press and when to stand back. It looks like we went from crazy pressing to no pressing at all