The play by Alaba and Martinez was spectacular but one must acknowledge the initial pass from Neuer. Its like he saw four plays into the future.
So, HT, Not our best match, but not a bad one either. Did anyone notice how we stopped fcking around and piled on the pressure just after Van Buyten came on? It's almost like our players realised, "Oh, shit here he comes, better keep possession in their half now."
As Admiral Ackbar would say: " It's a Trapp !!" ... MOTM so far ... Hope we can get past him a couple more times !
Beside the assist, you can easily notice that Javi isn't fully with the team yet. He is just to close to other players, never goes forward because he can't create space for himself... but you can see that he's got the talent.
Frankfurt playing high defence and Pizarro is just too static, he literally denied us a goal Ribery was screaming at him he should have left the ball to Alaba. Martinez still looks off he is just running around getting in the way most of the time.
Neuer again part of the reason Bayern is so dangerous after we regain possession in corners. We are so dangerous in this regard, a shame we aren't when we have our own corners.
That was a very frustrating half... But we also have to mention, how the hell do Frankfurt still have 11 players on the pitch... I swear they are going to have 11 yellow cards on the team without a single dismissal... I am glad that we scored, we need to ass rape these clowns..
He's doing good no question about it but neither Ribéry two efforts nor Kroos' shot needed for a world class effort to save the ball.
I'm lovin it and we have the players to execute it. Muller, Kroos, Ribery, Schweini,Robben(if he finds he scoring boots) all have good scoring instincts. It makes us unpredictable
btw at least with Daniela we are dangerous at set pieces, we haven't scored from one a lot of time... Daniela scored with her head from the first cross...
I thought about the set pieces issue a lot. My conclusion is that they are not as bad as their reputation. Especially the set pieces from the flanks are excellent from both Robben and Kroos. The corner kicks however are another matter. Shaqiri is looking promising though. We just don't have very strong team in aerial challenges, especially offensively. Dante and Martínez are improving that but we haven't really seen the goals yet. Hope that'll change sooner rather than later.
Claudio is going off though I thought he did well. Especially ball distribution, movement between the lines and linkup game were very well.