Bundesliga 2020-21, die zwei Goliaths und zehn Dwarfs

strange lineup for Bayern
Bayern München vs. Chelsea - 25 April 2021 - Women Soccerway
I mean, their benching top scorer Schuller, Dallmann & Wenninger, but bringing in Laudehr & Simon who've barely started these lastfew months. If you believe soccerway's configuration. Ilestead, the usual FB starts at CB ahead of Wenninger. Magull at central striker instead of Schuller in an apparent 4-3-3. Well lets see what happens!

 

BM/Chelsea live on youtube(English version)

 

Lohmann scores! Bayern 1-0 13th minute

 

Leupolz turns traitor to her former club & scores 1-1

 

Sweden finally throws their alliances to Germany as Glas scores for Bayern, 2-1 59th minute mark

 

2-1, good victory for Bayern,, now they can pretty much use the same~lay back & counter~tactics in the return bout. Chelsea can still win with an 1-0 victory in London, but missing was their direct soccer/long balling as well Sam Kerr, who was as scarred of the ball as she was when her Matildas took on Germany a few weeks ago. Interesting too that P Harder was taken out of the game so early on

overall, rather underwhelming once again from English soccer

 

did at least Hegering get credit with the assist? lol

I was watching the Frankfurt/Freiburg game on YouTube, but it was a little dull, so switched over to Sand vs Bremen, which turned into a scoring bonanza in the last few minutes with Sand scoring 3 goals for an impressive 6-1 win.

wonder why this club took so long to wake up?( as their still in 2nd to last place?)

Their best player I felt was Patricia George. She’s listed as an American, but played 1 game all ready for the Nigerian national team. She played for the U of Illinois, though only got 4 goals in 4 years to her credit(thought it be more with the blazing speed she comes down the left flank). Prior to college, she attended Von Steubon High School, which you would think is in Germany but actually as well in Illinois

well solid win by Bayern(either Glas or Lohmann for p.o.g?)hopefully it will influence more fans to give the Bundesliga a try instead of watching England’s overrated WSL

 

the one thing you got to appreciate is that the WSL has started to pay decent salaries to woso players, but so far this why has either the league or the English NT been so underachieving?

if we go by some of these top players list like the Guardian top 100, here’s how Chelsea & Bayern Munich would stack up

Chelsea; 1,7,16,25, 26, 39, 46,60, 63, 66, 67

BM; 41, 75, 80, 81, 94

so starting with #1, Harder, there’s supposedly 5 more players higher ranked than the top BM player, Magull. Then 5 more ranked higher till the 2nd BM comes in at #75. So definitely a monumental upset if BM can maintain their lead.

Looking at the other leagues; way too many teams(16) in the Spanish League where one squad dominates(Barca) not just as league leaders but also their NT squad(12-14 players on it)It’s hard to believe the other clubs are willing to spend enough money to compete with that

FRANCE words out that the budgets will be cut for both #3 & #4 ranked Bordeaux & Montpellier, so it will essentially remain a 2 team league & all ready PSG is loosing two starters; Parades & Moroni, so now they might have money problems too/ over a dozen of France’s 2nd tier NT players have moved over to either England or Spain

Bundesliga; they certainly got some great ‘schools of soccer’ taught by their clubs, but they haven’t kept up with salaries for players; even their only two full pro clubs, WOB & BM. I doubt if most players make an six figure salary/if I remember Mandy Islacker’s BM salary given to her in 2017 at 100K euros was the highest ever up to that time in the Bundesliga. How does that compare to the reported 600K salary given to Sam Kerr by Chelsea?

 

so JoJo Elsig has just announced she’s not returning to Turbine Potsdam for next season this would the last star/NT player that the club had left. She didn’t mentioned where she’s heading, but an unconfirmed source says it might be an French team.
With missing so much star power, Turbine been the biggest surprise of the year, so far at 4th place.... but with JoJo gone?

if you say so(Spain’s the best league) but a better way would be if they had RESULTS!
while Spain NT looks good during most of the year(due to usually 8 Barca starters chemistry) they’ve failed rather badly major tournaments during having to put a deeper team together with players from other clubs

while Barca obviously going places in the Champions League with all the money they spend, usually the 2nd best club ends up loosing spectacularly in the CL—-if I remember one year, Wolfsburg beating Athletico 10-1 in one CL match. That score line would be on par with Wolfsburg playing against the Bundesliga’s last place team. But maybe things are changing these days?

 

Bayern vs Chelsea starting in an few minutes


lineups/probaby not the right configuration

 

unfortunately due to Chelsea’s away goal, they take the actual lead

why didn’t just bunker at the beginning? Worry their going to get slaughtered in the open field

 

YAY, Bayern strikes back! and by goal by what i tho thought was the weakest starter in the lineup; Zadrazil

 

Goal shortly before halftime by Chelsea and its 1-2, but now makes it even for the two legged series

again; wish Bayern would stop trying to run with an run n gun team like Chelsea?(please bunker & aim for the PK shootout, lol)

can anybody explain why Berrensteyn laid down while Chelsea took that free kick?(which on rebound led to the goal)

I’ve never seen that tactic before

 

Needing stability in midfield, Bayern brings on Dallmann, but at an cost of giving up their leading scorer, Schuller

Dallmann made an immediate impact, but Chelsea’s quick counters look oh do dangerous!

I honestly would bring in Laudehr, she did play dirty last last time out, but it did slow down the game a bit(I’m which favors Bayern)

 

well 4-1 Chelsea, but least Bayern went down fighting! shades of Jorgie/WC 2018
with Chelsea scoring at the open net