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Bad news for Thiago: The partial ligament tear in his knee means he will be out for 6 to 8 weeks

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/mar/29/david-moyes-manchester-united-bayern-munich

Bayern disappoints in a 3:3 draw against Hoffenheim, Thiago gets injured

FC Bayern played a poor game on Saturday, losing a numbers game in the midfield against Hoffenheim in a 3:3 draw. Claudio Pizarro saved the team’s face by being involved in three goals.

In addition, Thiago picked up a serious knee injury. He will miss from 6 to 8 weeks. He’s basically out for the rest of the competitive season.

First half: “poor but sexy”

The first 10 minutes looked OK with Bayern passing the balll quickly, attacking from wide positions, especially on the left. But problems started at the 11th minute with a poor van Buyten pass near the goal, almost giving Anthony Modeste a scoring chance. Hoffenheim had little defensive resistance to offer.

On the other hand, Bayern’s midfield was weak and its defensive line very high. This is precisely why they conceded the first goal to Modeste, who had acres of space to receive a pass and go forward. There was little cohesion to prevent them from launching effective counterattacks, and too many challenges ended as fouls.

Claudio Pizarro was the man of the first half, passing and scoring superbly. Xherdan Shaqiri and Rafinha were doing well with crisp passes and fast transitions on the right flank.

Missing: Mario Götze. He had little presence in the first half, as this dashboard shows.

Second half: losing a numbers game

Going through the Hoffenheim midfield got easy early on, but we couldn’t get that decisive pass done. Shaqiri missed some chances, such as the one he sent over the bar.

Hoffenheim kept outnumbering Die Bayern in the middle, the ball carrier not receiving the support needed to go forward and create a clear-cut chance. There were little options to pass and little accuracy whenever there was an opportunity to get the job done. Schweinsteiger and Lahm lost many important battles in the middle.

Tom Starke did a good job with a couple of early saves, but then his poor clearance and the lack of defending in front of him made FCB concede the 3:3 equalizer.

Arjen Robben could have earned the three points when he went all alone on Grahl, thanks to a Shaqiri throughball, but he was robbed by the keeper.

The spin

This B-team miserably failed to beat the worst defence in the league. There was no fighting spirit. The midfield was often non-existent. Bayern did not look good today. This doesn’t mean much for the game against Manchester United, but there is no doubt that Pep Guardiola will be unhappy about the result. So are we. The remaining Bundesliga games should help the team to keep its players fit and ready for the final stages of the season, not to deteriorate their condition and confidence.

Goals

0:1 Defence gets caught flat footed with a high line. Modeste receives a pass on the left, goes all alone on Starke and shoots, partially saved, but he runs past the keeper to tap it in (22')

1:1 Shaqiri sends a low cross to Pizarro from the right. The man stumbles, dives, sputters but heads the ball in on the left (31’)

2:1 Shaqiri takes a bouncing pass from Pizarro in the area and sends the ball in on the left (35')

3:1 Ribéry goes down the left on a counter, centers for Pizarro who beats the keeper with a deflection despite the narrow angle on the left (40')

3:2 Starke beaten by the Salihovic direct free kick (44')

3:3 No defending whatsoever by van Buyten and Dante after a poor Starke clearance, and Firmino shoots it past Starke on his left (75')

Lineups

Tactical analysis: Bayern’s ugly midfield against Hoffenheim

Tactical analysis: FC Bayern deserved to lose against Hoffenheim on Saturday, with Claudio Pizarro and Tom Starke saving a point. Where did the Reds fail? Central midfield.

Tactical points

Two big problems appeared. A lack of commitment in the midfield and bad decisions when the Reds were outnumbered. Keep the two points in mind when you read the following.

First, Bastian Schweinsteiger had his worst game in years. No physical presence and little support for the attack. On this play, let’s highlight the lack of commitment on a challenge. He fails to go for the ball and then gets the man. Foul instead of ball winning.

Same man, different position, similar problem. The team recovers the ball and is ready to launch a promising attack. Basti receives a pass, doesn’t run forward and gets bumped off the ball. Hoffenheim threaten again. You should also notice that he is outnumbered. No support.

I rarely criticize Philipp Lahm, but he was also made poor decisions today. An Hoffenheim guy receives a pass in the middle. Lahm looks, and looks, and looks as he winds up to send the ball forward.

Diego Contento had a terrible game. On the following play, Götze keeps the ball alive near the line on the left. Contento has no idea what is going on, does nothing and Hoffenheim can easily launch an attack. Dante has to cover for him.

Who sends a pass through three guys? To see it bounce uselessly? Götze, who had the option to send it to an all-clear Contento to his left. Why?

Passing accuracy isn’t bad to have either. It doesn’t look good when Götze has to look ahead to see what Hoffenheim player is going to receive Thiago’s misplaced pass early on.

What about shooting? Diego Contento shouldn’t give paid lessons. Schweinsteiger sends him a throughball and the guy sends the ball high and wide.

But before you can even get the ball to the midfield, you have to send the first pass forward. In order to do that, you need to retain the ball before passing. Sounds basic? You may want to ask Daniel van Buyten how he does it.

One more, I believe by Mandzukic. Not controlling the ball and losing it.

Speaking of retaining the ball, it won’t go through to the last third if you just watch the opponent take it away from you. Pizarro is guilty of it on this play in the second half.

What happened to man-marking? Late in the game, two guys were beaten on this run that led to a shot on the right. Starke had to save three points on that play.

That’s not to say that everything about that game was bad. Franck Ribéry, Xherdan Shaqiri and Claudio Pizarro played great. On a good four-on-four transition phase, Ribéry stops running suddenly in front of two guys and sends the ball directly to Pizza, whose chip barely misses the net. Excellent playmaking.

Another great pass from Ribéry, this time to Shaq. He seems him unmarked and ready to shoot. It doesn’t result in a goal, but it’s a great play.

How Bayern scored

1:1 Pizarro. Amazing cross by Shaqiri. There are four defenders to deal with and Pizarro is marked. Shaq sends it forward to Pizza, who adds the toppings by fighting with his mark to put the header in.

2:1 Shaqiri. Rafinha runs fast on the right to evade a defender. He passes to Pizarro who could turn around for a shot, but he sees that Shaqiri is uncovered, presumably by Polanski. He gives him a short pass and Power Cube doesn’t waste time sending the shot in.

3:1 Pizarro. Very smart combination by Ribéry and Pizarro. Ribs goes on the left wing without dealing with pressure. The defender wants to cut the angle. Instead of attacking the goal directly, Pizza hangs behind a defender and looks for the last burst forward. He follows up by deflecting the ball in a very tight space. Accurate. And give Ribéry credit for running a long sprint. moments before, he was at the other end, launching that attack when taking the ball that Dante won.

How Bayern conceded

0:1 Modeste. I looked at the replay a number of times and I can’t conclude anything else than a defensive mistake. Modeste is in his own half while waiting for the pass but the van Buyten refuses to go back to cover him, thinking that he is offside. He goes on to beat Starke.

3:2 Salihovic. No comment to make on his direct free kick, but there was a mistake leading to the kick itself. Rafinha made a challenge on the ball carrier, when he should have left it to van Buyten who was in better position to take the guy on.

3:3 Firmino. This starts with a poor clearance by Starke, who sent the ball high instead of controlling and passing. The mistake is van Buyten’s. He stays on his feet and doesn’t put pressure on Herdling, who passes to Firmino. Dante looks bad after that, but the mistake made before and his positioning behind Firmino (see the screenshot) made it very hard to time a good challenge.

Statistical points

Pep Guardiola may be the recipient of an avalanche of plaudits, having just recently won the Bundesliga in record time (seven games to spare), and over this campaign broken a host of Bayern Munich and Bundesliga records. Of course, you can’t please everyone, Munich legend Franz Beckenbauer included, but nevertheless former Barça star Samuel Eto’o seemed to go over the line recently with some comments in a BeIN SPORTS interview. There have been many thousands of words printed on the relationship between the pair and a host of theories as to why Guardiola let such a fantastic and productive player go, yet it seems that for Eto’o, it is not water under the bridge. I did some fact checking into this (and it appears legitimate) simply because I’ve always believed and maintain that Eto’o got an unfair rap regarding his personality in Barcelona, and therefore was rather shocked and disappointed with these very unnecessary comments.

 

“You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter. That was my role, but I had a very important role in the dressing room where I could say anything to anyone, looking them straight in the eye.”

“I first of all reminded Guardiola that he’d never been a great player. He was a good player, that’s true. I told him. As a coach, he had proven nothing. He came in and didn’t even know the story of the dressing room.”

“I talked to him and had a very good offer to go and play for six months in Uzbekistan where they would have given me 26 million dollars. In his office, he said to me: ‘That could do you good, go for it.’ I told him that Eto’o was the one who made him win and that he would come and ask for forgiveness. And I stayed. He never had the courage to say things to my face.”

“I didn’t want to speak to Guardiola until he had apologised. I spoke to him two times. Pep wanted to give me lessons on how to be a striker, but he was a midfielder. Pep told me how to move like a striker. I told him: ‘You’re not normal!’ The true story is that Pep didn’t respect the things in football.”

nisam neki fan pepa, ali eto'o je baš čovjek koji bi se odrekao 26 milji za 6 mjeseci igranja u neki vukojebini, moš mislit. nebi čovjek otišel u rusiju, da mu nisu samo pare važne. a zanimljivo, da ga smeta, kad ga bivši veznjak savjetuje o kretanju u napadu, al ga ne smeta, kad ga trener bez nogometne karijere koristi ko beka, odnosno smetalo ga dok mu nije ponudio ugovor u chelseaju.

pa hvala kurcu, da če ti trener govorit kako se kretat pa makar on bio golman u igračkoj karijeri, kak izgleda eto'o bi trebao jednog od hnl trenera ili slavka golužu, koji bi mu rekao, ti budi naprijed i ak dobiješ loptu probaj zabit