Because Lewandowski is gone?
Nagelsmann and Kimmich explain new super attribute of FC Bayern
Created: 08/23/2022, 04:57
By: Patrick Mayer
Dominating the Bundesliga again: FC Bayern with coach Julian Nagelsmann (Wednesday).
© IMAGO / Moritz Müller
Coaches Julian Nagelsmann and Joshua Kimmich describe FC Bayern's new strength in one word in Munich.
The distancing from Robert Lewandowski is striking.
Munich - How much are 344 goals and 72 assists in 375 competitive games worth a few weeks after leaving?
At Bayern, they don't mourn ex-scorer Robert Lewandowski publicly - and they don't do it demonstratively.
His former team-mates "definitely don't seem to miss him," writes the
Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
after Bayern Munich's 7-0 thrashing of VfL Bochum, which once again made the Bundesliga shudder.
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"The energy we have in the team now is very, very good.
Everyone gives everything to everyone.
That wasn't always the case last year," said FCB coach Julian Nagelsmann after the game in the Ruhr area in an interview with
DAZN
.
A (less) friendly reference to Lewandowski, who is said to have criticized the coach at the end of last season?
The fact is: The 35-year-old from Upper Bavaria has completely changed his team's game within weeks, away from a "real" nine (LewandowskI) to several "false" nines (Müller, Mané, Gnabry, Musiala, Coman, Sané) , to put it in the tactical language of ex-FCB coach Pep Guardiola.
The four attackers in the front only have fixed positions on the piece of paper, or, to put it more football-like, on the original tactics board in the dressing room.
So it is part of the Bayern game in August 2022 to completely overwhelm the opponent with cross changes and deep runs behind the teammate.
There is no longer the one target player in the six-yard box that Lewandowski had for years.
Instead, positions are constantly swapped.
Defending made difficult.
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But that's not all: As if it were a computer game in which the performance of the kickers is measured using colored bars - as with relevant consoles - everything on Säbener Straße in Munich suddenly revolves around "energy".
The term is now used so inflationary, as if it were the new super attribute of the German Bundesliga record champions - in a post-Lewandowski era.
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“The most beautiful thing is the energy you can feel.
It was great that the boys were celebrating with the fans.
Sadio (
Mané, ed
.) on the fence, you can feel a very, very good energy there, ”said Nagelsmann on
DAZN
when his Bavarians had just dismantled Eintracht Frankfurt 6-1 on the first day of the game.
And newcomer Mané became the animator of the ultras.
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Everyone gives everything to everyone.
That wasn't always the case last year.
FCB coach Julian Nagelsmann
Joshua Kimmich, meanwhile, said after the Bochum goal festival: "It's a lot of fun at the moment because there's good energy in the squad." since you have three or four players who can go deep, then you are of course more flexible in the passing game.
You have even more stations that you can allude to.
In that respect, it's even more comfortable for a midfielder," said Kimmich about the new tactical approach in attack.
Longing for the former goalgetter sounds different.
Robert Lewandowski: malice from Bayern fans - Giovane Elber thinks Munich "liberated"
When Lewandowski scored his first brace for FC Barcelona on Sunday (August 21) on his 34th birthday and FC Bayern politely congratulated the day of honor via Twitter, obviously not every fan of the Bundesliga giants liked it.
Malice and ridicule piled up in the comments on social media - for all his merits in recent years.
FCB brand ambassador Giovane Elber even sees Bayern "liberated" without the former goalscorer.
Arrived at FC Barcelona: goalscorer Robert Lewandowski.
© IMAGO/Ricardo Larreina
"After Robert Lewandowski's departure, many asked themselves what FC Bayern is doing up front now.
But Julian Nagelsmann managed it very well, also with the new players like Sadio Mané, for example.
He is now up front with Serge Gnabry, while Thomas Müller and Jamal Musiala keep coming up from the attacking midfield.
FC Bayern has become very variable," said the 50-year-old Brazilian in an interview with
t-online
.
"I think the team feels liberated without Lewandowski.
She plays her football.
Everyone knows what they have to do to be successful.”
I think the team feels liberated without Lewandowski.
FCB brand ambassador Giovane Elber
Elber continued: “Musiala is also exempt from this.
It combines and harmonizes well with the others.
But nobody is angry with him if he tries something alone – and maybe loses the ball.” How would Lewandowski have been?
The people of Munich emancipate themselves from the super striker at express speed.
And according to their own statements, they draw a lot of “energy” from it.
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