Glory Greenery

Chapter 170 Bayern's Problem

In the previous warm-up matches of Bayern Munich, Van Gaal mainly used two tactics, one is Bayern's traditional 442, and the other is Van Gaal's favorite 433.

If Van Gaal's starting formation is 433 in this game, then in Bayern's current lineup, Yang Mo is the best candidate for the left winger and has a great chance to start.

But if Van Gaal chooses 442, his hope of Yang Mo being able to start the game is somewhat hanging. After all, even when several main strikers are injured, there are still Gomez, Klose, Muller and others. compete.

"In this game, our starting formation is 442..."

As soon as Van Gaal opened his mouth, when Yang Mo heard 442's words, he immediately understood that he had little hope of starting the game.

However, with the only hope left, he suppressed the disappointment in his heart and listened carefully to what Van Gaal had to say.

"This time we maintain a diamond-shaped midfield position. Baumjohn you play as a midfielder this time, and Van Bommel you play as a fourth position this time..."

Following Van Gaal's arrangement, he uttered the names of players one after another, Schweinsteiger, Van Buyten, Tymoshchuk, Sosa, Bader Stubel...

Gradually, when Van Gaal finished talking about the midfielders, he finally read the names of the two forwards, Gomez and Klose.

Hearing this, the last bit of luck in Yang Mo's heart was completely shattered.

He was a little helpless to find that his first game in the giants Bayern seemed to be the same as in Twente, starting from the bench again.

But he wasn't the only one who was depressed at this time. Not far away, he saw Muller's eyes with obvious disappointment.

The young player who was promoted from Bayern's youth training by Van Gaal performed very well in the first few warm-up matches, and he also behaved very low-key and calm.

But now, no matter how low-key and calm he is on weekdays, it is clear that young people still have the emotions they should have when faced with the inability to start the game.

After arranging the starting lineup and personnel, Van Gaal gave a brief explanation, then led the players out of the locker room and rushed to the scene to prepare for the warm-up match.

Walking out of the player tunnel, Yang Mo first glanced at the surrounding stands before sitting on the bench.

The attendance rate of the Rhein Energy Stadium in this game is not high. The fans wearing the Cologne jerseys seem to have only done a quarter at most.

But it's just a warm-up match, so it's not bad to have so many people here.

But there is a saying that there is no harm without comparison. Compared with the sparse fans of the Cologne team, Yang Mo saw Bayern fans wearing red Bayern jerseys in the stands of the visiting team in the northwest of the stadium. There are thousands of people.

You must know that Munich is more than [-] kilometers away from Cologne, and all those who can follow so far for a warm-up match are all diehards of the team.

These diehard Bayern fans are singing neatly at this time, singing Bayern's famous team song, ForeverNo.1 (forever first).

When he visited the history of the Bayern club, he had heard Bayern chairman Hoeness mention this song, so he had some impressions.

Facing such a majestic chorus of Bayern fans, the Cologne fans, who had more than double the number of Bayern fans, were suppressed silently for a while.

If it weren't for everyone to see that the Bayern players were wearing white away team jerseys on the field, in terms of the momentum of the fans in the stands, some people would believe that this game is at Bayern's home court.

The game hadn't started yet, but in terms of the atmosphere of the fans in the stands alone, the Cologne team lost one city first.

And Yang Mo, who is already a Bayern player, finally for the first time does not need to envy the background of other teams. While enjoying it, he once again understands the background of the giants.

Accompanied by the singing, the starting players began to walk into the arena for the pre-match ceremony, while Yang Mo followed the head coach and the substitute players and sat on the bench.

With the whistle of the referee, the game started.

But at this moment, the singing of the Bayern fans in the stands suddenly changed, and they sang another song in unison.

But compared to the eternal number one, Yang Mo didn't know the name of this song.

Out of curiosity, Yang Mo asked his old teammate Edson Bluffhead who was sitting next to him, "Edson, what's the name of this song."

Hearing this, Brafhead thought for a while and replied, "It seems to be called Southern Star, which is a Bayern fan song."

Southern Star, Yang Mo nodded slightly.

Bayern has many nicknames, such as green Hollywood, Bundesliga class bully, but among them, Bayern fans most recognize the name Southern Star.

This fan song can be called Southern Star, and I think it is loved by fans.

In fact, what Yang Mo doesn't know is that there is another song that Bayern fans like, called mia san mia.

The name of this song, which is also Bayern's famous spiritual slogan, has been included in the upcoming official team album by Bayern together with the first two songs.

However, the fans in the stands were enthusiastic, but Bayern seemed to be unable to enter the state for a while during the game, playing a bit lukewarm.

After more than 20 minutes of the game, the score was still 0-0. Even though Yang Mo didn't dare to say how good his tactical appreciation was, he could see a lot of problems in his team.

Before coming to Bayern, he already had a simple understanding of Bayern. This team, known for its iron blood, was not known for its delicate skills before.

However, after the arrival of Van Gaal, who attaches great importance to possession of the ball, he hopes to transform Bayern into a team that plays with foot skills and relies on midfield passing and possession to cooperate with the attack based on his previous experience in Barcelona.

The result of this is that Bayern's players are very uncomfortable with the new tactics, and they did not have the effect Van Gaal wanted on the court.

The first is the problem of the midfielder. The Bayern midfielder does rely on constant possession and passing of the ball to control at least 70.00% of the ball from the beginning to the present.

But the problem is that this super high ball possession ratio not only cannot be converted into effective scoring opportunities, but also slows down the offensive rhythm and makes the game look extremely dull.

Among the midfielders, Baumjohann, who was transferred from Borussia Mönchengladbach this season, is not competent as a starting midfielder.

In the first 20 minutes of the warm-up match, Baumjohann repeatedly wasted opportunities and performed extremely poorly.

In addition to Baumjohn, on the front line, Gomez, who was also transferred this season, performed equally poorly.

In the previous few games, this German striker, whose footwork is not delicate, seemed very uncomfortable with Van Gaal's tactics.

Although there are a few games where he starts, he will be replaced by Van Gaal every 10 minutes or so, and he is often assigned to the substitute team for training in training games.

Obviously, Van Gaal is very dissatisfied with the performance of the 3000 million euro man.

In this way, this warm-up match entered the end of the first half in this dull rhythm.

Van Gaal, who had already been very dissatisfied with the performance of the players, had already stood on the court and yelled loudly for countless times.

But seeing that no matter how much he reprimanded him, the appearance on the field was still the same, Van Gaal had no choice but to look at the bench.

(End of this chapter)