Chapter 222 Guardiola: Give Manchester City a little Bundesliga shock!

December 11, Allianz Arena, Munich.

12 minutes have passed in the match between Manchester City and Bayern, and the score is 2:0. The home team is in front and the away team is behind.

The situation was almost exactly the same as the last time they met. Bayern suppressed Manchester City with a powerful offensive at the beginning and scored a goal.

The difference is that this time Bayern scored more goals, they scored two goals.

The goals for Bayern were scored by Muller and Gotze.

Looking at the score on the field, the Bayern fans who came to the Allianz Arena were collectively excited.

They thought the team would win, but they didn't expect the team to take such a big lead at the start.

Manchester City has never lost on any front this season. The last time the two sides met, the opponent even reversed and defeated them at home.

This made Bayern fans subconsciously think that this game might be very difficult. Even if they could win, they would have to pay a huge price and win very hard.

But what they didn't expect was that they had already taken such a big lead in just over ten minutes.

According to the Champions League promotion rules, if two teams have the same points and the same win-loss record, they will be ranked based on goal difference.

Among these, the goal difference in direct matches between the two teams is ranked first. If even this is the same, then look at the total goal difference.

In the last round, Bayern lost to Manchester City with a score of 2:3, and they only lost by one goal.

If they can beat Manchester City 2:0 this time, they will overtake Manchester City in goal difference.

Therefore, according to this score, Bayern will replace Manchester City and get first place in Group D.

Seeing this score, the Bayern fans who had originally had doubts about Guardiola all began to sing praises for him.

The reporters who arrived at the scene had already started to prepare their plans in their minds, thinking about how to praise Guardiola and the Bayern team under his leadership.

Ranked first in the league points and remained unbeaten, and qualified as the first in the Champions League group. This record is even better than last season.

This kind of record is certainly worth boasting about!

In the box of the Allianz Arena, Rummenigge smiled and applauded after seeing Gotze's goal.

"Guardiola has done a good job. The team's performance and stability have improved significantly compared to last season."

If they can defeat Manchester City and take first place in the group in this game, they will be in a favorable position in the knockout stage and it will be easy for them to advance to the quarterfinals.

"Haha, although Guardiola's coaching style is different from Heynckes', his coaching ability is still unquestionable."

Hoeness, who was standing by, saw that Rummenigge was very satisfied with Guardiola, so he immediately gave him some compliments.

Sammer looked at the other person speechlessly. In his impression, Hoeness didn't have such a high opinion of Guardiola before.

"Well, Muller has improved. I think he plays smarter than before, right, Mathias?"

Sammer nodded: "Muller and Kroos have made great progress, and Lahm has become more comprehensive, but..."

Guardiola's arrival has injected fresh blood into Bayern.

Under his training, Bayern players' skills became more and more sophisticated, and their cooperation on the field became better.

Their technical and tactical style is gradually tending to be closer to that of La Liga teams, which is a change that makes him very happy.

However, some of Guardiola's reforms have made things a bit difficult for the club.

For example, Guardiola doesn't like to use or is not good at using center forwards.

This has led to a very tense relationship between Mandzukic and Guardiola. The former has put pressure on the club through his agent: if his starting position can no longer be guaranteed, Mandzukic is likely to leave Bayern.

With Gomez having been released, Mandzukic is now Bayern's only reliable genuine striker.

If he leaves, Bayern will have no strong center forward available.

Although Guardiola doesn't like to use center forwards, Bayern is a top club and cannot be without players who play this role.

Fortunately, Bayern's transfer list does have alternative players, such as Dortmund striker Lewandowski.

Sammer remembered that the other party's contract would expire next summer, and Dortmund had not yet completed the contract renewal with the other party, which meant that the other party had the intention to leave Dortmund.

In that case, why not try to get in touch with him and if he is interested, just buy him.

So he took this opportunity to mention this matter.

"Dortmund's No. 9? He is indeed a good center forward. If we can sign him for free, it will be a good deal."

Rummenigge is impressed by Lewandowski, the guy who once scored a hat trick for Bayern and snatched away their championship trophy.

Apart from Lin Quan last season, Lewandowski is the second striker in the Bundesliga who impressed him.

Bayern is good at acting as a digger in the Bundesliga, discovering outstanding players from other teams.

The benefit of doing so is not only that it can save a lot of transfer fees, but also that it can weaken the strength of its competitors and make Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga even stronger.

"Chairman, Schweinsteiger is a little unhappy about not being able to start. You see..."

Club manager Hoeness saw that Rummenigge was in a good mood, so he took the opportunity to speak.

The arrival of Gotze and Thiago has made the competition in Bayern's midfield more intense, and Schweinsteiger's starting position is no longer so stable.

In addition, Schweini has been injured more often than not, which has led to Guardiola's recent tendency to abandon him.

Just like this game, such an important game, Schweinsteiger was not even included in Guardiola's roster.

Schweini is a genuine Bayern youth player. He joined Bayern at the age of 14 and has played for Bayern for more than 15 years.

Bayern cannot discard such a meritorious veteran or clean him out roughly.

That would dishearten the veteran players and arouse dissatisfaction among the fans.

So, Hoeness originally planned to have a talk with Guardiola.

However, after seeing Guardiola's team achieve such good results, he felt a little lacking in confidence.

"Yeah, I got it!"

Rummenigge nodded, indicating that he knew about it, but did not make it clear that he would intervene.

Among Bayern's 11 players, except for Dante and Ribery who are 30 years old and Lahm who is close to 30 years old, the rest of the players are very young.

Goalkeeper Neuer is 27 years old and has just entered his prime. He can still play for Bayern for at least seven or eight years or even ten years!

Defenders Boateng and Alaba are 25 and 21 years old respectively, and can play for Bayern for at least ten years!

The three midfielders Thiago, Gotze and Kroos were all born in the 1990s. The oldest Kroos is only 23 years old, and the youngest Gotze is only 21 years old. There is no problem for them to play for Bayern for ten years.

Muller in the frontcourt was born in 1989 and is only 24 years old this year. It is no problem for him to play for another eight or nine years.

Mandzukic is the same age as Neuer and is also in his prime.

If he leaves and is replaced by Lewandowski, born in 1988, Bayern's lineup will become even younger.

As long as they can keep these players, Bayern will not need to make any adjustments to its main framework in the next ten years.

These players are not only young but also very strong. More importantly, they have all proven their strength at Bayern.

Once Guardiola has completely finalized Bayern's technical and tactical play, Bayern's record will not decline too much even if he leaves Bayern.

In this case, it is actually difficult for the club to interfere with his reforms of the team.

The most Rummenigge could do was to calm Schweinsteiger down and then have a chat with Guardiola to see if he could get him to take a step back.

However, Rummenigge actually supports and even appreciates Guardiola's bold move to use young players.

Guardiola has always been praised by the outside world for being good at using young players, good at training young players, and willing to give young players the opportunity to play.

Bayern invited him to coach because of this point.

They hope Guardiola can help Bayern achieve a smooth transition after winning the championship and lay the foundation for the next rise.

It now seems that Guardiola has perfectly completed the tasks assigned to him.

More importantly, after transforming Bayern's team lineup, he also maintained excellent results in both the league and the Champions League.

What else can we ask of a coach like this?

Therefore, even Rummenigge would not dare to ruin his relationship with Guardiola at this time.

If I get angry and run away, where can I find such a good coach? ...

On the sidelines, Guardiola did not seem very excited when he saw his team take the lead early.

In order to defeat Manchester City in this game, he made some adjustments to his tactical play.

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Although he is not good at using center forward, he still put Mandzukic in the starting lineup.

As it turned out, this decision was very correct.

Mandzukic acted as a fulcrum in the frontcourt, and his passing created favorable conditions for Bayern's attack.

Muller's first goal was assisted by Mandzukic, and Gotze's goal also had a lot to do with him.

But now that we are ahead in the score, the opponent is likely to launch a counterattack.

Guardiola was considering whether to replace Mandzukic with a fast winger who could break through in the second half. In this way, when Manchester City attacked them, they could try to use their speed to counterattack.

But unfortunately, Robben is injured, and now only Ribery is left in the Robben-Ribery combination.

Fortunately, Shaqiri is sitting on the bench. Although his strength is not as good as Robben, he is enough.

But it's still early now, and Manchester City can't just sit there and do nothing after falling behind.

Thinking of this, Guardiola's eyes turned to the young player on the field wearing the light blue No. 10 jersey.

Lin, your team is in dire straits, what will you do?

On the field, Manchester City players were a little confused.

Bayern’s strength is indeed strong, completely different from the opponents they encountered in the league.

The last time they played at home, they were suppressed by Bayern and had difficulty breathing.

This time after coming to the opponent's home court, this feeling became even stronger.

Pellegrini lost trust in Pantilimon due to his poor performance in the league.

This time, Manchester City's starting goalkeeper was replaced by Joe Hart.

However, in the first half, Joe Hart's goal was breached twice by the opponent.

This made Joe Hart feel a little frustrated and very nervous, fearing that he would be replaced by the coach in anger.

Fortunately, Pellegrini did not take his anger out on the goalkeeper because of these two goals.

The Chilean engineer is now more worried about the team's defensive problems. He started to transform the team's defense when he first joined Manchester City.

We tried various defender combinations, but the results were still unsatisfactory.

In the past, they often lost the ball when facing the attack of weak teams in the Premier League. Now, when they are on the road, facing the powerful Bayern Munich, they expect this defense line to not lose a single goal? Dream on!

But he didn't expect that the goals would be lost so early and in such large quantities!

We were two goals behind after just 12 minutes, this situation was too passive!

"Bayern seemed to have seen through our defensive characteristics, and their attack was very targeted!"

"Mandzukic was just a cover today. He only acted as a fulcrum in Bayern's attack. However, the presence of Muller, the second striker, did not reduce Bayern's threat in the middle!"

The first goal conceded came from Mandzukic's back pass, and Muller shot forward without being marked.

This was a defensive mistake by Manchester City. After changing his defensive strategy, Muller began to move to the side and cooperate with the players on the wing to launch an attack on Manchester City's back line.

Bayern's full-backs are very good at assisting, and the strength of their wingers is even more outrageous.

After Muller joined in, Manchester City's flanks were undoubtedly broken.

Gotze's second goal came from the wing! Now they didn't know what to do!

I feel that no matter which position we strengthen the defense in, it will be of no avail.

Pellegrini glanced at Bayern's coaching bench with some fear. It seemed that all his decisions had been seen through by that man in advance.

He felt this way the last time he was at the Etihad Stadium.

This time at the Allianz Arena, this feeling is even more obvious!

Pellegrini was a little frustrated. Could it be that he really couldn't beat this man? Seeing that the coaching staff had not made any adjustments, the players on the field could not wait any longer. They gathered together and discussed.

"We're already behind, why not just give it a try and attack!"

What's the point of hiding in your own half and defending when you're two goals behind? To win the first place in the group, you must attack and score goals!

"Okay, I don't want to defend anymore. I've been wanting to rush out and beat them up for a long time!"

"That's right, no matter how strong Bayern is, it's not like we haven't won before!"

"We were able to defeat them last time, and we can do it this time too!"

The players talked to each other and their morale was successfully boosted.

Although they were two goals behind, there was no expression of frustration or panic on their faces, only anger and dissatisfaction.

Obviously, Manchester City players have not lost their fighting spirit and are even a little angry.

"Lin, which side do you want to hit?"

As the core of Manchester City's frontcourt offense, the players all looked at Lin Quan, waiting for him to make a choice.

Lin Quan took a look and saw Ribery on the left side of Bayern and Gotze on the right side.

He has played against both of them. If he were to make an evaluation, Gotze is clearly the weaker of the two. He is not as strong as Ribery in terms of physical confrontation or game experience.

In that case, let's play against Gotze this time.

"David, let's fight like this..."

He discussed with several players, and then they all looked at Gotze.

Gotze felt some unfriendly eyes looking at him. When he looked up, he met the gaze of Lin Quan and several other Manchester City players.

Seeing the smile on the other person's lips, Gotze felt puzzled.

You're two goals behind, and you can still laugh?

We should be the ones to laugh, right? However, after the game resumed, Gotze could no longer laugh.

Because he saw the core of Manchester City, who dribbled the ball and went straight to the goal and appeared in front of him.

(End of this chapter)