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Berlin.– Bayern Munich opened the new season at the Allianz Arena with a dull victory over Freiburg to top the Bundesliga, which has just begun, in a game in which they showed more defensive security than on the first day. But he lacked offensive ideas.
The man who would become Barcelona’s opponent in the Champions League designed from the start a more lateral approach than usual, constantly looking to generate space through the circulation of the ball, trying to apply the hypothesis of the Belgian Vincent Kompany, but it was ineffective.
Up front, he found a perfectly armed opponent who, after a promising start to the league, had shown a positive energy by defeating runners-up Stuttgart, who were waiting for their chance to try to seize the Bavarian colours. He achieved this in a literal sense: he played on the home ground of the Bayern team, which was wearing white jerseys. In a figurative sense, which was important for football, he was left aside, although he made a valuable impression.
Bayern has the ball. He moves it, touches it, but doesn’t know what to do with it. The human wall designed by the opponent coach Julian Schuster leaves the local midfielders with no space and constantly hesitating: whether to obey the coach’s instructions or succumb to the vertical drive that has been their lifelong characteristic.
Until someone who had both of these abilities came along. It was necessary to activate a spring that could shake up the game, and the man who did that was Michael Olise. The talented and powerful Frenchman first sent a superb long pass, Gnabry almost found Musiala in front of the goal, but when the ball almost landed in the winger’s boot, he was blocked by a defender.
Minutes later he forced goalkeeper Florian Muller into intervention for the first time after a deliberate left-foot shot, while second choice, also Frenchman Matisse Tell, failed to finish.
From there, a break and another period of dull football. Minutes passed without any danger, the Bavarians were unable to unlock Freiburg’s defense and the field was full of doubts… until the game started.
After half an hour, Harry Kane headed the ball into the penalty area, and his shot accidentally hit the left forearm of defender Max Rosenfeld. The referee, who completely ignored the contact, received a VAR warning and issued the maximum penalty after checking the monitor. The England striker did not forgive from the eleventh meter.
At the end of the first half, there was a feeling that the Bavarians had taken too much credit. And Freiburg, too many penalties. After the restart, the script continued along the same lines: Bayern and Schuster’s players waited for their chances, and the ball was dull and ineffective.
They were close to achieving that goal in the 11th minute of the second half when a ball into the box was deliberately redirected into the penalty area by Lucas Kubler, who came in alone from the right, but his pass was intercepted by Neuer. The Austrian Adami was already prepared mentally.
A moment later, there was another occasion where this was even more evident, as Osterhager’s shot was deflected by the Bavarian defence and bounced off his own head, nearly surprising the Bayern captain.
Kompany’s side sent on Thomas Muller and the controversial Kingsley Coman, and Freiburg, uncomplicated by the uncertainty of Kompany’s side, began to look for an equaliser. He pushed forward and began to take the ball away from the six-time European champions. Given the situation, the Belgian coach made more changes to calm down his opponents, and Bayern regained the initiative.
Coman nearly scored with his second effort, and Muller, who surpassed Sepp Maier on the day to become the Bavarian team’s most capped player in history, cleverly controlled Gnabry’s cross and fired the ball into the box with his foot. Freiburg’s goal gave the beleaguered parish at the Allianz Arena some comfort.
In the final minutes, the local fans gave their idol a warm applause, and the visitors hoped to score a goal to mark their away performance. But Holler converted a penalty kick from Palinha in stoppage time.
Despite a poor performance in the match, with this victory Bayern seized Leverkusen (first defeat in the Bundesliga after 35 games) and the setback of Dortmund on Saturday to put themselves on a par with Leipzig (executioner of Xabi Alonso’s team) and surprising Heidenheim as the only teams in the Bundesliga to have taken the first six points.
— Technical Sheet
2 – Bayern Munich: Neuer; Kimmich, Kim, Upamecano (Goretzka, m. 90), Warriors; Gnabry, Pavlovic (Palhinha, m. 74), Musiala (Laimer, m. 74); Tel (Coman, m. 59), Olise (Müller, m. 59) and Kane
0 – Fribourg: Muller; Rosenfelder, Günter (Ogbus, m. 81), Kübler (Makengo, m. 81), Lienhart, Osterhage (Höler, m. 72); Grifo (Sallai, m. 63), Eggestein, Röhl (Dinkçi, m. 63), Doan; Iadam
Goers: 1-0, m.38: Kane. 2-0, m.78: Muller
Referee: Christian Dingert. In the 31st minute, Upamecano was given a yellow card.
Event: The second day of the Bundesliga match at the Allianz Arena. Before kick-off, Harry Kane received the award for last season’s top scorer and presented honors to the team that won the European Cup for the first time in Bayern’s history in 1974. EFE./Go
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