“My Bayern” is the name of the column by SPORT BILD reporter legend Raimund Hinko, which deals with the German record champions. Hinko has been with Munich for decades.
Dear Joshua Kimmich,
even if your saying flies in your face for the 737th time after the loss in the preliminary round of the World Cup – it won’t be the last time. Even if everyone at the club wants to protect you, and coach Julian Nagelsmann tried to persuade you that you would be your old self again, that you would burn again, which of course is the case – you were still right. You fell into the hole you feared after the World Cup. Everyone who witnessed the end of the World Cup in Qatar suffers. The hole is clearly visible, larger than the crater of spewing Etna in Sicily.
maturity forecast
What is currently changing fundamentally at Bayern
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I don’t want to harp on about the fact that you were guilty of Leipzig’s 1-1 draw. That you should have simply smashed the ball away in front of Marcel Halstenberg’s equalizing goal – even if you never admitted that before this damn World Cup. It’s just that the opponents have become bolder. That they man-mark you close to their own penalty area. That they bump into you, tug at your jersey, fiddle around in front of your nose – are more annoying than a swarm of flies.
And if you as a 6 are no longer able to play a leisurely build-up game in the style of the former 6 aces Xabi Alonso or Thiago Alcantara, then an 8 like the powerful Leon Goretzka will also suffer, especially a 10 like Jamal Musiala, who probably has his strength or has to waste badly in self-sacrificing pressing runs because there is no longer any opportunity for his fine passes and dribbling. The opponents are just closer at the back than usual.
Now you can argue that the Leipzigers have a damn mature midfield, especially in the defensive combination with the two Ösis Konrad Laimer and Xaver Schlager, whereby the former will probably play next to you in midfield next season, dear Joshua. But this 1-1 draw against Leipzig was probably not a real top game, because both teams were actually quite happy with the 1-1 draw, which was obvious. The right chunks will only come to Munich full of self-confidence this week.
The people of Cologne are euphoric after the 7-1 win against Werder Bremen, have always felt comfortable in Munich and will certainly attack. And Frankfurt, the new second in the table, seems ready for big things. Everyone at Bayern will probably agree with me when I say that the red jersey would suit this light-footed Dane in the kit with the eagle, this Jesper Lindstrom. Even if Hasan “Brazzo” Salihamidzic can’t buy everything that would make Bayern even stronger. Lindstrom must be on the candidate list.
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Touchy topic …
Brazzo criticizes new confidants!
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For now you have to be happy if Frankfurt, Freiburg or Union Berlin don’t shake your throne too hard at the top of the table. What the Frankfurters can do on Saturday from 6.30 p.m. I had an idea, which of course is not mandatory for Julian Nagelsmann, but which could be promising. I would prefer you, Joshua, to 10 – and withdraw Musiala to 6. That would be good for both of them. You could live out your offensive urge to your heart’s content, you wouldn’t have to run forward with every corner kick, from right to left and vice versa. Musiala, on the other hand, could – as briefly tested in previous months – put his great organizational talent into the game structure with automatically more ball contacts. The opponent would be surprised and would have to reorient themselves first. An interplay between you two would also make sense if Bayern would give a new quality – and the World Cup hole would be closed. There would also be more music on the left wing with Kingsley Coman playing from the start, along with the musical Alphonso Davies.
I don’t want to start with Paris St. Germain again. And don’t argue that you, Joshua, should then be assigned as a right-back again to keep Kylian Mbappé in check. Against Lionel Messi in the first leg on February 14 in Paris, prayer is probably the only thing that will help anyway.
In any case, January and February will decide where Bavaria is headed. And I prefer you, dear Joshua, always storming than a burr for Mbappé.
