Is Julian Nagelsmann confident enough as a Bayern coach?
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The Bayern coach’s recent performances, such as his gaffe in Gladbach, do not question his tactical skills. But is he confident enough to lead the record champion team?
In the past eight days, football Germany has not only been able to gaze in amazement at the quite different faces of FC Bayern. It also saw a trainer who gave strangely fluctuating impressions. First a week ago against Bochum, when Julian Nagelsmann didn’t spend a good part of the half-time break with his team in the dressing room, but on the iPad in the dugout – in a way that has to be demonstratively called, and not to his advantage: when he’s his Wanted to tickle players to be more proactive, he could have done that without putting himself in the shop window.
Then on Tuesday in Paris, when Nagelsmann gave a mostly favorable picture by combining a tactically convincing concept against Messi, Neymar and Co. with confident charisma on the sidelines (although Monsieur Mbappé clouded the picture a bit in the final quarter of an hour). And now on Saturday in Mönchengladbach, when you had to ask yourself after the game what on earth had gotten into this man.
