BayernHerz

Here’s your answer:

I live in India, not America. I was 11 years old when I saw Oliver Kahn play in the 2002 World Cup. I fell in love with the player, the position, and the sport. I dedicated myself to the sport and actually managed to play it to a high level on a semipro level in my city, and it all began with Oliver Kahn.

I soon learnt he played for a club named Bayern, and that their primary color is red, which is my favorite color. I didn’t know much about them or how successful they are or anything, but I began to follow them for those 2 reasons.

Growing up in India, most around me were fans of the English clubs and the Spanish giants. I was mocked for being a Bayern fan and taunted during the mid 00s. I began to intently follow and understand how football worked in 06-07, a season where we finished 4th and did not qualify for the CL. The first club I saw retain the Bundesliga title was Borussia Dortmund. I saw Getafe almost destroy Bayern with 10 men, Zenit whoop this club, and Barça annihilate us long before I saw the club make a CL semifinal appearance. All while being surrounded by the kind of people you insinuate I am with your smug little condescending post, who had a field day with the club I chose from my heart.

Your extraordinarily poor assumption only serves to highlight your shitty mentality of feeling a sense of superiority based on some arbitrary bullshit. So, you can take your veiled insinuation that I am a glory hunter and your garbage attitude that international fans aren’t as sincere as local ones and do things with it that I can’t truly spell outright, but if you aren’t as daft as your initial post suggests, you’ll know exactly where to shove it.

Yes, I came across that. The match didn’t strike my memory. Regardless, the reason why this is far more noticeable/egregious is because of the fact that our thin squad already has suffered various injuries, and the manager had just spoken prior to the game all the concerns facing the squad with regards to fatigue/injury as they were coming back from international duty.

Improve your reading comprehension, my frustration has nothing to do with winning or losing or with the manner of our play.

This is the worst squad management in a game I have ever seen in my life as a Bayern fan. 17 odd years of watching this team and I have never seen a game where we made 0 subs. And for that to have happened with our low depth, our injuries, and it being right after the break… I am actually dumbfounded, fucking speechless.

I am a very vocal and firm believer that a coach must always be given time to grow his team and we must stop being reactionary… but this is not even up for debate, it’s beyond shambolic, beyond disgraceful. He saw the team run on absolutely empty with the risk of injury going higher with each minute they were on the pitch; he had absolute quality to come on against FUCKING KÖLN, and he chose to bring on nobody.

I have never been this stunned by a coaching decision in my life, and I’ve gone through coaches that were legitimately fucking atrocious like Klinsmann.

90 mins without a sub in a season filled with injuries, low squad depth, right after an international break is one of the most cruel things I have ever seen a coach do.

How do you talk about fatigue, international football carrying with it travel, the risk of injury, complain about having to play on Friday right after the break… and then not make a sub for 85 mins when you have the likes of Tel, Müller, and Gnabry on the bench (even if you are hesitant to bring on the youngsters or the severe at risk like Davies and Rapha)

The man was an out and out trickster winger who thrived on providing the dribble and getting into positions to provide assists. And despite that play style, he still managed about 125 goals in 400 games (which includes a period of about 60 odd games in his last 3 season when he was completely past his best as he had lost his pace and acceleration, where he scored like 15ish goals)… and the thing that I remember the most about him was, if it was a 1v1 or one which you felt he really ought to score, he almost certainly did.

If we had consistent scorers in the attacking midfield in the likes of Robben and Ribéry from the past… we’d be 7-0 up by now.

Kimmich is a world class CM who is an asset to any team he plays for, but he just doesn’t have the positional awareness to be the 6. Seeing him getting nicked off the ball is genuinely not a surprising thing… and that’s heartbreaking.

Great team goal, great movement in transition. Definitely could have been up by more, but at least we have the lead.

That is all Thomas Müller. So much had to be done. The way he holds it up, creates space for himself while doing so and then finds the perfect pass…

I don’t think I have ever seen a more intelligent forward in my life than our very own Müller.

No less than we deserved on the balance of the entire game.