This two excerpts are what I love most from this article, and also shows Kompany, at least so far, does pay attention to our *weakness* for the last couple of seasons: not strong enough against press during build up
>”*Short, quick passes, where Bayern players rarely held on to the ball for more than 2 or 3 seconds, meant Leverkusen was unable to press, or even to get the ball back,* ***as both man marking and zonal marking were futile against Bayern’s quick tempo in possession.*****”**
>”*Leverkusen* ***tried man to man pressing on a few occasions, to no avail****, because Bayern’s shifting build up structures with lots of position switching made it very difficult to mark a single player.*”
Ever since 2020 treble season, which coincides with Thiago leaving, we saw a glaring issues where we often getting exposed during build up, where either our CBs had to fought through opponents pressing, or one that I often brought up: Kimmich getting boxed by opponents.
Arguably, constantly pairing him with Goretzka, or JN fielding him in a 3-1-3-3 structure, or Kimmich himself responded with *”I am a 6″* when the fan base were heating up last season didn’t do him much favor, but we saw huge improvements this season, and once again we saw how much a *right* coaching can do wonders for team such as Bayern. It always bogged my mind how Tuchel never even bothered to try pairing Kimmich and Pavlovic when the teams are *mostly* the same as what we have right now.
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This two excerpts are what I love most from this article, and also shows Kompany, at least so far, does pay attention to our *weakness* for the last couple of seasons: not strong enough against press during build up
>”*Short, quick passes, where Bayern players rarely held on to the ball for more than 2 or 3 seconds, meant Leverkusen was unable to press, or even to get the ball back,* ***as both man marking and zonal marking were futile against Bayern’s quick tempo in possession.*****”**
>”*Leverkusen* ***tried man to man pressing on a few occasions, to no avail****, because Bayern’s shifting build up structures with lots of position switching made it very difficult to mark a single player.*”
Ever since 2020 treble season, which coincides with Thiago leaving, we saw a glaring issues where we often getting exposed during build up, where either our CBs had to fought through opponents pressing, or one that I often brought up: Kimmich getting boxed by opponents.
Arguably, constantly pairing him with Goretzka, or JN fielding him in a 3-1-3-3 structure, or Kimmich himself responded with *”I am a 6″* when the fan base were heating up last season didn’t do him much favor, but we saw huge improvements this season, and once again we saw how much a *right* coaching can do wonders for team such as Bayern. It always bogged my mind how Tuchel never even bothered to try pairing Kimmich and Pavlovic when the teams are *mostly* the same as what we have right now.