Chapter 182: Royce wants to be the core
Away at Bremen, Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich met with stubborn resistance, and the home team's defense once made Bayern players feel uncomfortable.
But in the end, with successive goals from Gustavo and Mandzukic in the second half, Bayern defeated Bremen to achieve six consecutive wins in the league at the beginning of the new season and firmly sit at the top of the standings.
Bayern challenged Bremen away, and before the game, people thought that Bayern would take an early lead away from home against Bremen, which has been weaker in recent years.
However, due to the fatigue of Bayern's players and Bremen, who have always been heavy on attack and light on defense, suddenly put on an iron bucket formation, the Bundesliga leaders were helpless in the first half, and Ribery's shot hit the post made many fans lament that Bayern did not have "goal luck" in this game.
However, after Mandzukic came on, Bayern were clearly more threatening with a strong fulcrum, and in the end he also sealed the win with a counter-attacking goal, Mandzukic led the Bundesliga scorers with six goals.
In fact, Mandzukic can continue to score goals, relying not only on his excellent running ability, but also on his excellent shooting skills, taking the game against Bremen as an example, Bayern's entire team only had 5 shots on target from 14 shots, Mandzukic alone 3 shots on goal 2 shots on target and scored 1 goal, he can be called the team's efficiency king.
In the nine official games of the new season, except for the Champions League group stage against Valencia and the league against Schalke, Mandzukic scored every game, and the Croatian has scored six goals in six league games to lead the Bundesliga scorer list.
Bayern Munich are just one game away from their all-time best start to the Bundesliga and will be equal with a win over Hoffenheim next weekend, and it seems only a matter of time before Bayern are on the rise.
Since the start of the new season, only three teams in Europe's top five leagues have maintained a complete league record, namely Bayern Munich, Barcelona, and Marseille.
Thereinto. Bayern Munich is in hot form, winning all 6 league games and firmly sitting at the top of the standings, not to mention, the efficiency on the field is also commendable, so far Bayern has scored 19 goals in the league and conceded only 2 goals, both goals scored and goal difference, is the most among the three teams.
Bayern deputy Schweinsteiger said in an interview. Bayern's biggest rival in the Champions League is Barcelona, and now Bayern have a narrow victory over their opponents.
With six consecutive league wins, Bayern Munich is one step away from the best league start in Bundesliga history: seven wins in a row. The previous best start to the Bundesliga was seven wins in a row, with Kaiserslautern in 2001-2002 and Bayern Munich in 1995-1996 both starting seven in a row.
Now Bayern Munich host Hoffenheim, who have been in average form this season, next weekend, and a win will not be a problem for the Southern Stars, who could well replicate their best start to the league season with seven consecutive wins.
Bayern Munich's performance after the big investment this season has also caused a huge obstacle to Dortmund's road to defending the title, and it is clear that Dortmund have let Barrios go this season. The former Borussia Dortmund leading scorer played a big role for Dortmund, but unfortunately in the face of the rising Lewandowski, Barrios had to give up his main position and go to the Chinese Super League to find his own way.
After the team introduced Musassisoko, Reus, Papastathopoulos, Kirsch, Bitancourt, Schiebert and others, so many players have a great impact on the tacit understanding between the players, among which the fastest integration is Musassisoko, so the French midfielder has performed very well after joining Dortmund, as a sapper-type back. Musassisoko did a good job of protecting the penalty area and cutting off the opposition's passing routes. His performance was well worth the transfer fee paid by Borussia Dortmund, which many considered to be a good value.
Papastathopoulos has been looking for opportunities on the bench, but Papastathopoulos only has some problems with Hummels' tacit understanding, but Papastathopoulos's strength is still stronger than Subotic, and Klopp is not good at directly taking Subotic, the team's defending meritorious player, from the starting position, so Klopp is just slowly increasing Papastathopoulos's playing time. Slowly put Papastathopoulos in the starting position.
The biggest problem is Reuss, Reuss has always been the number one star of Mönchenbach in Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the team's tactics are mainly based on Reus, giving full play to Reuss's good skills and fast speed, which made Reuss have a big explosion last season.
But after coming to Dortmund. Reus found that the core of Dortmund's tactics revolved around Guan Peng and Gotze, and even Gotze's tactical position was a little worse than Guan Peng, which surprised Reus and was a little difficult to accept, originally Reus thought that after he came to Dortmund, Klopp would establish himself as the core of the team.
I didn't think that he was not as valued by Klopp as he imagined, and his popularity in the Dortmund team was not as good as Guan Peng's in Dortmund, after all, they won the double last season together and fought side by side with each other for more than a year, this kind of relationship is not something that Reus can have when he first comes to the team.
Even fans think that their starting position should be given to Dortmund's local player Grosskloyz, Reus has always been very dissatisfied, what is this called, not only did he not become a core player here, but he couldn't even get a starting position, Klopp also found that Reuss's mood has not been good recently.
"Marco, what's on your mind?" Klopp called Royce.
"No, I'm fine." Royce only managed to squeeze out a smile when he said it.
"I know you're bothered that I didn't think of you as the heart of the team, right?" Klopp's wise eyes saw through Royce's thoughts at once.
“…… Yes, I'm a little dissatisfied in my heart, my strength is no worse than Mario and Guan, why can't I be the core of them? Royce looked at Klopp and said.
"Marko, do you know, Mario has always been a talented player cultivated by Dortmund himself, so it is a matter of course that he becomes the core of the team, as for Guan, his luck is really good, when I came to the team before, I just valued him more, but I thought that later Mario was injured, Guan was established by me as the absolute core of the team, and other players have also formed a good tacit understanding with him, which is not comparable to ordinary people." (To be continued.) )