For a month and a half of winter downtime, the fan manages to thoroughly forget about the Bundesliga. So the first match of the second round is always a chance to remind yourself loudly. And what could be better for a poster than the game “Borussia” - “Bavaria”? This is a German classic, albeit fading over the years, but still retaining an even golden glow.
80 thousand fans at the crowded Westfalenstadion (the new name is “Iduna Park Signal” can be perceived as a motto of Dortmund fans), a colorful show before the game, designed to revive the highlights of the World Cup, and the new Borussia coach is a wonderful prelude. It’s nice that the match itself didn’t let us down - Jurgen Reber won the first rober of his game in Dortmund. Starting with a victory over Bayern is always dangerous - having received a tasty first pancake, fans will continue to demand culinary masterpieces from the coach. However, now this is not so important - on the night of Saturday Dortmund walked!
Of course, Borussia won the match in the mood - the players believed in themselves to the last. Even lagging behind after the first half, the yellow-blacks did not particularly look back at the opponent. The team is now strong enough to win against Bayern at the limit of strength and energy.
Reber spent the whole winter break with Borussia. However, it was not possible to discern any new ideas in the team’s game. Even under Bert van van Marweika, she could play a brilliant game on the mood and courage, as, for example, in Bremen against the Bremen. The task of the Reber is precisely to transform these rare glimpses of genius into something solid, solid, solid. There is something to build from there. So everything will depend on the coach himself - a person with a rather controversial reputation. In the asset he has a pretty “Hertha” five years ago, in the liability - everything else.
Bavaria also did not turn in Dortmund to the forest in front, and to someone in the back. All the problems of the Munich club are understandable in this way: the current “Bayern” is much more dangerous in the Champions League than in its own championship. And the point here is not at all the lack of mood, as, for example, in Barcelona. It’s just that the personnel policy of recent years has led to the fact that Bavaria’s game options have diminished. It’s just hard for her to win match after match. Champions League is another matter. Every game there is an event, a holiday to which it is not a sin to approach in a special way. The championship of Germany (as well as of another country) is always a routine. And routine is being raked in the classroom. Bavaria does not have the class needed for this supply. In summer, large-scale changes in the composition are expected, money has already been allocated for the purchase of new players. But all this will come later. And now, the trump cards of Munich are the simplicity of the game, proven options with minimal risks. In the long run, this is most likely not enough to win.
That is why the Bremen “Werder Bremen” - the team with a remarkably set game - seems to be the main favorite of the championship. In the inter-circle, the team of Thomas Schaaf confidently defeated rivals in friendly games and, most likely, was approaching spring in good health and alertness. For most Bundesliga teams, the Werder Bremen is able to score three goals - enough to win. The only problem of Bremen is still a short bench. Injuries to several leaders can knock a team off the beat. However, “Bavaria” now does not have any superiority over “Werder Bremen” in terms of personnel - and the Munich reserve is poor. Especially with the end of Dysler’s career, on which the Bayern coaches reckoned on in the second round.
Theoretically, even Schalke and Stuttgart could intervene in the dispute over the “silver salad bowl”. However, the team Armin Fe already jumped in the first round to where they did not wait. Most likely, after the break, “Stuttgart” will decline. It’s one thing to win at a youthful retirement, it’s quite another to win on schedule. And the rivals will now have a completely different attitude to Stuttgart.
As for Schalke, this team has been trying for five years to gain a foothold in the elite, to back the Bayern with a shoulder. But she is missing something all the time. So the current Schalke leaves a similar impression: everything seems to be normal and even good, but you are inevitably waiting for troubles. A club from Gelsenkirchen can win the championship, however, as they say, the third number is a silent glanders. If the Bayern completely clumsy, if the Bremen breaks down ...
“Mine, said Eugene is menacing” - this is not about Schalke 04. And the inscription "Gazprom", flaunting on blue T-shirts, is not yet able to change the situation.
Kirill DEMENTYEV
BORUSSIA D - BAVARIA - 3: 2 (1: 2)
Goals: 1: 0 - Fry (12), 1: 1 - van Beiten (25), 1: 2 - Makaay (42), 2: 2 - Fry (57), 3: 2 - Tinga (59).
BAVARIA: Caen, Lam, Lusio, Sagnol, van Beiten, Karimi (Podolski, 61), Salihamidžić (Demichelis, 46), van Bommel (Scholl, 80), Schweinsteiger, Makaay, Pizarro.
BORUSSIA D: Weidenfeller, Degen, Bzhenska, Metzelder, Dede, Krushka, Thinga, Kringe, Pienar (Amedik, 86), Fry (Sakhin, 73), Smolyarek (Valdes, 46).
Warnings: van Bommel (38), Pizarro (83).
January 26th . "Signal-Iduna Park".
Judge: Manuel Grefe (Berlin).