Comments on: Bayern draws against Braga

By: Nuno

Nuno — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:03:52 +0000

Fair enough Jan.
I was not aware of that particular arrogance dispel from Bayern.
Cheers.

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By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:52:01 +0000

Nuno: no I didn’t expect a Bayern goal fest. Nor did I intend to belittle Braga or the Portuguese league. This is about Bayern Munich’s arrogance. They recently belittled Bremen, Schalke and Stuttgart for their poor CL performance. They plan to win the UEFA Cup and want to play a big role in next year’s Champions League, but so far they failed to back any of their claims with good performances.

By: Nuno

Nuno — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:45:48 +0000

Braga has an extremely interessant team, full of internationals. It is not a team easy to defeat, specially in their ground. In top of that, they have hired a good coach recently.
Yet it seems Juliet and Jan were expecting a Bayern goal fest… It seems like we have here a clear case of not knowing your enemy…
Bayern played agains one of the goods teams of the portuguese league, which is not that weak.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:03:16 +0000

Bayern have a great chance to capitalise on the Northern Derby. Either Bremen or Hamburg or both are bound to lose points, so unless Bielefeld cause the biggest upset of the season, Bayern will move clear a bit of at least one rival.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:18:08 +0000

You’ve got think it was pretty difficult to get up for a match against the seventh place team in the Portugese league. I think that the winter break will do them some good and get them back on track, because anything short of all victories the rest of the way will see them fall back of Werder Bremen or Hamburg or both.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:07:44 +0000

I’m really disappointed by Bayern’s UEFA Cup performance as well. Everyone was talking about how it’s a shame this team isn’t playing in the Champions League etc. But this Bayern Munich barely escaped Zagreb with a Toni Kroos inspired victory in overtime and drew against Bolton and Braga. What is astounding though, is that they are still top of their group, so a victory in their home match against Aris Saloniki will assure they’ll finish as group winners.

I only saw the second half, though I would give them the excuse that Braga were playing rather dirty, which the referee did little to stop and then Bayern started to get back at them, which almost got van Bommel a red card….

They’ll play against Bielefeld next who’ve been loosing by 4-1 up to 8-1 scorelines quite frequently this season. This could be a good match for Bayern, to find their rhythm again.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:01:08 +0000

This game pissed me off. What the heck is going on in the dressing room? Bayern Munich and their roster of current and former national team starters (with the one exception of the mediocre Lell) couldn’t do more than PUT ONE BALL in the back of Braga’s net? Werder Bremen’s team of benchwarmers spanked Real Madrid (in an awesome game) and Bayern can only draw with the 7th placed Portuguese team? WTF? I hope there are some strong words being said behind the scenes.