The Bayern Rundown
By: Angela | March 23rd, 2008Bayern took a win yesterday in the Bundesliga. I was glad to see the form return to the midfield. Mark may have been voted the most hated player in the Bundesliga, but you know, when he’s on your team you can’t help but love the guy. He brings an order to the team and midfield that is definitely amiss when he’s gone. Rightfully, Bayern should’ve had at least 4 goals, but one was not allowed and another just didn’t go in. And it should’ve. There was no excuse for that. Adler is a superb goalie with a lot of talent. I am sure one of these days we will see him in the National team. There was a most awesome save by ol’ Oli Kahn where he did this weird flip thing and still managed to save the ball. It’s times like these that make me wonder why he’s hanging up his boots. The team could’ve done a better job. Leverkusen scored a goal thanks to Dmitriy Bulykin. Our two goals came from Luca Toni.
Bayern have denied the link to Polish keeper Boruc. They say there is no truth in the matter and have even responded by saying that Michael Rensing is their number one once Kahn goes.
“We have assured him that he is our number one. That assurance remains. Therefore everything else is just not an issue”
I agree that Rensing deserves a chance to go for the number one spot, but I don’t think it should be handed to him. We will also need a brilliant back up goalie and someone with a lot more game experience to help pull him through and to continue teaching him.
And that’s about all I have now, but here you get me, in my new jersey, sent from a friend of mine in Germany, hand signed by my favorite guy (even if everyone else hates him, I love him), the one and only, Mark van Bommel. 
What he wrote: Für Angie: mark van Bommel. And this is the first autograph that I have from him in which I can actually read Bommel… Color me happy.
And last but not least, Happy Easter everyone!
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One stat from this match stands out: Shots were 21 to 4 in favor of Bayern. I think that gives a better idea of what the match was like than the scoreline. I hope Lucio impressed Angela, as this was one of his finest performances of the season. Ribery was all over the field; it seems like this is said every match, but he consistently and impressively applied pressure to a beleaguered Leverkusen defense. I came out of this match all the more impressed with Rene Adler–Bayern could easily have scored 5 to 6 times, and if this is the best his back 4 can do in a top match, he’s even better than advertised. Be heartened though, fans of Zenit St. Petersburg-if you’ve found a way past Villarreal and Marseilles, you might be able to break down the Leverkusen D as well.
A sure sign of how dominant Bayern played was the double in-substitution of Podolski and Schweinsteiger. That is now our symbol for garbage time. Of course, Bayern immediately got arrogant and relaxed, although Leverkusen just looked like a top team for 30 seconds to earn their goal. But, ever since the Bolton match, Bayern has had a tendency to give away goals in spots like that, and make things more interesting than necessary. This is giving me a vision of a key away goal against, and somehow, they’ve got to check this tendency.
Save of the year from Kahn, ironically in the match where he was probably challenged the least this season. Tim Howard must be a Bayern fan, because he made a suspiciously similar save against West Ham about an hour later–surely just imitating his goalkeeping hero, right?
Next week, some unfinished business an hour north. There were a lot of crushing defeats last year, but perhaps none was worse than the newly re-hired Ottmar Hitzfeld looking even more clueless than Magath as Der Club pounded us 3-0. Could be the last Bayern-Derby for a while, so let’s make it count.
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I actually thought the goal against was Lucio’s fault as he got caught out of position.
Same as ever with Bayern (and most teams) when the team has posession and attacking players are making runs and making defenses adjust, they have success.
And yes Angela, van Bommel has to be one of the best holding midfielders there is. What a terrific player.
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[...] 2. Bayer can’t beat Bayern in Bavaria. Angela can be excused for spending little time on Bayern’s win over Leverkusen, and more on the newly acquired most hated merchandise of the Bundesliga. Leverkusen couldn’t win in Munich for 19 years and counting, so covering the same story each year is getting a bit old and boring. [...]
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There was an interview with MvB in the german newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” on saturday, the 21st. It’s in german, but very nice reading!
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I haven’t yet seen it anywhere Joshtree…
I’d be interested in seeing it though.Posted from
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Aaron.. keep talking like that about Lucio and van Bommel and you might just have a fan of your own.
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