A long way to go

Skoorb

Skoorb

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Bayern Munich delivering a footballing lesson in the Champions League ...currently beating Barcelona 4-0 and showing just how far City have to travel yet to be truly competitive in Europe's top competition? (and perhaps what we were up against in our frst CL campaign?).

Mind you the second goal may haVe been offside and there was a blatent obstruction for the third so Bayern's reputation as being the Bundesliga rags seems assured....
 
I've been saying this a long time. :D

The Premier League is the world's most popular league but the leading teams of other leagues are currently better. I think Bayern, Dortmund, Barca, Real, Juventus, and PSG would all beat us and United right now. Teams like Atletico Madrid and the rejuvenated 2013 Milan would also trouble us.

It's not all down to players either... tactics are so, so important and the Premier League is low on great tacticians. Fergie has the league sussed out and has for years but notice how lately his tactics haven't been as effective against the cultured minds of Europe's elite lately? Football evolves every year. Let's not get started on us in Europe, that old argument has been done to death. :p

The way Heynckes has this Bayern team playing is out of this world, the tactics are very detailed and too much for the rookie Vilanova. I don't like Bayern because they remind me of the rags in so many ways but can't help admiring their absolute ruthless efficiency.
 
Not much evidence of tika-taka from Bayern tonight. Even though he scored a dodgy tap in, it's easy to see why Bayern will show Gomez the door.
 
The intensity with which Bayern played was eye watering - they did not let Barca alone, hussling, harrying, closing down instantly. The Barca players looked shell shocked and had no answer. Barca's play is usually able to counter pressure by moving the ball away but they could never shift it to anywhere where they weren't being pressed. Normally they numb their opponents into a kind of snake charmer's trance and then strike quickly. No chance last night.

Stu's 'ruthless efficiency' is a good description for Bayern but I'm with him in disliking them - they are the rags of the Bundesliga - and although it was a striking performance I'm not sure I would enjoy watching that kind of football week in week out. There was something unsettling about it.
 
Probably horses for courses with Bayern. They have played Barca at their own game and out-Barca'd them.

Other games, they know they will win so they probably put on the style.

Nothing unsettling about winning Skoorb - only when you're on the wrong end of it.
 
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