In 12 years, the four major are empty again, and Bayern scares away all the candidates?

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2024-05-09 13:32Posted on the official account of Shanghai The Paper

Bayern have all four of them this season.

In the final knockout game before the night of Wembley's showdown, the 'European Derby' once again became a classic in a twisting and turning fashion. But as always, it was Real Madrid who was smiling; It's Bayern that's crying.

By the 87th minute, the game had gone almost exactly as Tuchel had intended, with a sneak strike on the counter-attack and a multi-player defence that the German came close to doing what Chelsea had done at the Bernabeu three years earlier. However, the gears of fate did not turn back to their original positions, and similar tactics no longer worked for the 14-time European champion.

With the loss of the Champions League front, Bayern has once again encountered an embarrassing four emptiness since the 2011-2012 season. There is no point in blaming Kane for his "championship insulated physique", the reality is that Bayern, which has a delicate atmosphere, has not found a manager who dares to take on the responsibility for more than 2 months.

Davies' opener didn't give Bayern victory.

Sticking to the cut? There is no second time of luck

In the last round of knockouts, Bayern withstood Arsenal's continuous artillery fire with an extreme defensive formation of 6 defenders, and advanced thrillingly without being favored. And when Alphonso Davies miraculously came off the bench to steal home, it gave Tuchel the courage to repeat his old tricks. You know, Tuchel hasn't lost at the Bernabeu before.

The course of the game may have supported Tuchel's conservatism, with Laimer, De Ligt and Manuel Neuer all putting in world-class performances in their respective positions for the vast majority of the game, with Real suffering one of the most efficient attempts of the season, and Bayern's 87-minute clean sheet was a strategic victory given that Kimmich's side was almost completely penetrated by Vinicius.

However, at the tactical level, Tuchel, who has always been overcorrected, was too conservative this time: the departure of Leroy Sane and Musiala can also be attributed to injuries and lack of fitness. But replacing Kane is tantamount to directly announcing that he will not attack again. As long as Bayern No. 9 is present, Real Madrid will not dare to completely press it, who will send the assist to the lore ball? Rudiger, who has been eyeing Kane before!

What's even more short-paced is that knowing that there is a Champions League second leg to play, Bayern No. 9 also played the whole game in the last round of the Bundesliga against Stuttgart. But if you can take a little rest, why is the oil running out now?

What's even more infuriating is that Kim Min-jae, who became the background board for losing the ball twice in the last round, was caught up at the most crucial moment of the game. It is unknown whether the South Korean has come out of the shadow of the previous leg, but Real Madrid's two goals came after his debut.

Neuer's release led to a goal conceded and turned the tide of battle.

But compared with the South Korean central defender who was palpitating, the first goal conceded by Neuer's release was obviously more embarrassing. In the South Korea-Japan World Cup final 22 years ago, it was Kahn who accidentally got off his hand when saving a shot that was not very threatening, and was scored by Ronaldo, and the German team lost the Gold Cup; At the decisive moment of the Bernabeu, Kahn sat in the audience and witnessed the mistakes of the younger generation.

As for the lore ball, it proves that there is no necessary connection between stacking the number of people and not conceding the goal. Mazraoui took a big step forward to set up an offside position when Nacho split the ball to Rudiger, ensuring Joselu was in an offside position, while Rudiger dropped back in a small jump to ensure he was not offside. Joselu's running route also moved sideways along the small penalty area, and Bayern, who seemed to be wronged, actually lost to the opponent's precise movement in centimeters.

From a back six, to a back five, one promotion, one out. Could it be that Tuchel is not conservative enough?

The answer is the opposite, in the face of Real Madrid, who have the most experience in the Champions League and are the best at seizing opportunities that are not absolute, they can't hold on, whether it is the steel defense of Atletico Madrid and Juventus in the Champions League three times in a row, or Manchester City's possession for time, they have not been spared. Today's Bayern, which is leaking on all sides, is no exception.

Helpless Kane.

The summer window that can spend the most money burns a lonely

After narrowly missing out on the Bundesliga title last season, Bayern Munich gave Thomas Tuchel unprecedented support in last summer's transfer window. The 155 million euros spent on reinforcements is the highest in Bayern's previous summer window.

Different from the "diversification" in previous years, this time Bayern's thinking is "as long as it is right, no matter how expensive it is, buy it". So they fulfilled all of Levy's demanding conditions, making Kane the first Mr. 100 million yuan introduced in the Bundesliga, and by the way, allowing Kim Min-jae to set a new transfer value record for Asian players. And Guerreiro and Laimer, who are free of visas, also suppressed rivals Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig.

The lineup is so luxurious, Bayern, which should have seen all the mountains, did not play the dominance that everyone expected.

If the defeat of the German Super Cup is still caused by Kane's arrival in the team and the lack of run-in of the whole team, then in the next six months, Bayern, who has humiliated their opponents in the Bundesliga many times, seems to have begun to dominate.

Mr. Kane is once again the champion insulator.

But what all walks of life did not expect was that Bayern was eliminated by the third-division team Saarbrücken in the German Cup, and while a front collapsed prematurely, it also made the whole team fall into continuous self-doubt, and the intensification of criticism from all walks of life also made Bayern confused.

However, what they encountered was the strongest title challenger since the founding of the Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen, who has been undefeated so far in the season, is a strong contender for the title in any league, and the Bundesliga has only 34 rounds of fixtures, which further compresses Bayern's room for error, and in the long tug-of-war, it is Bayern who is in turmoil, losing points in a row, and losing by 3 goals in the duel between the two sides, and the 11 consecutive championships come to an end.

In desperation, Bayern had to shift their energy to the foreign war track, although they relied on the "blood suppression" to pass the Arsenal level, but in the face of 10 meetings without winning the bitter Real Madrid, they are still powerless, although there is no lack of highlights in the process of Bayern, but for the promotion, it is far from enough.

At this point, Bayern's four major are empty. The last time the Bundesliga giants had a season with nothing, it was in 2011-2012. But that year, Bayern won the runner-up in the Bundesliga, the Champions League, and the German Cup, and the record was far better than now. And just a year later, they turned all three runners-up into champions.

Now this Bayern, can you?

Coaching Bayern? How many people stay away

What is more heart-wrenching than the empty four may be the vacant Bayern coach, which has become the hottest potato in European football. Since Bayern officially announced Tuchel's departure at the end of the season, they have become more accustomed to the daily routine of every candidate clearly saying no, and even the politeness of "ten refusals" has been waived.

Long before the Bundesliga championship was revealed, Bayern targeted Xavi Alonso, who was at the height of Bayer Leverkusen's championship, which was the same as the 2012-2013 Champions League final, when Bayern suddenly announced the signing of Dortmund's core Götze.

However, this time, the big bucket of the "excavator" shoveled a steel plate. Alonso, who does not discriminate equally, neither favors Bayern nor Liverpool, and decisively announced that he would stay on the eve of the championship.

Thomas Tuchel left at the end of the season, but there is still a suspense over who will take over the Bayern Munich manager.

Subsequently, Bayern started the idea of the old man again, but Nagelsmann, who was dismissed by lightning that year, obviously has no old feelings to remember. In April, the German Football Association renewed Nagelsmann's contract with Nagelsmann until 2026 in advance when the European Championship record was uncertain, which is obviously also "fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-Bayern".

The popular coach can't dig in, and the outdated old coach is also deflated - before the Champions League semi-finals, Rangnick seems to have been sure to coach Bayern next season, although all signs show that the 66-year-old "Red Bull Godfather" is particularly interested in Bayern, but under the tough attitude of the Austrian Football Association, the thunderous and rainy coach has ended up in vain.

As for the rumored Emery and De Zerbi, the two are more like smoke bombs orchestrated by the media. The former is about to lead Aston Villa to a historic Champions League run, and the latter is also happy to cultivate in Brighton, and the Premier League manager's authority is broader and more autonomous.

At the end of the game, Bayern's goal was blown and sparked controversy.

After going around in circles, Bayern's most realistic possibility is to reunite with former champion coach Flick. The latter was once in the field of vision of Barcelona's coach, but Xavi can only continue to stay after the contract renewal, in terms of familiarity with Bayern, no one in the market can be the right of the coach, and Salihamidzic, who had the most rigid relationship with him back then, has long since left, and the "battle between the government and the court" has run out of soil.

But even if Flick returns, will this frustrated man who was full of slots during his time in charge of the German team definitely "match the version" with the current Bayern? And although Salihamidzic is gone, the big-mouthed Hoeness is still there, and it is his previous series of arrogant and rude statements about Bayern's coach selection that made the coach selection a farce.

What's even more heartbreaking is that Ancelotti, who eliminated Bayern, also stayed in Bayern's coach back then, but there was no dignity at all after class. Regarding the dilemma of Bayern's new coach who is now having a difficult birth, the people who have come over seem to have the most right to speak:

"If you don't have Bayern's support, it's better to separate so that there are no more problems. It's like it happened when I was at Bayern. ”

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