After his team was ambushed 5-0 by Bayern Munich on Saturday, Werder Bremen director of football Clemens Fritz could not believe what his eyes just saw.
“I felt like I was back in the days under Pep Guardiola. Bayern played with a lot of intensity and had incredible ball control. When Bayern are in top form, it’s difficult to get anything against them,” said Fritz during an appearance on SPORT1-Doppelpass (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “In the [recent] past, Bayern always gave you phases where you could gain possession of the ball and find your own structure. But yesterday there was such an intensity that even in the 88th minute, Kompany was still pushing his players from the sideline, and the players also wanted to keep going. This counter-pressing didn’t give us any time to breathe. They got the ball back straight away.”
That is a pretty good summary of how things played out. Can Bayern Munich do it again on Saturday vs. Bayer Leverkusen?
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