After the 5-0 win against Freiburg, Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic immediately made a request. Leon Goretzka still sees room for improvement.
“That was a very important match for us,” says Bayern’s Leon Goretzka.
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Statistics, which would have sounded really bad at worst, read a little more relaxed when viewed positively. After Freiburg’s 5-0 win on Sunday night, Bayern have taken seven points in their last three games instead of winning just one of their last seven league games, as they would in the event of a defeat.
But as it stands, Munich is the match day winner alongside Union Berlin. “That was a very important match for us,” says Leon Goretzka. “We were already aware that we had bet a little credit” and “that we no longer have the ability to lose points”. After all, Union Berlin apparently doesn’t want to stop winning at the top either. “That is why we have set ourselves a lot of goals today and implemented them very well,” said Goretzka.
“This is the reference point”
Sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic also witnessed a “super match”, praising its “intensity”, “emotions” and “concentration”. And he immediately made a clear request: “This is exactly the benchmark. It was really good, but now we have to be measured by that.”
“Today we didn’t do everything perfectly”
After a good quarter of an hour, the previous second in the standings of Freiburg seemed to have suffered a break with the 0: 1, as a result the courage and aggression have faded. Bayern took advantage of it with enthusiasm and goals. So a perfect game? “He’s getting better and better,” says Goretzka. “Today we didn’t do everything perfectly, I think it’s very difficult to do in a football match.”
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However, the renewed midfielder, who was not involved in the goal this time, stressed that “we have implemented the coach’s instructions very well”. In other words: “We’ve been very disciplined in our positions and defensively defended ourselves in a very emotional way. Those were problems that we haven’t done so well in the last few weeks. Today was significantly better.”
It must also be significantly better on Wednesday in Augsburg, at least significantly better than about a month ago when Bayern missed a string of big chances and lost 1-0. Now awaiting the second round cup match at FCA home, in the past two years the record cup winners had failed in the second round in Kiel and Mönchengladbach.
