Welcome to the FC Bayern Campus Round Up, where the matches of Bayern Munich’s U-17s, U-19s and U-2s are recapped, highlights are provided and lineups are shown. The said highlights will be hyperlinked on top of the scorelines of each respective team. Without further ado, here is the Round Up:
Bayern lineup: Schmitt – Dell’Erba, Breitkreuz, Dettoni (46. Rüger), Brückner – Aseko, Denk – Irankunda, Demircan, Scott (46. Kusi-Asare) – Wagner (46. Unsöld).
Bayern goals: None
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. The U-23s started the season with an absolute bang, winning 6 of the first 7 matches and dealing with the loss of some of the team’s most prominent talent to the first team’s pre-season, but injuries (Bayern were missing 10 players today through injury or illness… Adam Aznou was also unavailable for some reason) and a loss of momentum have started to catch up with the team. After drawing two matches in a row by salvaging late draws, Bayern were unable to do the same here as they slumped to a loss against Hankofen-Hailing.
Nor was this a loss like the previous weeks in which the Bavarians dominated, only to gift opponents the chance to score time and time again through sloppy mistakes. This time, the hosts dominated but Bayern’s habit of making sloppy mistakes continued. It makes for a worrying trend, one that needs to be arrested as soon as possible.
This result puts Bayern sees Bayern slip further down the table into 5th, 6 points (with a game in hand) behind first and the only promotion spot. The team’s next match with be against Buchbach at home on Friday, September 27 at 12:00PM CST. Hopefully the home support will rally the team and break their three game winless run.
Bayern lineup: Klanac – Schuhbauer (46. Dalpiaz), Scholl, Puljić, Ofli (88. Schäfer) – Nasrawe (88. Eckl), Santos, Richter (63. Codjo-Evora) – Binder (76. Wilson), Chávez, Chemwor (76. Durakov).
Bayern goals: 0:1 Chávez (17.), 0:2 Ofli (25.), 1:3 Codjo-Evora (85.)
As part of the new youth league format the DFL officially started this year, each U-19 team is set to play 14 games in the first half of the season before being sorted into new leagues for the second half based on their league position. This was the 7th matchday and the win means that Bayern sit a comfortable 9 points ahead of 2nd place with a perfect record.
But they were made to work for the perfect record by a very well organized Augsburg side that were surprisingly flexible tactically, rotating between a back three and back four, demonstrating extreme competency in executing quick counterattacks and the ability to compress the space in between the lines when needed. It was of course helpful, then, that Bayern were able to pounce on two good opportunities and create an early lead, one the team would not let go. They were consistently challenged by an Augsburg side that reduced the arrears in the 34th minute and threatened to overwhelm the Bavarians on occasion, but the very high technical and tactical quality of the team ultimately prevented Augsburg from getting too close to a victory.
As mentioned previously, this result leaves Bayern with 21 points and 9 points clear of 2nd place. This quest to retain this perfect record sees Bayern visit Greuther Fürth on Saturday, September 28 at 5:00AM CST.
Bayern line up: Kösters – Wijks (59. Moumouni), Lambe, Kiala (72. Pavlić), Ajayi (66. Matosevic) – Karl (66. Anand), Schmid, Göttlicher (72. Hentcho Nseke) – Afanou (59. Egwuatu), Gashi, Mike.
Bayern goals: 1:0 Afanou (11.), 2:0 Karl (21.), 3:0 Lambe (41.), 4:0 Gashi (44.), 5:1 Gashi (50.), 6:1 Egwuatu (60.), 7:1 Gashi (69.), 8:1 Matosevic (82.), 9:1 Mike (90.).
The new league system really is not beating the allegations. After 6 games, Bayern have a perfect record and have scored 39 (!) goals in the league at an average of over 6 goals a game. This is a tale of a team far too good for the teams they are facing and, unfortunately, it will take 8 more games for the leagues to be reshuffled. This tale is reflected by the goals scored, as the team demonstrates a certain amount of quality to open up the opposition but is also met with some rather lackluster defending that fails to challenge the attack as much as it should.
Regardless, as mentioned above, Bayern have a perfect record of 6 wins from 6 games, leading 2nd placed Augsburg with 6 points, with a goal difference of 34 to 5 respectively. To close out the first half…of the first half of the season, the U-17s will host bottom of the table SpVgg Unterhaching on Sunday, September 29th at 4:00AM CST.
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