FC Bayern Munich – Findings on the win against Mainz: new signing finally arrived? It won’t be easy for Müller

FC Bayern’s triumphal march continues, which is why coach Julian Nagelsmann’s team greets them from the top of the table for the first time in two months. This was also due to a new addition that seems to have arrived. For a long-time top performer, on the other hand, it will be difficult to find your way back into the starting XI. Manuel Neuer also has time to recover from his injury. Three insights into the clear success against Mainz 05.

FC Bayern: Has this newcomer finally arrived?

“For me, he arrived a long time ago,” said Bayern Munich’s CEO after the 6-2 win against Mainz 05 about the match winner of the game and thus belied a little that his phase of weakness was not so long ago. We are talking about Sadio Mané (SPOX rating: 1.5).

As against FC Barcelona, ​​the newcomer from Liverpool scored a goal, according to Kahn, a “typical Sadio Mané goal”. He prepared two more. The fact that he was the most dangerous man in Bayern dress with seven shots underlined his energetic performance.

After his very good start to the season, the Senegalese had hung in there for a long time and thus became a symbol of Munich’s creative crisis in early autumn. After beating VfL Bochum 7-0 on August 21, Mané was without a goal for over a month before scoring a goal in the 4-0 win against Leverkusen. Even switching to his favorite position, the left wing, hadn’t helped.

Since October, his shape curve – with a few swerves – but steeply uphill. A total of five goals and three assists are recorded. He also scored his team’s second opener against Barça – the all-important goals that Robert Lewandowski, for example, scored like an assembly line. Nevertheless, there were also games like in the cup against Augsburg in which he again acted like a foreign body. Now it’s time to be more consistent.

FC Bayern: Sadio Mané not yet “happy with me”

“He works an incredible amount and he also has his sense of achievement through this constant work,” said Kahn. And this sense of achievement comes at just the right time.

On the one hand, because direct competition was or still is prevented in the meantime. On the other hand, because the arguments for the backing that Mané had received from all sides during his creative crisis were slowly running out.

This was also reflected in Mané himself after the game: “I’m not 100 percent happy with myself yet. I can do more.”

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