Champions League 2023/24 - Matchday 3
## Galatasaray S.K. 1-3 FC Bayern München
Date: October 24th, 2023
Time: 18:30 CET
Venue: RAMS Park, Istanbul
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Current Champions League Table (prior to this weeks Matchday):
| Team | GP | Wins | Draws | Loses | GD | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. FC Bayern München | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
- Galatasaray S.K. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4
- FC København | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1
- Manchester United | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0
| FC Bayern München | Galatasaray S.K. | Player Status |
|---|---|---|
| Neuer | - | Injured |
| Goretzka | - | Injured |
| Gnabry | - | Injured |
| Guerreiro | - | Injured |
| Upamecano | - | Injured |
Ulreich - Mazraoui, Kim, de Ligt, Davies - Kimmich, Laimar - Sané, Musiala, Coman - Kane
Peretz - Choupo-Moting, Sarr, Müller, Tel, Krätzig, Pavlović
Muslera - Boey, Sanchez, Bardakcı, Karataş - Ayhan, Torrreira - Tete, Aktürkoğlu, Zaha - Icardi
Güvenç - Angeliño, Demirbay, Mertens, Ziyech, Nelsson, Oliveira, Yılmaz, Ndombélé, Bakambu
How many more games as evidence before the board actually sees that the midfield balance stinks and the team needs a 6
There are clearly other, far bigger problems than not having a holding six.
Like what if I may ask
The lack of movement in attack. We have four players in attack pretty much standing around in a line of four. It’s completely static. No coming short, no runs and most of all: no quick positional changes. It’s all completely dependent on our wingers using pace or winning a 1v1.
In most matches there is also a gaping hole in the attacking midfield where usually a number 10 would play. Musilia for some reason plays higher up as a secondary striker instead.
There is zero creativity in build up and creating chances and this is not something a holding 6 will fix either.
First half reminded me of playing vs city last season. If I speak I am in big trouble
When they include the best fucking 9 in the world, the attack improves as fuck. There are tons of work to do but hey, we won.
Müller not subbed for his ucl wins count sucks…
Dunno but seems like tuchel doesn’t rate him, I feel he would have easily found a few good deep passes today
He could’ve started in my opinion. They work real good with Musiala.
Ehh, save him for the league until KO rounds really. Group stage is in the bag and Müller can’t be playing 40+ games a season anymore
As much as Gala pressed and as well as they played, they really didn’t have a sniff in the second half.
Love the way Laimer and Ulrich played. The two save’s Ulrich had early were amazing.
The team showed heart and worked their tail off. Deserved terrorist style win!
Even though the defense looked shaky as a whole, I thought De Ligt played very well. I feel much more confident when he is out there to command the defense.
Musiala got a lot of criticism. Right fully so. I get it.
But i honestly think his “poor decision-making” today was due to him thinking he has to win this game for us on his own. Which is understandable if you look at the performance and how we started this game. And you know, he did win us the game with an assist and a goal.
Personally I am OK with this performance given that it was away and the stadium was so annoying. The Garatasaray side was quite impressive offensively the first half pressing high. They got lucky and unlucky moments. But their defense was just atrocious and became too vulnerably when players used up their energy.
But Tuchel: what is wrong with you and Muller?
Müller has to start the next game (I hope)
I don’t understand the hate towards the fans. Why would you want a silent stadium, fans are supposed to support their team lol.
Are there no interviews after the Game on Dazn?
Harry Kane 9 points outta the first the UCL games. Without further iverservstion, I guess he never achieved that before. Heck, maybe he barely had that as a total before. Especially not during the group stage facing us. :-D
I supported Tuchel so far, but I have to admit I am fed up.
There is no way you watched the game, up to the 78th minute, and thought we would be worse off if we used our bench. The goals we scored were individual talent, not from chaining of passes. The passing was horrendous. For the first 70 or so minutes we camped in our own half against Galatasaray. The only reason we turned it around was because Galatasaray has older players that ran out of gas.
The way Tuchel treats his bench is beyond wasteful. He enjoys his super subs and once he finds them he sticks with them.
God our passing is so bad. There are flashes of individual brilliance, but long stretches of just outright garbage passing. Most baffling is the lack of improvement in our movement and passing. A couple of months to practice and play together and no improvement.
im telling you Tuchel is smoking expired bath salts
DeLigt and Kim played amazing, would’ve got destroyed if not for them and Ulle.
At the same time I think we did miss Upa’s passing ability this game seeing as we were completely unable to beat the galatasaray press. Kimmich looked horrible party because he was receiving a lot of tough passes with opposition on his back, presumably because we were trying to rely on him to progress the ball when normally we rely on Upa.
If Tuchels plan was to weather the storm and win when they were tired, then fine it worked. But it’s a crime to not sub on Muller, especially when Musiala, Kimmich and Laimer are having stinkers.
Fortunate to come away with 3 points, but that ought to be the toughest game in the group stage for us, so cautiously optimistic in getting far in the UCL this year.
I was saying this earlier and keeping Musiala on was absolutely the correct call. He beat the press which lead to the first goal. He then scored and assisted to finish off the game.
Our guys were being put under a lot of pressure it only took Gala players getting half a step slower for us to break out and go forward.
Also helps that Laimer finally found his footing in the second half he looked like a deer infront of headlights in the first half.
Good point about Musialas performance, in the end you’re right he did have a big part in all 3 goals. Maybe just my frustration at Muller not getting minutes.
And yeah DAZN showed a distance covered graphic and it really showed how much better our conditioning is than the Gala players. Musiala, Kimmich, Laimer all more distance covered than all but one Gala player, and yet our guys looked much more up for it at the end of the match.
I really like Laimer’s effort level and willingness to do what needs to be done, at RB or CM. Just was a half step behind early in the game and suffered a few unlucky bounces. To be fair this was a nightmare game for a Center mid the way Galatasaray was pressing.
You‘re optimistic about a deep CL run after we just barely managed to win against Galatasaray??? They had an xG of 3.07 or something, if you give away these kind of chances to better and more clinical teams like Man City they will demolish us. This was the worst CL performance I‘ve seen in a long time, how is this grounds for optimism?