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Published on: Thursday, February 15, 2024 – 5:45 PM | Last updated: Thursday, February 15, 2024 – 5:45 p.m
Alphonso Davies, Bayern Munich’s left back, returned to individual training after a knee injury, while former captain Lothar Matthaus expressed his regret at the absence of unity from the team after suffering its second loss in a row.
Bayern announced that Davies conducted running training with Bouna Sarr, who is returning from a torn cruciate ligament in the knee.
Davies was injured in Bayern’s match against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German League (Bundesliga), 12 days ago, while the date of his return to the stadiums was not clear. Bayern will be a guest at Bochum next Sunday, where it needs to recover from its harsh 0-3 loss to host Bayer Leverkusen (leader), in the last stage of the Bundesliga, which was followed by a 0-1 loss to its Italian host Lazio yesterday, Wednesday, in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League. Europe.
Bayern, which is in second place in the competition standings, is 5 points behind Leverkusen, while its technical director, Thomas Tuchel, wants to rise quickly from the setback that the team has recently experienced, to maintain its chances of competing for the German League and Champions League titles.
Matthews said that “Bayern was not who we know” during the Lazio match, stressing that “everyone should now find out the reasons behind that.”
Matthews added, in his analysis of the performance of Bayern’s players to the Sky television network, “Bayern was not convincing. The team lacks intuitive things, lightness in movement, and coherence of its lines. There is no feeling of teamwork.”
The former German football star confirmed, “The players are unstable. The only question is: Why? What is worrying them? Thomas Tuchel (the team coach) must support the players, form a team, and restore cohesion on and off the field.”
“The ease, the joy of playing, the imposition of control – everything that distinguished Bayern in the past can no longer be seen now,” Matthaus stressed.
He continued, “The entire team is not working as it should, and has not been doing so for a long time. We have a lot of problems in defense and attack.”
“The coach and his team now have a very difficult task to do psychologically. They actually have enough experience to do it,” Matthews explained.
Matthews concluded his statements by saying, “Tuchel must regain the confidence of the players, and this is not an easy matter. Due to the many statements in recent months, this has become a difficult task.”
