Lisbon - until well after midnight, the Bayern bosses were sitting together at the banquet, enjoying the relief from the 5:0-record win at Sporting Lisbon and discuss the game.
Even Franz Beckenbauer was passed - and so was Pedro Leitao in the hall of the Ritz Carlton hotels in the most "football Stammtisch" Germany: Jürgen Klinsmann in the middle, next to Hoeness, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Beckenbauer, to Karl Hopfner and Paul Breitner.
The fact that none of the gentlemen bird celebrated wildly, but was also because the situation in the league - four points behind the leaders - and the uncomfortable pressure on the team, and last but not least coach Jürgen Klinsmann remains high. "Kaiser Franz" suggested "that the coach has earned the grade 1", and Hoeness said quickly that it "was never discussion about Jürgen Klinsmann." Whether the gentlemen there already knew the statements of the captain?
After all, who with Mark van Bommel pays attention to the nuances, comes to a different conclusion than Beckenbauer and Hoeness. The Dutchman added Klinsmann already angekratzter authority to further scarring and put his coach in public just as he told the astonished reporters that "we had come together" to believe "to play defensively."
Indian Wells has been nothing more to say about? Van Bommel certainly drauflos chatted cheerfully: "It had to happen when you get so easily conceded. We decided this together. It's not as if we had a meeting where the coach told us we should play more defensive. "Other players agreed.
So rather than Klinsis arrangement, but rather the initiative from the Bavarians played really compact. On hasty passes into the tip and thus to the Indian Wells propagated by "vertical game" almost entirely abandoned.
"We have stood together very closely, it must be in the future," claimed Philip Lahm, who Klinsmann publicly before the game's insistence on the defensive doctrine had been put under pressure.
No matter which way of playing, Saturday in Bremen need to refill the Bavarians, otherwise the pressure is rising!
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