Bayern Munich: How Vincent Kompany has turned German club into formidable force

Manchester Metropolis nice Kompany performed three seasons beneath Pep Guardiola in direction of the tip of his profession. And one can actually see a whole lot of Guardiola in the way in which the previous centre-back and his assistants method ball possession and the way they arrange attacking performs. Positional play and the rotation throughout the formation are key to letting the ball flow into nearly effortlessly.

Final season, Kompany already tried to introduce positional patterns, in that his gamers have been requested to occupy sure zones or lanes, however this 12 months, gamers rotate from zone to zone extra steadily, which makes it tougher for defences to cowl with out leaving any gaps in direction of and into the penalty space.

Now, this isn’t fully unparalleled on the subject of Bayern’s offensive method. Guardiola himself applied comparable patterns after his arrival in 2013, however the Catalan did not make them the Champions League remaining regardless of making actual progress. Throughout Guardiola’s three-year spell he introduced in midfielder Joshua Kimmich, one of the vital promising German gamers on the time.

Kimmich continues to be with Bayern and might need a proof as to why the group look much more fearsome than again then.

“Once I joined 10 years in the past, we have been geared up with unbelievable particular person high quality. We had 23, 24, 25 world-class gamers,” he mentioned on Saturday.

“However once I now see how we as a group operate and are pleased collectively and for each other, once I see how we carry these ideas to the sector, how one runs for the opposite, then that is very particular. That has not been the case so typically. It was totally different 10 years in the past. Then, we had extra egoism throughout the group.”