Coman scores 1st goal of the tournament
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In the midday heat of Cincinnati, the highly paid football professionals of FC Bayern celebrated the expected peat festival against the hopelessly overwhelmed hobby kickers from Auckland City. The seriously played 10: 0 (6-0) with the shiny Jamal Musiala, shiny with three joker goals, revealed at least one five-class difference between the two teams.
It was nothing more than a relaxed warm-up for the German record champion who wants to play for the title at the first World Cup in the new XXL format with 32 teams. It is already clear that in addition to Bavaria, only the Boca Juniors from Argentina and Portugal’s record champions Benfica Lisbon are eligible for the first two places in Group C.
The Munich professionals in the small TQL stage came most of the sweating before 21,152 fans at the many goal celebrations. Already at the break it was half a dozen after the goals of Kingsley Coman (6th/21st minute), who scored the first goal of the tournament, Sacha Boey (18th), Michael Olise (20./45.+3) and the Bavaria legend Thomas Müller (44.) celebrated by the audience.
After the break, the Munich team took their foot from the accelerator pedal a little. Vincent Kompany changed several times. Musiala also came. And the magician immediately hit his comeback after a muscle injury with a Schlenzer (68th), from the penalty point (73.) and then in the penalty area for hat trick (84th). Müller then made it double -digit (89th).
At the back, Musiala also prevented the possible honorary gate Aucklands when he successfully blocked David Yoo (69.). Leroy Sané stayed on the bench after his perfectly made switch to Galatasaray Istanbul. For this, newcomer Jonathan Tah celebrated his debut in central defense and top talent Lennart Karl came to his professional debut.
After the final whistle, the Bayern-Tross was in a hurry. The charter plane back to the basic camp in Disneyland in Orlando was waiting at Cincinnati Airport. The next preliminary round is the Boca Juniors on Friday evening (local time) in Miami. Then it will no longer be just about the amount of the result, like against the record winner of the Champions League in Oceania.
Bayern coach Kompany was pleased with a black cap as sun protection on the edge of the field that his players immediately turned seriously. In the press conference the evening before, he had reminded the meager 1-0 of Harry Kanes English against football dwarf in the World Cup qualification.
“We play against a team that will try to stand very compact and use a moment,” said Kompany. One thing was aware: “We won’t get much praise if we win. But we want to take the game very serious and do our job.”
This was done by Müller and Co. against the brave amateur footballers of the strong Rubgy-Nation New Zealand. Above all, the foreign strikers Coman and Olise hit their hooks on the lawn to their heart’s content and delighted the audience. Tah, who was allowed to give the defense chief, which was not required, earned the first assist in the 1-0 from Coman. The Frenchman was the first goal scorer of the tournament two days after his 29th birthday.
The almost unimaginated captain Manuel Neuer was able to treat himself to sunbathing in his goal for over 90 minutes. After the break, not only young talent Karl (17) was used. After an hour, Kompany also switched Musiala and Dayot Upamecano, who are supposed to take important roles after longer injuries in the course of the tournament.
Because Kompany divided the tournament into two phases. “You have to win the first tournament first, that’s the group. And then the second tournament starts.” In the KO phase it goes against the big ones like Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid or maybe Borussia Dortmund.