De Ligt at Bayern, the debut: goal, mistake, yellow in 6-2 against DC United

Not even the time of the presentation and Matthijs De Ligt has already scored with the new Bayern Munich shirt. The former Juventus player 48 hours after the announcement of his farewell to Juve was one of the protagonists of Bayern Munich’s 6-2 win over Wayne Rooney’s Dc United. The other new signing was also signed by Sadio Mane, who opened the scoring with a penalty after just 5 minutes of a match which he dominated.

The match

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For De Ligt it was a quick and profitable runway. Nagelsmann inserted him in the second half, after 1’35 ”from the entrance with a shot in the area in an action from the corner. His debut ended in the 73rd minute after a contrast that also earned him his first card with the Bayern shirt. Before him he had been the protagonist of the mistake that led to the goal of Wayne Rooney’s team: his wrong header hit the German goal post and was then put in the net by Simonsen. A more than satisfied Nagelsmann has already included him among the holders of the next match against Manchester City scheduled for the night between Saturday and Sunday. Marcel Sabitzer (12 ‘), Gnabry on the preparatory works of Mane (44’), Joshua Zirkzee (51 ‘) and Thomas Müller (90’ + 2 ‘) also scored for the Germans.

The advices

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And yesterday during the presentation De Ligt confided that he had asked former coach Louis van Gaal and former players Arjen Robben and Mark van Bommel for advice before signing with Bayern. “Everyone spoke well of Bayern. All the Dutch who were here loved the club, ”said De Ligt. “As a Dutchman you obviously look at Bayern Munich. You’re Dutch, but much more like a German, ”de Ligt said.