Dayot Upamecano is playing his third season at FC Bayern. The central defender immediately became a regular player for Munich and has already made 66 appearances for the German record champions in the Bundesliga. Nevertheless, Upamecano was repeatedly the subject of heated quality debates at FC Bayern.
The defender, who moved from RB Leipzig to Munich together with Julian Nagelsmann in the summer of 2021, is a good defender, but he always lacks the ultimate reliability for the highest level, according to a frequently expressed criticism of the 25-year-old. year olds.
The criticism of Upamecano became particularly loud when he made individual mistakes in the two knockout games in the last Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City (0:3 and 1:1) and was identified as an insecurity factor in FC Bayern’s game.
When recently asked about how he assessed his development at FC Bayern, the Munich regular took up these points himself: “When I look back on last season, I think that I had a very, very good season. It’s true that There were two games (against ManCity, editor’s note) in which I unfortunately didn’t do everything right.”
Upamecano continues to be a regular at FC Bayern
However, Upamecano immediately pointed out that his mistakes against the eventual Henkelpott winner in April of this year no longer bothered him and that he had emerged even stronger from them: “I have developed further and gained more experience. That is now a thing of the past, that is what interests me no more and I’m looking forward,” said the French international ahead of the runner-up world champion’s game against Gibraltar as part of the European Championship qualification next Saturday (from 8:45 p.m.).
So far this season, Upamecano has appeared in 13 competitive games for FC Bayern, including scoring the early 1-0 lead in the top game at Borussia Dortmund (final score 4-0).