[MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Sunday 29 July 2018.]
Bayern had it for the first 40 seconds and I watched David Alaba.
Not the ball. Alaba, who is a left back, and who came inside to stand next to Javi Martínez the second Sven Ulreich rolled it out, and stayed there.
So they are a back 4 when we have got it and a back 3 when they have got it, and that is 2 shapes in 1 team, and it takes 6 weeks to teach and Niko Kovač has had 6 weeks and has clearly spent all of them on it.
Franck Ribéry did not come towards the ball once in the first 4 minutes. Neither did Arjen Robben. They stood on their touchlines like 2 men waiting for a bus and made our full backs stand still with them.
"They are pressing," I said.
"In July."
"In July, Bray, in 29 degrees, in a competition that gives you a point for losing a shootout."
Tk. Tk-tk.
