The public announcement of the long acquaintance could be Louis van Gaal will not take it. Originally goalkeeper Thomas was announced force (22) as a dialogue partner for the round at the Säbener street, the responsible persons did not rescheduled at short notice and he prefers the coach sent in person to make the generational change in goal for FC Bayern basis."Kraft Thomas," said van Gaal on Wednesday, "is number one." The 36 year old Joerg Butt as only the reserve role to play, "but I am a performance coach," said van Gaal yet, so it could happen "that Butt is coming back." The hope of Munich on a more conciliatory kaprizieren season but one, whose profession and prepare the scoring is on Arjen Robben, the recovery winger on the right wing.
How far he was, so close to his competitive game comeback after six month break, Robben was asked a few days ago. Of course, not yet at 100 percent, he replies, but "a lot further than we thought." End of December until he was re-entered into the team training in Munich. As "our most important winter access," it does chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had described.
That says a lot about the expectations. Half a year had to fit Robben injury. A muscle tear in the left thigh, drag on the entire World Cup and first on his return to Munich diagnosed, had forced him to suspend. What followed was months of rehabilitation. The toughest of his career was behind him, says Robben.
And how much he had missed the team practice daily. But fear for his career, he did not possess. "During the whole time I was only in the mind, more come back again as before." Robben is aware of the hopes of the Munich-based environment, it is but a symbol of this past season when the club next league and cup victory to even the catchment Champions League final was.
"I run the pressure is not it," says Robben. And anyway, FC Bayern can in the current situation in the league leaders Dortmund has 14 points hurry away, is doing nothing more than start a series. "I hope to get started in Wolfsburg with three points." Robben Is in Wolfsburg on Saturday for the starting lineup? If it were up to the Dutchman would follow a clear "yes." It belongs to those who can barely restrain their ambitions.
After he had given last Saturday in a friendly against Al-Wakrah (4-0) a solid comeback, he talked about how "great it is to be back on the court." But he had only one half may play displeased him. "I did not get out. I would prefer to play 90 minutes. "And even better the next day he would have played the same again.
They are typical seal records. The next game "can not come fast enough," he added. Louis van Gaal has in any case be open for Saturday all options. "There is a possibility that he plays from the start, but usually not," he said on Wednesday. The latest during the second half he is einwechseln seals.
It's just a whim of the board that with Robben's return to league action the enemy is calculated Wolfsburg. 18 months ago he made his debut against VfL. Only two days earlier he had landed in Munich, once he had trained with the team. After the break he came on, in the end it was 3-0 for FC Bayern, Robben scored twice, each time after submission of Ribery.
Born in the duo "Robbery" or the "best wings pliers in the world" (Franz Beckenbauer) was. Because they mate with ease creativity that makes the rest of the league wooden acting often because they are able to dribble with a crazy speed with which many of their counterparts can not even walk straight.
And while they still have the gift of spectacular goals just in the crucial moments, create, just as last spring in the Champions League in Manchester. 1:3 Munich were in the quarter-final second leg back, a goal they needed to progress, as Ribery trotted to the corner to seal a brilliant arc lamp set the ball.
The shot volley, United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar stretched out in vain, and Bayern were the semi-finals. For nearly eight months whirled Ribery seals and no longer together in a competitive match on the Square, the most recent time at the Cup win in Munich in May, Werder Bremen (4-0).
In the practice sessions in training camp in Doha last week, but they acted as if they had never been away. "Robben is hot," declared Louis van Gaal, with Ribery, he was "very satisfied". And played off the field, the two balls to the verbal: "I 100 percent and Arjen at 100 percent, which is difficult for other teams," said Ribery.
"If Franck is in good shape, he is one of the best players in the world," said Robben. Ribery's modest first round - for weeks he was missing because of a Fußblessur - is one of the causes for the plight of the table fifth in the league. "The right Ribery will come again," he now promises.
It was the reliability of their offensive, the lived in Munich last season, especially in the Champions League. How many mistakes they made in the defense network also, they looked forward with goals from the back, also thanks to seals and Ribery. There is a statistic that says much about the dependence of the club of its creators: Did Ribery and seals together on the court, won the Bavaria 73 percent of their competitive matches.
If none or only one of the two here, they came only to a victory rate of 47 percent. play again with Ribery, "the fact I was very happy," said Robben, whose return, the protection against the new number one relieved, hope the Bavarians. Daily team training, the practice games, could also not get enough of it he.
The only one who stood on Wednesday even longer on the training ground on the road Säbener, Thomas was power. He still practiced with assistant coach Andries Jonker, in his presentation of the vehicle-position y van Gaal took over.
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