Hallo City fans.
I'm excited for our two games. They both should be excellent barometers of where our respective teams are at.
City look like a strong team that will contend with everyone in the EPL. After two games you have shown what you can do, I doubt any team is looking forward to facing you. However, I'll put off my full judgement of your team until you play some quality opponents. Not a slight, you just never know your true colors until you've played the best. Your individual players are superstars, and it seems they are beginning to find their mold. I don't doubt that your defense is stout, but like I said before, I'll reserve my judgement until they are put to the test by some serious firepower. Your offense will be quite scary for any defense. I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Now, let's talk about Bayern. Some of you are underestimating us. I can understand that after last year. It was a disaster. Our defense was our Achilles heal, that basically lost us the Bundesliga. However, our offense is among the best in Europe. But most of you know this already. Robben, Ribery, Müller, Gomez, and Schweinsteiger are a force that can take apart any defense. That hasn't changed.
What has changed is our defense. We bought arguably the best goalkeeper in the world in Manuel Neuer. You all saw his heroics vs. your rivals last year in the semi-finals. He will be standing between our posts for the next 10 years. We already had one of the best fullbacks in world in Phillip Lahm, and he has moved to the left to allow one of our new additions, Rafinha, to cover the right. Lahm and Ribery were one of the best duos in Europe during Ribery's first couple seasons. They will look to regain that form this season. Now, our weak point in our defense was our two CB's. Demichelles and Van Buyten were both slow and their individual mistakes lost us the Champions League final in 2010. As you are all aware, we bought Boateng to fill that gap and fit along side Badstuber. I know Boateng wasn't rated highly here, and it's too bad he never gained form. However, over the first few games he's been here, he has almost single handedly stabilized our defense. Him and Badstuber have been rocks at the back so far. Badstuber has been able to play to his strengths and play deeper, so that his lack of pace hasn't been exposed. I believe our defense is becoming better after each game, and we've had 5 out of 6 clean sheets. What I'm trying to say is, don't put too much stock into what happened last year. We have a completely different defense, a new coach, and Bayern is never down for two seasons.
Now, of course there is going to be cockiness on both sides. Bayern is cocky because we are the big boys of German football. We expect to be Deutschermeister every season and to make it far in the Champions League. This year will, of course, be special due to the fact that the final is at the Allianz Arena. I personally expect Bayern to win the group and to defeat City at the Allianz Arena, at Manchester will be a different story. There are going to be glory hunters for such a historically successful team like Bayern Munich. Once Manchester City start winning a few trophies here and there, don't you think people will be jumping on the bandwagon? Not everyone can be from Manchester or Munich.
Anyways, I hope we can both understand that there are troll fans on both sides of the aisle. I always love banter, especially between England and German (4-1). I'll try to answer any questions I can about Bayern when I visit the forum. I hate it when there is misinformation, like I've already seen a couple times. I'm sure more Bayern fans will be popping up once it gets closer to game day, just ignore the trolls, because we will by trying to ignore yours as well.