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An hour Kai Havertz (it has english subtitle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAJxnFdZjQ

Rummenigge and Hoeneß officially do not have the say anymore at Bayern. Today it is Oliver Kahn, Hainer (the ex-Adidas boss) and Brazzo Salihamidzic. When there is success there will not be a clash...

With Tedesco Leipzig plays on more ball possession, too. So it is not really safe that he will really function again. But - important with him is always his self confidence... Mark October 8th when they play Mainz. That was usually the game when his self confidence rose after a period when it was not. Has 13 goals and 7 assists in his last 8 matches against Mainz... (his German Southhampton...)

Werner never was the stable guy. Even last season he had a long period without goals and needed a match against Mainz (he had a good game in the last match before that there with a hattrick) to get his self confidence back and score a hattrick then, too. He is very good when he is on song - even clinical - but he will always have very unstable periods and so he can be of help with his runs - is not known to be the great big game scorer or scorer in Cup events. I do not know if age and experience really change that. Even Lewy has opponents and venues in which everything has to run fine for him or the ball really fall in front of his feet like with a penalty that he scores - and others where you can time goal festivals as he has very good memories that help his self confidence.

He actually only has 0.8 offsides during a match in the EPL whereas it was 1.6 times in the Bundesliga last season. On 90 minutes 0.9 to 1.4. I cannot tell how many goals were ruled out by var the seasons before - but he had even a lot more offsides in Germany than he had now. And the referees in the EPL fall easier for him drawing fouls than they do in Germany especially since his dive against Schalke that caused the "Werner is a son of a bitch"-shouts everywhere.

Doubt that as he will not be a starter. I actually doubt that he is much of a tournament player when thinking about his mentality and that until now he did not have big numbers in Cup events. Not if Havertz keeps him out. Getting Müller back into the national team what was a big story the recent two years here in Germany (and he by far has been Germany's best offensive player in the recent two years added by all of his secondary attributes he gives to his teams) means that he + 2 others will start - he was not brought back for the bench but for his skills commanding an offense and the movement, pressing and play and having a workrate like Kante. Gnabry is a tournament player and set with Löw because of performances in the last 2 years in the national team. So the last spot will either go to Havertz, Werner or Sane and right now Havertz (especially if you saw yesterday how well he matches to the two others) seems to be the best in form of them. Match Highlights in English on the official homepage of the German FA https://tv.dfb.de/video/highlights-germany-vs-latvia/30194/

I actually think that you got what you bought. Werner is not different than before. He always had spells of low confidence in which he did not score - and than a row of matches in which he scored real big. And he is no central forward - that did not really function in the German national team, too. He mainly was used in combination together with a hard working center forward. His main strength is his speed - not his touch etc. He is exactly showing what he can play - he only is in a bad spell scoring wise.

Does he meet them in restaurants to spend the evening shifting around pepper and salt to discuss tactics? From day one - when Tuchel was still at Mainz - the duels of this two coaches were tactical battles.

I have read a lot that Tuchel will prefer to play Havertz to him - I doubt that as what I have seen previously at Mainz and Dortmund he is not really into the no. 10 types but likes workers, too.

Bayern did not want to spend the money on them before that summer either. Werner does not fit the system - and Havertz would only be good on a position Müller is on - and was even last season far away from his performances. And now there is a Musiala with a high workrate who might grow into it in the next 3 years until Müller probably will leave who is able to shine in other positions, too. Some always just see "talent" as the main "ingredient" - put actually it is adaptiblity, work rate, personality and mentality that are probably as important for the rise of a player. Not just the German media loves to hype players that until now have not shown much but that talent. Havertz still has a lot to prove. Leverkusen made it easy for him to shine - he only needed his talent to walk into the squad and the others did lot of the work. A lot of talents have failed to make the next step from that. Let's see!

There is no nice two week break in Germany this year. The last matches were December 23rd and Bundesliga starts again January 2nd. So for the most teams the only holiday was the Xmas days and this weekend. 5 days. Today the most teams should be in team training again. About his position... In my eyes he is no real centre forward and at Leipzig he usually had a partner in front in person of Poulsen or last year Schick, too. Even for Germany it is usually Gnabry that plays centrally. His main strength is his speed and hanging around the offside line waiting on balls behind it.

The only one with extra muscles in the recent months is Goretzka. And it is not just a development of the Corona break but started far earlier. The photo of Davies, that is circulating, is already from his medical 2 years ago. Lewy is like this already since some years. And Thiago started to work extra on his fitness in 2016 having an additional personal trainer. That does not mean that they aren't fit - they worked very hard on their fitness level during the Corona break - but the overall fitness and endurance, too - not just bulking up. Goretzka bulked up as he always was a little light weight in midfield and to really be able to fight for a starting place and not to be always no. 4 he needed to get better defensively.

He is playing with Leverkusen right now against Glasgow Rangers.

Because of the Pavard injury Kimmich will probably play right fullback again. The Bayern team will probably play the team that started the friendly against Marseille last Friday with Coman starting instead of Perisic. Neuer Kimmich - Boateng - Alaba - Davies Thiago - Goretzka Gnabry - Müller - Coman Lewandowski Kimmich and Thiago will miss the QFs when the get the next yellow card. UEFA announced today that in difference to usually when that happens before the semi finals after this round the yellow card count is set to zero.

It is officially announced now that the match will be held without fans. For those who wanted to attend - tickets will be refunded.