Champions League's final, season
2012-13, was the perfect summary to the best soccer that we saw in
this season. Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund arrived to Wembley
with impressive records. The team from Munich had gotten the first
place in the Germany soccer tournament and played the final of the
last Champions League season against Chelsea, loosing in a weird game.
Whilst, Borussia Dortmund had won the season 2010-11 and 2011-12 in Germany local tournament, being second in this current season behind
from Bayern Munich.
Borussia dominated the game exactly 27
minutes. In this period, it generated at least three opportunities to
score. The control on the game was total, in the three zones of the
field: defense, midfielder, and attack. Gundokan, with its great sense
of the game, was the key player in that moment of the game. He
distributed balls and managed the quick transitions to attack on
Bayern' flanks. Along with Blaszczykowski and Grosskreutz, Gundokan
dominated completely the game. Without doubts the Germany midfielder
is one of the closer player to Xavi Hernandez, a exceptional player.
From the minute 28, Bayern Munich
pressured on the game. Robben and Ribery extended and deepened the
field, as well as Muller was moving more among the two Borussia'
center defenders. As a result Mandzukic had more spaces to combine
in the front of Borussia's eighteen zone. In this phase of the game emerged one
of the qualities of Bayer Munich: its maturity and tactical work. In
just five minutes, the Bavarian team generated three corners and won
the same amount of corners, creating good opportunities to score. The
corners went to the penalty point, which is impressive if we
look in the size of players trying to win the ball inside the
eighteen zone. Bayern Munich did the same tactical work against
Barcelona although preferred to put the balls on the second pilot of
the box. In that game, Alexis Sanchez and Alves were the main victims
of this tactical work.
In the second half, Bayern Munich
dominated the game and given this it won the match. In the first
minutes of this period, Borussia tried to do the same that had showed
in the first half. However JH sent Javi Martinez to pressure to
Gundokan. At the same time put more pressure over Borussia' external
midfielders which isolated Lewandowsky. Finally,
JH emphasized the long balls over the Borussia's central defenders.
After these tactical tasks, Robben and Ribery started to win their
face to face against Schmelzer and Piszczek, and the long balls to Muller
and Mandzukic disorganized to Hummels and Subotic. Both of them had
had the same problems in Madrid playing against Real Madrid,
specially Hummels, an irregular central defender.
However, in this final, the small details were the
most important factor to win. In this dimension of the game Bayern Munich won in all sense. In a game where the forces were tied, the
small details emerged, almost invisible to the eyes of
fans, and defined the game. The second goal is the best example of
this dimension. The play starts in a foul. Between Ribery and
Boateng, who serves the call, there is almost 60 mts. The service of Boateng
goes to the center of the detail: the irregularity of Hummels and
Sabotic. Ribery runs diagonally, being followed by Piszczek, but
the French player wins the ball and keep playing to Robben, who
seeing the goalkeeper defines coldly, a play of manual. Where
were Muller y Mandzukic? jeee they were distracting to Hummels and Sabotic.
Here, we saw the great tactical work of JH to move Borussia
Dortmund' center defenders. As a conclusion, to get this fact, the
team needed strong training sessions as well as they needed to talk every day and to know its
rival. The goal was not only a moment to show talent but also, the most important, presented a mode of teaching the soccer, the main detail that JH has left
to us in this final. JH demonstrated why he is one of the best contemporary coaches, things as these
permit to win finals.
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