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Can you “Pep” this up?
Pep Guardiola has his work cut out for him, as he will be judged based on this season, as Jupp Heynckes and his all-conquering Bayern team won every competition they took part in, as stated earlier, becoming the first German club to do the treble. How can Pep make the team any better? They have already signed Mario Gotze, and a few more high-profile names are to sign up for Bayern. Will Pep evolve the Bayern team, or will he try to revolutionize their style of play and make it more Barca-like? It would be interesting to see what he does since this Bayern team have taken up the mantle of world-dominators from the Barcelona team that Pep managed.
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Stuttgart should build on this performance
Not many gave Stuttgart a chance in the final, and, for most of the game, it seemed like it was too tough a challenge for the team that finished in 12th position in the Bundesliga. However, their performance in the start of the game and at the end, when they scored 2 goals, really gave Munich a scare. Stuttgart deserved something from the game and should have taken it to extra time when Japanese international Shinji Okazaki headed a glorious chance wide in the 92nd minute. It would have been a fitting reply as well, coming back from 3-0 down to take the German and European Champions to extra time, but that’s how the cookie crumbles and now Stuttgart must look to the Europa League for solace as they start from the 3rd qualifying round of the tournament.
The Greatest Munich team ever?
This statement might raise a few eyebrows, but based on statistics alone, this has to be the best Bayern Munich team ever, even when compared to the team consisting of greats like Beckenbauer, Matthaus, Oliver Kahn, Mehmet Scholl and Effenberg, as none of those teams could match the success of this Bayern Munich squad. We must also note that Bayern did not have three starters for this game, as Badstuber and Toni Kroos were ruled out by injuries and the Brazilian pair of Dante and Luiz Gustavo were called up by their national squad for the friendly against England. A lot of their players are still young and would be replacements for the likes Robben, Ribery, Lahm etc, as most German clubs have a very good youth setup as well. From the way things are going, Bayern Munich could dominate Germany and Europe for long time to come.
