Welcome to the FC Bayern Campus Round Up, where the matches of Bayern Munich’s U-23 and U-19 squads are recapped, line ups are provided and the highlights to the matches are hyperlinked on top of their respective score line. Unfortunately, Bayern did not release a live stream of a highlights video of the U-19s match. This is the best we got. Meanwhile, the U-17s’ season will not start until the weekend of August 8th. Remember, to watch highlights one needs to have established an account on the website
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Information on the matches of the U-23 and U-19 teams is provided by the official FC Bayern website here and here, respectively. Additional information on U-16 and U-14 matches is here. If you wish to learn more about the format of the U-17 and U-19’s youth leagues and what is at stake, you can find more info here. Unfortunately, Bayern did not provide a live stream for the U-19s match Without further ado, here is the round up:
SV Wacker Burghausen 2-0 FC Bayern II (U-23s), Matchday 2
Bayern lineup (with subs): Bärtl – Ajayi, Pavlic, Mijatovic, El-Chaar – Sadat (46. Lambe) , Schmitz (80. Srb), Matosevic (80. Codjo-Evora) – Wilson (68. Olychenko), Heinz, Gashi (46. Scott).
Goals: 1:0 Bachschmid (22.), 2:0 Bachschmid (38.).
Unused subs: Klanac, Ruland – Schäfer, Moumouni.
Injured players: Louis Richter, Leonard Prescott, Tarek Buchmann, David Heindl, Chivano Wijks
Position: 16., 0 points
Dante’s men fell to yet another defeat in their first away trip of the season to SV Wacker Burghausen. Dante’s record as Bayern U-23s manager now stands at 4 friendlies and 2 league games played, 0 won, 0 drawn, 6 lost.
The Bavarians traveled to Burghausen following a frustrating late defeat to promoted side SC Eltersdorf. In that match, they dominated possession, created very little and then conceded a late sucker punch. The opening phase of this match was much better, as Bayern showed some good patterns of play with the ball and held their own in the first 20 minutes of the contest. The defense continued to be the team’s Achilles heel, however, with Wacker Burghausen finding it far too easy to create shooting opportunities out of non-threatening situations due to poor communication and marking in the defense.
The opening goal of the game was not due to any such mistakes, however. An opposition player received the ball at the edge of the box and captain Benno Schmitz stepped up to block the ball. The rebound fell quickly to another opposition player, who instinctually stabbed at the ball and managed to lob the ball towards goal. This turned out to unintentionally be a perfect pass behind Schmitz and towards the striker, who took the first time shot at the edge of the six yard box to give the hosts the lead. It was a very unlucky goal to concede.
What was not unlucky was the reaction of the team. It was clear to see how the confidence of this very young side was shaken by conceding the first goal. The team’s spells of possession became shorter, the ball was lost in silly ways and the defensive gaps grew. One such gap saw center back Roko Mijatović lunge in with a desperate tackle in the penalty box, only to get the man instead of the ball. The resulting penalty was fortunately saved by goalkeeper Jannis Bärtl and so the 0:2 was prevented.
Bärtl would go from hero to villain, unfortunately, when he raced on to a harmless ball over the top and misjudged the bounce of the ball, allowing a striker to get on to the ball and hit it into the empty net. So the scoreline would be 0:2 as Bayern trudged into the dressing room at halftime.
The team came out better in the first 15 minutes after the break, again demonstrating the ability to hold the ball well and create threatening patterns of play, getting close to a goal a few times. But when those opportunities did not end in a goal, familiar nerves showed again. The team devolved into fouling time and time again, making very poor passing decisions and let the hosts see the game out comfortably. 0:2 was the final scoreline.
Now, it is far from time to panic about the future of the U-23s. The leaders of the team in David Heindl, Anton Heinz and Benno Schmitz missed nearly the entire preseason, while Heindl is still hurt. A lot of players were still unavailable due to playing for Bayern’s senior team, leaving a group of mostly 17 and 18-year-olds to play today. Meanwhile, it is clear that Dante’s style of play is slowly starting to sink in and that this style of play holds a good deal of promise.
There are plenty of reasons to believe things will get better sooner than later. But it would be nice if the Bavarians could finally stop losing soon.
RSV Eintracht 1949 1-3 Bayern U-19s, Youth Cup Round 1
Bayern lineup (with subs): Heo – Nuraj (68. Babl), Gashi (46. Schreyer), Karandrikas (68. Maric) , Moumouni (46. Horvath) – Horoszczak (54. Imade), Snip – Av. Hentcho Nseke, Schaff, Afanou (46. Ar. Hentcho Nseke) – von Taube.
Goals: 1:0 Hamzi (47.), 1:1 Müller (89./ Eigentor), 1:2 Ar. Hentcho Nseke (90.+4), 1:3 von Taube (90.+6).
Bayern traveled to Stahndorf and RSV Eintracht in the hopes of finally, finally making it past the first round of the Youth Cup in three years. In the previous two seasons, the U-19s had suffered humiliating defeats against smaller opponents and were kicked out of the competition in the first round. The only goal was to avoid that in this game.
To do so, Bayern lined up with a somewhat depleted side. The senior team’s friendlies had drawn players from the U-23s and the U-19s. The U-23s in turn called up multiple U-19 players to compensate for holes in their squad, leaving the U-19s with said depleted side. New signing Jae-Won Heo and Konstantinos Karandrikas, signed just days before this match, both started the match in a demonstration of just how bare bones the squad was, while winger Skender Nuraj had to start at left-back.
Still, Bayern were heavy favorites against minnows Eintracht and were hoping to finally break their first round curse. Unfortunately, the script seemed to exactly match that of the past seasons. The Bavarians struggled to create chances, the hosts stood firm, Bayern lose their head and the game gets out of hand. U-19 head coach Leonard Haas, clearly very dissatisfied with the first half, had already made three half-time changes when RSV Eintracht duly did their part in making the game get out of hand and took the lead shortly after halftime in the 47th minute.
Bayern and Haas kept throwing things at the wall, desperately hoping they would stick. Center back Karandrikas left the field for attacking midfielder Matteo Marić and Nuraj came off for another winger. All 6 available substitutions were made by the 68th minute. Still Bayern struggled and still Eintracht held firm.
Finally, though, midfielder Simon Schaff took charge. He shot from long range and, thanks to a crucial deflection off of opposition player Müller, landed in the back of the net for the 1-1 in the 89th minute.
The goal gave the team energy. 18-year-old Aristide Hentcho Nseke (funnily enough, reduced to an impact substitute while his 16-year-old brother Aviel played the entire 90 minutes) then scored the all important winner in the 4th minute of added time and striker Philipp von Taube added the third in the 6th minute of added time.
Somehow, some way, Bayern ended the match as winners.
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