Welcome to the FC Bayern Campus Round Up, where the matches of Bayern Munich’s U-17, U-19 and U-23 squads are recapped, line ups are provided and the highlights to each match are hyperlinked on top of the score lines of the corresponding matches. Information on the U-17, U-19 and U-23 matches is provided by the official FC Bayern website here, here and here, respectively. Additionally, none of these matches can be viewed in full length without an FCBayernTV subscription. Without further ado, here is the round
up:
SpVgg Hankofen-Hailing 1-0 Bayern II (U-23s), Matchday 8
Bayern lineup: Bärtl – Dalpiaz, Heindl, Deziel Jr., Nasrawe (82. Yanda) – Chávez, Schmitz, Della Rovere (72. Ličina) – Degraf (46. Meier), Heinz, Binder.
Goal: 1:0 Hoffmann (79.)
Unused subs: Klanac – Dettoni, Mergner, Rüger, Scott, Darboe
Unavailable players: Steve Breitkreuz, Javier Fernández, Younes Aitamer, Roko Mijatović, Hannes Heilmair, Vincent Manuba, Ljubo Puljić
It all seemed so good in the build up to the match. Due to the international break and several international call ups, Bayern II had to call off last week’s match. Instead, a friendly was played. It gave Richard Meier, Max Mergner and Michael Scott a chance to recover from their respective injuries, reduce the injury list and leave the team with a really formidable starting XI and bench. Manuba and Puljić are nearing their own separate returns. League leaders SpVgg Unterhaching drew during the international break and lost this weekend. Everything was going up Bayern.
Then Bayern lost. Traveling to a team in SpVgg Hankofen-Hailing who had not won since the beginning of August and are expected to be in a relegation fight, it was expected that Bayern would dominate the match. They did, at first, succeed in that regard and came close to scoring multiple times. The football was good and the opponents could rarely get out of their half. But the finishing was poor and saw Bayern go into halftime level with the hosts. In the second half, it was clear that the Bayern youngsters were getting frustrated. More passes were mishit. Heads were dropping with every missed chance. Attacks became less patient. It all culminated in some dangerous counter attacks by the home team, one of which the team took to take the lead in the 79th minute. Unfortunately, Bayern were unable to force home any sort of advantage and Hankofen-Hailing created the best chances of the ending phase of the match. It was another frustrating, wasteful match that happens to young teams. But it is not the kind this team can afford, given its’ clear goal of becoming champion.
This result leaves Bayern II down in 9th place, still just 6 points off the top with a game in hand though.
Bayern U-19 7-1 Stuttgarter Kickers U-19
Bayern lineup: Ruland – Wijks, Kiala (62. Pavlić), Schäfer, Ofli (46. Moumouni) – Göttlicher (46. Douglas), Santos (72. Lambe), Olychenko (62. Gashi) – Chemwor, Egwuatu, Mike (46. Snip).
Goals: 1:0 Kiala (12.), 2:0 Göttlicher (13.), 3:0 Ofli (21.), 4:0 Olychenko (33.), 4:1 Schmidt (46.), 5:1 Ewuatu (55.), 6:1 Gashi (68.), 7:1 Gashi (80., p).
Unused player: Kösters
Unavailable players: Oluwaseyi Wilson, Noah Codjo-Evora, Michel Ekodi
Now THAT is how you do it. Hosting the bottom placed Stuttgarter Kickers in the group, Bayern made short work of their opponents, beating them 7-1. Notably, midfielder Bogdan Olychenko continued his good form, assisting goal 1, pulling out a clever dummy for goal 3 and scoring goal 4 himself. Moritz Göttlicher continued his goal scoring form with a sumptuous strike from the top of the box. But striker Yll Gashi was the main story today, making his first appearance of the season after a really difficult injury and promptly netting two goals on his return. All in all, it was a very good day for the U-19s.
The result leaves Bayern’s U-19s on top of their 7 team group. They are level on points with SC Freiburg’s U-19s on top of the table on 10 apiece and 2 points ahead of SSV Ulm’s U-19s, though Bayern have played a game less than both clubs. Remember, Bayerns U-19s play 12 games total and have to finish in the top 2 of the group to progress.
FC Ingolstadt U-17 3-4 Bayern U-17, Matchday 3
Bayern lineup: Podar-Stiube- Horvath, Pucci, Pavic, Ajayi- Osmani, Zogaj- Danioko, Horoszczak- von Taube, Schaff
Goals: 1:0 Kabbia (12.), 2:0 Eggers (25., p), 2:1 Danioko (33.), 2:2 Contentos o.g. (45.), 2:3 Ajayi (55.), 2:4 Schaff (73.), 3:4 Eggers (85.)
Bayerns U-17s start the season with 3 wins from 3 games. They were also the only Bayern youth team to play during the international break, winning 4-1 away at Sandhausen despite playing with 10 men nearly the entire match after a 4th minute red card. This game would prove to be more difficult, with Ingolstadt going up 2-0 but Bayern again showed strength of character, clawing back a vital victory.
This leaves the U-17s level on points with Stuttgarter Kickers on top of the 8-team table with 9 points from 3 games.
