Bundesliga Preview: http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/VfL-Wolfsburg-c40881 Vs Bayern Munich
Wolfsburg coach, Steve McLaren will have to start without Edin Dzeko, as his side prepares to face reigning Bundesliga champions, Bayern Munich.
After scoring 84 goals in almost 3-and-a-half years for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952, Dzeko left for the Premier League side, Manchester City, this January.
The loss of Dzeko will be felt at the Volkswagen Arena, but McLaren would be hoping that it turns out to be an opportunity for other players in his side to take his place and fill the void left by the prolific Bosnian.
McLaren said that it will be very interesting to note what sort of reaction each player in his side will show.
"I see it as a chance, particularly for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Grafite-c15198. He has the opportunity to become our center-forward and, since I feel the 4-3-2-1 system is the best one for this team, he can show the reaction that we need. It will be more important for the team that they
play as a unit and deliver a good performance in the second half of the season."
After a poor first half of the season, much pressure is on the Englishman, but, on a good note, he was given a vote of confidence just before Christmas. But the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 manager knows that the pressure he is under is insignificant comapered to that
of Bayern Munich's.
Luis van Gaal is under intense pressure after Bayern Munich made a poor start to the defence of their title, and they are a whooping 14 points behind league leaders, Borussia Dortmund, who beat Leverkusen 3-1 this Friday.
Bayern Munich will look to extract three points from this match and they know that they will have to keep playing catch-up with the runaway league leaders, and hope that Dortmund lose matches every now and then. But the Dutchman still believes that his side
can turn it around and is refusing to write-off his team’s chances of successfully defending the title.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-c9045 Nerlinger, the Sporting Director at Bayern, said that his team has been under a lot of pressure since the outset and no mistakes can be afforded at this point. He believes that if Munich keep on putting a string of good results, they can be back
in the race for the title.
Meanwhile, after missing the entire first half season after the World Cup last year, Dutch winger, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Thomas-Kraft-c34971 will keep
the goal for Bayern Munich.
This season, both sides have made a poor start and aren't at a place in the table they would normally expect themselves to be. Wolfsburg are in the bottom half of the table at the 13th spot and have only 19 points. Even while Dzeko was spearheading
the attack, Wolfsburg found it hard to score goals, and the goal difference of -2 shows how bad their attack has been.
Wolfsburg shouldn’t be too comfortable about the fact that they are playing Munich at home, as in the last 5 matches at home, the Wolves pulled off a draw 3 times while winning one and losing a game.
After a shaky start to the season, Bayern Munich finally found their feet and, owing to the brilliant scoring resurgence of Mario Gomez, Munich are still in a position where they can take the title contention down to the wire.
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