After two wins, eleven goals scored and one title, Julian Nagelsmann has no reason, as things stand, to change his starting eleven for the second Bundesliga matchday against Wolfsburg (Sunday, 17.30).
This applies to the attack, where with Jamal Musiala, Thomas Müller, Serge Gnabry and Sadio Mané every single player shone. That goes for the central midfield, where Marcel Sabitzer does very well alongside Joshua Kimmich. And that also goes for the back four, where Benjamin Pavard, who scored in both competitive matches, is ahead in the duel with newcomer Noussair Mazraoui.
In central defence, where the recently strong Dayot Upamecano apparently needed a spur, someone is working to ensure that something changes on the line-up sheet in a timely manner. Matthijs de Ligt is slowly approaching his top condition. On a training-free Monday, the 67 million euro Dutchman toiled away at Säbener Straße to catch up on his not-so-large backlog. Background: Before de Ligt switched to Bayern, he had only trained for a few days at Juventus. His current colleagues had already really got going at that point.
Even before the opening game in Frankfurt, coach Julian Nagelsmann had announced that he did not want to use the new signings too early. “I want to give a new signing the chance that when he plays for the first time, he can reach his maximum performance. “
Newcomers must exercise patience
At any rate, de Ligt was fully involved in Tuesday’s almost two-hour training session, as were Mathys Tel, who was also present on Monday, Mazraoui and Ryan Gravenberch. All the newcomers made their debuts in Frankfurt, but will have to wait for a starting eleven for the time being
That also applies to Paul Wanner. The 16-year-old talent was supposed to play for the amateurs in the Regionalliga against Aschaffenburg on Sunday, but was absent due to injury and only completed an individual programme after the warm-up on Tuesday. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is working his way back after kidney stone surgery and also trained separately.
Nagelsmann is currently almost spoilt for choice. Only Leon Goretzka will be absent for a longer period of time after his knee surgery, otherwise the Bayern coach can change almost every position.