Jamal Musiala (20) only needed 45 minutes against Monaco to show that he seems to be in excellent shape ahead of the start of the first match.
Every now and then there was a lot of noise in the Unterhaching Sportpark early on Monday evening. For example, when Bayern had a very, very good chance to score – which was quite often. Or when Jamal Musiala touched the ball. The stadium, which was mostly filled with younger spectators, was amazed at what Bayern’s number 42 did with the ball in just 45 minutes.
The German champions’ attacks were lively and agile as they made AS Monaco sweat at the start of their final test match before Saturday’s Supercup. In the middle of it all, Musiala appeared again and again, finding spaces with his nimble dribbling that many others would not have found. And so he scored an eye-catching goal to make it 2-1 in the meantime.
“I want to remain consistent throughout the year,” Bayern’s top scorer of the previous season was almost self-critical: “I scored a lot of goals and made a lot of assists, but I think I can still get a bit better. I think I can go one level higher with my whole game – what the coaches tell me. I’m doing everything I can to deliver that consistently all the time. “
It’s not so much the delivery that’s the problem in Bayern’s game, it’s the acceptance of the deliveries, which there were plenty of on Monday. But Serge Gnabry or Leroy Sané or Kingsley Coman or Mathys Tel were always a little too inaccurate. Would a Harry Kane help? “I can’t say much about that,” Musiala answered diplomatically when asked. “The way our team is, I’m really happy. A ‘world-class player’ can help our team, but I’m happy with what we have. “
