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  • Some of this is copy and pasted from my comment at HT in the match thread but i didnt have time to finish my rant so

    Every single big game under tuchel we have been subpar at BEST. Draws vs leverkusen and leipzig. Wins against copenhagen and united but i dont think any bayern fan was happy with those displays. Loss in the supercup vs leipzig. Loss in the cup last year vs freiburg, loss vs leipzig MD 33 last year, 3-0 loss and draw vs city. I know we are doing well in the league table. But unless we show in the remaining group stage games that we can actually play convincingly in big games, i wont back tuchel any longer. You could say its reactionary but crumbling under pressure is something we didnt struggle with under nagelsmann etc. We cant settle for just consistently beating bad teams with low pressure, e.g. beating mainz, freiburg etc.

    Also a lot of our wins under tuchel have been won by 1 or 2 goal margins. Even under JN we built up an immense GD and consistently thrashed teams we should be thrashing. We have17 GD now iirc and 7 of that is from bochum. Its infuriating how we just relax after going a goal or 2 up, when a few years ago we wouldve kept going for more until we were 4 or 5 up. We relaxed against united and nearly got punished for it.

    Tbh under tuchel we arent a team that strikes fear in opponents like gala and united like we were even last year. So many former players (most recently zlatan (iirc) and henry) have talked about how terrifying it was to come up against bayern, how we would press all game and play with such intensity for 90 minutes. Of course no one wanted to come up against that. Now we play gala and from the first whistle we let them set the tempo, control the play, we let them have the ball. Gala were able to settle into the game and play the way they wanted to. No one used to be able to do that to bayern. United was similar, they had most of the chances at the start, which immediately gives them reassurance and motivation that they can win.

    Think back to even last season, going up against barca inter and psg. Even if we werent sure we would win those games, we knew for a fact how the game was going to go: we will control possession, set the tempo of the game, we will have most of the chances etc. And indeed we kept a clean sheet in all 6 of those matches. Those 3 teams all better than gala copenhagen and united btw. I really dont have the same confidence in the team particularly in big games as i did last season