Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann said afterward that Union's hectic schedule may have played a role. The much-coveted central defender is on Manchester United's radar, but Nagelsmann is adamant the 21-year-old will stay at Leipzig for another season. "Soccer is a fast business, I try to plan, and I know I'm young. [26], In Nagelsmann's first win with Bayern, he won his first title as a coach in Bayern's 3-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund in the 2021 DFL-Supercup. Regardless of who is out wide and who is inside, Bayern will often guide their attacks to the wide areas with players like Sane and Davies or Muller and Gnabry in close proximity to make magic happen. Julian has clear ideas and he knows exactly how to play against every opponent. There were no divas and no troublemakers. The German winger was signed by Bayern Munich in 2020 for a hefty fee but has struggled with injuries and inconsistency. [21], On 18 August 2020, RB Leipzig played against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-finals, where Nagelsmann faced his former boss during his time at Augsburg, Thomas Tuchel. "You've got to find a good balance and have a good relationship with your players while still trying to improve them in all things soccer and what you will see on the pitch.". [citation needed] In the 200607 season, he was part of the second team but could not play a single match due to injuries. Impressing the Hoffenheim board with his work as the u19 coach, He took over the reins at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena in 2016 and the rest, as they say, is history. He likes that he's in the same age range as most of them. Sign up to The Recap, our weekly email of editors picks. But the Champions League took its toll and Hoffenheim lost at Mainz in Nagelsmanns last game in charge. Nagelsmann played in the youth teams of FC Augsburg and TSV 1860 Mnchen, but was forced to end his playing career early due to a knee injury. Nevertheless, we can't wait to see what he might pull out of the bag for Leipzig's next European game with Istanbul Basaksehir. I want to confirm the last few weeks with the team in the new season, he told the club website. Traesch (nicknamed Trashy), Nagel and Kaufmann, now a midfielder at fourth-division SV Pipinsried, all went to to the same class in the Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder-Fachoberschule, a comprehensive secondary school in nearby Giesing. Sign up for our paid subscription [6] At the time of his appointment, Nagelsmann was 28, and the youngest coach in Bundesliga history. Copa del Rey semifinal: Barcelona vs. Real Madrid preview, key players, prediction, Infighting of Women's World Cup faves Spain, France, Canada reveals big issues in the sport. This allows Alphonso Davies to constantly start from a higher, wider position, where he can then go on to do his best damage in attack. Next season he will lead the Bavarian giants on a mission peculiar to super clubs. [8] Their good run of play continued in the 201617 Bundesliga season, where they finished 4th in the table and qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history. Because he was so switched on and focused, he solved problems before they truly arose. As could be expected of a Julian Nagelsmann team, RasenBallsport Leipzig don't have one consistent formation. I remember he looked at me and said, If I cant make it as a player, I will become a Bundesliga coach instead.. We were a really tight-knit unit, a super-cool band of brothers.. Whether its on the training pitch, during dinner with the team, or in the changing room he has a huge effect on people, thanks to his tall frame (6ft 3in) and his aura.. First, he served as an assistant to Alexander Schmidt in 1860 Munich's Under-17 side, then left for a role in Hoffenheim's academy in 2010. But this is modern football: the more games that are played, the fewer seem actually to matter. The beautiful game lives here. His confidence enabled him to marshal his team-mates, shouting out orders from the back., At a time when German football was weaning itself off its age-old dependency on the sweeper system, Nagelsmann was looking like the perfect modern centre-back. Julian Nagelsmann adopts the same defensive strategy at RB Leipzig, executed through several principles of play that I have tried to identify (in bold below). In the home group game against United, despite a late wobble, and both matches against PSG, there were promising signs for RB Leipzig, but then they were curiously limp against Liverpool in the last 16. Weve finished third in the Bundesliga, which is almost unbelievable, Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp said after Kramaric, Szalai and Kadarabek scored against Dortmund. Read about our approach to external linking. [33] Nagelsmann is a vegetarian. Serge Gnabry arrived on loan from Bayern and scored 10 goals, while Nico Schulz and Florian Grillitsch also suited Hoffenheims high-octane style. But that day, the prognosis was worse than usual. "If they love to go to training then they will develop a bit better, rather than they come to the training pitch and think 'I have to meet the manager again' and 'that he is a crazy guy,'" Nagelsmann continues. "We have to try and find successes for the future.". Other times, both midfield men may roam high as the centre-backs carry the ball into the oppositions half. One of his greatest qualities is the ability to read a game. At the halfway point of the season they were top of the league, but their form dropped off post-lockdown and they went winless in their final five home league matches. There are no guarantees, Rosen concedes. Mar 9, 2020. The centre-backs pass the ball around between each other, looking for the best routes forward into Kimmich and into the players further up the field. We immediately clicked., The pressure to succeed can make for a pressurised, egocentric environment in academies but 1860s ethos was different, says Benjamin Kauffmann, another of the clubs former youth players who would become a close friend of Nagelsmann. Osasuna vs. After losing to Gladbach last weekend, Bayern Munich have dispatched fellow title challengers Union Berlin with a commanding 3-0 win on a snowy night in Munich. "Timo has a lot of capabilities; with that, it is hard to find a new like-for-like player," Nagelsmann says. The (Spurs) game and the knockout stages will be great for his own personal development. "I was, I guess, a role model." Julian Nagelsmann is at ease with the pressure of being 33 years old and managing one of Germany's hottest teams. On the other hand, I wish there was more of a recognition toward the simple fact that there is no right or wrong way to conducting analysis in football. I hardly ever saw him make a tackle. Julian Nagelsmann, as we suggested he might do, has eased into his role at Bayern Munich by deploying the same formation as his predecessor Hansi Flick. He's also renowned for his adventurous use of new-age technology. Whether or not they can challenge for another UEFA Champions League title remains to be seen, but for the time being, Bayern are certainly on the way to winning another Bundesliga title. This benefits a player with the adeptness of Thomas Muller as already mentioned, but also makes life incredibly difficult for the opposition in trying to stop everyone else. Afterwards Nagelsmann said one of his most important tasks had been to clear the minds of the players and get them back to enjoying their football - highlighting the hard-fought point in Bremen as a key moment. The Bavarian club also won all of their six group games in the Champions League. Composite: Pool/AFP. ESPN+ viewer's guide: Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, FA Cup and more, Royal Antwerp vs. St. Gilloise (2:40 p.m.). ), - Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) Julian went into the relegation battle in a very relaxed and happy mood, telling his players that the point was not to fight more but to play football.. As if they dont already excel in all areas of the game, Bayern Munich are also incredibly adept from set-pieces. Nagelsmann: I actually remember those games fondly, especially the one in Hoffenheim, where we played really well. So there it is! [6][10] He was given a three-year contract. 41 # 45479 M uelheim / R uhr # Tel 0208/9413250 # Fax. But in truth, it rarely ever looks like 4-2-3-1. Treble for Rashford as Man Utd thump Leipzig, Rashford is focused on and off pitch - Solskjaer. You have so much potential. 42. And his jacket also came under fire. Man United vs. West Ham (2:40 p.m.) Nagelsmanns 4-2-3-1 looks very similar in application to Flicks, both in functionality and personnel. He is just 33 years old! The club followed Dortmund by using the Footbonaut to aid the players touch, and in 2017 they introduced a videowall on the halfway line of their training pitch. Julian Nagelsmann was left having to defend RB Leipzig's performance in a. on Wednesday. A summer arrival that year, Havard Nordtveit joined the long list of people to be impressed by the young coach. It is important that you have a good social feeling with the players and a good connection," he adds. While short passes are the dogmatic methodology, long passes are also used to quickly spring an attack, catch the opposition off guard, or switch play to the other side. Authentic. All the time. It was a bold, but accurate prediction. His build-up play was outstanding, says Traesch. Munich-born Raphael Honigstein has lived in London since 1993. Im firmly convinced that we will remain in the top flight., Watch: Nagelsmann transformed Hoffenheim, his way. He likes to overwhelm the players with information. Heat maps from 2019 and 2020 show Tyler Adams playing in a deeper role this season under Julian Nagelsmann. When it comes to the type of press, Nagelsmanns Bayern could be considered to be deploying more of a man-oriented press, popularly associated right now with Bielsas Leeds. Some thought he was being unrealistic but he wanted to push his players.. Julian Nagelsmann was only 28 years old when Hoffenheim made him the Bundesliga's youngest ever head coach. [8] As a result, he decided to end his footballing career at the age of 20. That doubt remains. "I try to find a good balance between all the phases, while also trying to develop new things.". Sign up to receive articles like this delivered directly to your inbox! Erik Ten Hag has deployed brilliant implementations of positional play all season long, putting on an absolute masterclass of how to confuddle the opposition into oblivion against Leicester City. He told us that we should play with self-confidence and freedom, defender Ermin Bicakcic said in Bremen. Hes got great charisma, very relatable, very open, and hes got a really high ceiling in terms of where he could go in his coaching career. - Predict results in ESPN's English Soccer Pick 'Em! "It is a big topic and focus for us -- there will be clubs focusing on [Ibrahima] Konate, [Dayot] Upamecano and Nkunku. Kramaric took over the goalscoring burden from Wagner after the winter break, and the Croatian striker ended with 15 goals. Sign up for ESPN+, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 (all times ET) A former youth player at 1860 Munich and Augsburg - where he learned from former Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea supremo Thomas Tuchel while doing some scouting - Nagelsmann began coaching after retiring due to injury at the age of 20. Leroy Sane as the left winger in the team will then invert into central areas, and Serge Gnabry may do the same. He showed me many situations on video, telling me that I should make runs between and behind the lines rather than come deep that often, for example. Can Barca overcome on-field fatigue, off-field chaos to beat Real Madrid in Copa del Rey? This use of width and mobility is absolutely essential to the way Bayern play, and how they score so many goals. Further evidence of that came on Matchday 10, when the Hoffenheim coach guided his side to a 1-1 draw at Bayern - the club he supported as a boy. Hoffenheim had lost to Liverpool in UEFA Champions League qualifying at the start of the campaign, but by the end of it they had qualified for the group stage. The . I don't know what is better because I am young, and I like to be young and try to stay young," he says. Since Alphonso Davies often starts very high in attack, Bayerns pressing shape often looks a bit like a 3-4-3 or 3-4-2-1, with Leroy Sane pushing up alongside Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski. He was quickly made the under-16s coach and then kept steadily progressing, winning the clubs first under-19 championship in 2014. Nagelsmann, a tall, elegant centre-back, shared a dressing room with top players like the future United States and Borussia Monchengladbach winger Fabian Johnson, the Bender twins (Lars and Sven) and Julian Baumgartlinger (now all at Bayer 04 Leverkusen). He really changed the way I saw the game and he taught me to analyse myself much more., Kroesche adds: Football teams have a good feel as to whether a coach can help them perform and overcome their problems. Und weiter geht's: 26. We also need a player to replace Schick. Your email address will not be published. Neuer, Upamecano and Kimmich have each completed over 5 long passes per game this season, with Sule and Hernandez both over 3 per game. "If you imagine we play every three days, you cannot work at that level every day, so we need time when the ball is at your feet, creating chances through ball possession," he explains. New era in South America? With a player like Goretzka making an underlapping run at the same time Muller overlaps Gnabry, it becomes impossible to track Bayern and their exceptional movement off the ball. And while Nagelsmanns first full season at Hoffenheim was a triumph, he went even better in 2017/18. All of this allows Thomas Muller and Leon Goretzka to roam as they please and interpret space wherever they see it best serving the team in the moment. Kingsley Comans dropped out of the team as a result, finding it difficult to enter the frame this season. Try a week on us. As a result they missed out on a European place by ending the season in ninth. That is, obviously, preposterous what if Robert Lewandowski had not been injured? Bayern Munich boss Julian Nagelsmann looks at his roster sheet and can see a lot of talent. Sane has been one of the key men in the Bayern team this year, fulfilling the promise many thought he could realistically reach years ago at City. Southampton vs. Grimsby Town (2 p.m.) Sandro Wagner joined from Darmstadt, while Hungarian forward Adam Szalai returned from a loan at Hannover to add another attacking option. I had heard that he improves players and thats what happened to me, says Gnabry. And his jacket also came under fire. He played these fine vertical balls to the midfielders and oozed class. "If you ride a rollercoaster in amusement park, for example, it is really fun the first time. But with so many players gravitating towards the left, and Davies high starting position, this is often the side in which Bayern will look to start and even end their attacks. The 33-year-old German manager was in no mood for jibes after his side - Bundesliga leaders and Champions League semi-finalists last season - were on the end of a hiding at Old Trafford in Group H of this year's competition. When we were in ninth place, we were lacking that bit of luck. But he will handle it well and have a good game," Nagelsmann said. It's hard to predict exactly how they'll fare in the post-Werner era, but Nagelsmann will have a plan. Czech wing-back Pavel Kaderabek became increasingly influential, and - with Wagner joining Bayern over the winter - Uth finished as the 14-goal top scorer with one more than Kramaric. "I've known Julian Nagelsmann for six years, while to most others he may be fairly new to the game," said Rosen, who watched the coach make the U19s German champions in 2013/14. Thanks for reading and see you soon! Not only that, but the Bavarians are playing an attractive brand of football under Nagelsmann, involving positional rotation, meticulous build-up structures and quickness in the final-third. It was a disappointing end, but only a minor blemish on an incredible three-and-a-half-year period of calling the shots at the club. Could Nagelsmann take the stress of 40 years as a manager? We had seen from the outset that he was very special. Required fields are marked *. The German model has advantages but nobody should think that unreformed it is a panacea. Then he smiles, shrugs, says they're a young team, they'll learn and you believe him. That sets the tone for his team. 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