How Good Are Bayern Munich This Season....

Everybody talks about FC Barcelona and the perfect team, I hear a lot of people say "they play football, the way it should be played" and they've got the results and trophies to show for it absolutely. 

Since the arrival of Pep Guardiola in Bavaria, Bayern have gone from strength to strength and adopted his style tiki-taka unbelievable well and it shows here's why. 

Since Guardiola has been at Bayern Munich, they are yet to lose a single game in the first half of the Bundesliga season, they are undefeated in 54 league games before the winter break. Remarkable.

Second half lock-down, Bayern concede goals every now and again however when you do score past Bayern, it's usually a consolation goal with the score finishing up at 5-1 say. But this season Bayern in the Bundesliga are yet to concede in the second half, yep you read that right they haven't conceded in the second half. Solid.

  

This next stat I can't believe, if every shot on target that Bayern faced went in they would still be top of the league, What!!!!! Yep that's right every shot on target they faced went in, they STILL would be top of the league. Looks like Mr Utility man David Alaba is in goal next match. Jaw dropping.

Possession is nine tenths of law, well not quite for Bayern, however have a impressive average of 72%, what is even more remarkable is their pass accuracy of 89% on average in the Bundesliga. Controlling. 

Douglas Costa is the man that just keeps on assisting, the Brazilian has settled very well into the Bayern team after his summer move for €30 million from Shaktar Donetsk, registering 9 assists and all in all replaced Frank Ribery in the side. Visionary.  

There are many fine combinations nowadays from strawberries and cream to Jack Daniel's and Coke but none other than Muller and Lewandowski scoring 25 goals, at this point they are the best striking duo in Bundesliga history's in 13 match days 25 goals between them. Clinical. 

Marvellous Muller, in the 4-0 demolition against Stuttgart, Muller not only scored but it would be his 150th Bundesliga win in 209 attempts, that's madness nearly 75% of the Bundesliga games that Thomas Muller has played in he's won, to top it off he's the fastest player ever to achieve this feat and One of Bavaria's finest through and through. Sublime. 

And finally goals galore, Bayern score for fun and their never content with just a 1-0 win, it's like a loss to them. But in 13 of their 19 games this season, Bayern have scored two goals or more in less than 20 minutes with of course Lewandowski's 5 in under 9 minutes against Wolfsburg been the most noticeable feat. Breathtaking. 

Good luck to Borussia Dortmund trying to win back the Bundesliga your going to need it. 

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Can Giovinco Lead Italy to Glory in France This Summer...

In the Gil Azzurri (the Blue’s), we’ve always had a number 10 that could do impossible things with the ball at their feet, Il Divin Codino (The Divine Ponytail) Roberto Baggio, Il Re di Roma (The King of Rome) Francesco Totti and even in some cases the Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia (The Jewel of Old Bari) Antonio Cassano. These players have been idolized by Italians for years for their creativity, passion, flair and love for colours of the shirt.

I’m looking at the squad now and I’m thinking to myself, where is that magic number 10 now? is there anybody when you need it most to unlock that defence, or produce a piece of pure magic that will take your breath away and leave you speechless, its 0-0 with 3 minutes to go in a semi final, who can do this in the Azzurri at the minute? Candreva from wide right maybe or El Shaarawy however there both wingers, but for me it needs to be a number 10 Marco Verratti can play as a number 10 but Verratti is unplayable on his day in the Pirlo role so for Euro 2016 that’s where I think Antonio Conte will play him, for me it leaves Sebastian Giovinco.

Since Giovinco’s move to the MLS, I thought like many what on earth is he going there for? Let’s be fair Giovinco has thrived at Toronto FC, scoring an incredible 22 goals and providing 16 assists in his debut season is astonishing, which also is a MLS record for the most goals and assists combined, Giovinco has produced moments that have left you speechless or asking how has he done that? Being in the MLS team of the week on 10 occasions, two time MLS player of the month and with this being awarded Newcomer of The Year sadly the MVP award is given out till December 3^rd so we’ll have to see if Giovinco picks that up as well furthermore these performances haven’t gone unnoticed rumour has it that Toronto FC rejected a loan move for the pint sized Italian to go to FC Barcelona, after the MLS season finished. have a look at the at the pint sized Italian and see what you think. 

My only criticism of Giovinco is can he cope with the pressure of being the Azzurri’s number 10? To unlock that defence in the dying minutes of a quarter or semi final. Giovinco really struggled at Juventus with the pressure of being the heir to legendary forward Alessandro Del Piero, I’ve got my fingers crossed that Giovinco will come good for Italy at the biggest stage and none other than France 2016.

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Is Michael Emenalo To Blame For The Chelsea Slump?

Michael Emenalo, has been at Chelsea for years now, starting off as chief scout for 2007 after the departure of Ray Wilkins, Emenalo was promoted by Mr Abramovich to assistant first team coach, less than 9 months in the job, half way through 2011 Emenalo was promoted to Technical Director overseeing the scouting and academy programs.

This is the interesting part with the return of the special one in 2013 Emenalo, by request wanted his contract terminating, to free himself up to take the role of General Manager at Wigan Athletic, however this request was denied.

When Emenalo was promoted to Technical Director, he was rumoured to have an unprecedented amount and responsibility over transfers, as in the summer with the lack of signings coming into Stamford Bridge. There are claims that Emenalo has made signing without Jose seeing them play, a recent example of this is, Papy Djilobodji from Nantes who has only appeared once in the Carling Cup, which basically says to me that, Papy Djilobodji was not Jose’s signing at all.

Emenalo has been involved in some cracking deals, with the likes of Kurt Zouma and Bertnard Traore, who especially Zouma has been supurb since he arrived from St Etienne and flourished under the guidance of Jose and John Terry. However there have been more huge flops recently they are Mohamed Salah and of course Juan Cuadrado who both only managed half a season before being shipped out on loan, after struggling to get past Hazard and Willian respectively. Both now are now on loan in Italy Salah with A.S Roma who is touted to have a clause in the loan deal where at the end of season A.S Roma will pay £22 million for the Egyptian International and Cuadrado with Juventus until the end of the season.

With Chelsea in a state of crisis, these are expensive failures and with the need to balance the books with the prospect of Chelsea missing out on Champions League football, some maybe accountable and that someone could be Michael Emenalo.

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