League ugh, Champions League hui: The German record champion wins the penultimate group game of the Premier class against Benfica scores – especially thanks to a well-Cut Inside Man””.
Arjen Robben has many nicknames: “Alleinikow” called him his Bayern-colleagues of the time, as he finished each Dribbling with a doors – without his teammates. “The flying Dutchman” is always to hear again, if he goes all to easily to the ground. And as the “Man of Glass” referred to him in his time at Chelsea FC, the British, because he was so injury prone.
Not a nickname but it fits so well with the 34-year-old Dutchman as “Cut Inside”. Cut-Inside-You? This is a term widely used during the world Cup in 2014 and referred to the Trick of the Bayern professional has perfected: Robben pulls out of the right side suddenly to the left, sometimes he hits a couple of hooks, before he sunk the Ball with the left untenable in the long corner. Countless Times, the winger has had good results this way.
Twice Special Seals
So also on this Champions League night, in the fifth group game against Benfica in Lisbon, In the 13. Minute seals pulled out almost all of the right, But unstoppable in the penalty area, had in succession, four men are to lift the Ball then to the left in the upper right angle. See value. Only: Why all the pure against players for years? It is always the same. All know what’s coming – and yet it works again and again.
Always, but really always Arjen Robben pulls in the middle, to the left complete
For a seal that has been playing for nine years with the German record Champions, despite his advanced football age, still very fast. In addition, he can run the Ball even under pressure and against several players very closely. And thanks to his good shot technique, he has an incredible good average of goals. 100 hits has made Robben for FC Bayern. This makes it one of the best outdoor players in the world, even now.
And as if you could not get by the seals-classic, simple enough, demonstrated to the veteran in the 30. Minute yet again, how to do it, this time in a slightly different variant: he pulled out the Ball from the right, and then drag abruptly to the left into the penalty area. This time, he had just two against players, and moved again to the left – but this time not in the long but in the short angle. As a say still shoot seals always the same goal…
A Standing ovation for the Cut-Inside-You
The Two-goal lead through Robben gave Bayern the confidence he had lost last with regular appearances in the Bundesliga. The team members benefited: Robert Lewandowski scored two hits (36., 51.), Project Robben’s counterpart on the left Franck Ribery, was once a successful (76.).
It is not the first Time Robben in big Games – today we went to no less than the Job of coach Niko Kovac – goes ahead. He has shown in his many years as a professional footballer always an impeccable attitude, always wants to play, always win and never be replaced.
This time, however, smiled seals conciliatory and satisfied, as he is in the 72. Minute from the square. He left the grass as the man of the Evening, accompanied by a Standing ovation from the Fans and clapped with Niko Kovac: “I was really pleased, even for him. He is one of us”, Robben after the game against the television channel Sky a clear Statement in favour of the Croats.
“That was important, after the bitter disappointment of Saturday to get up again,” said seals and said about his two goals: “The were not important for us, for the team, I play for myself.” It used to be different, keyword: “Alleinikow”. What remains after the performance against Benfica, his Cut-Inside-the Trick: On the right, sometime in the middle. To shoot with my left. The man deserves to all of its other nicknames is still an adjective, such as writers Franz Kakfa once: robbenesk!