Philippe Coutinho to lift Bayern to the highest level. In the Bundesliga he has indicated Can already. Now the stage of the season, in the investment of the club to reindeer begins.
Philippe Coutinho was pleased, as he trudged at the weekend, in the Locker-room of Paderborn, Benteler-Arena. Here he shook a Hand, he greeted with a wink. For 90 minutes, the 27-Year-old had stood against newly promoted SC Paderborn on the pitch – and the game of the climbers had contributed to the Brazilians, and physical deficits further in a sensible manner.
The 3:2 FC Bayern at SC Paderborn was not to be however, as a must win for the giants, who also only due to the positive final result for the quiet mood in Munich – to be presented, disruptive side to it, the Bavarians, the Underdog. For Coutinho, the encounter, however, had a larger meaning: He is finally working on his place in the Team.
Coach Kovac says
Coutinho played in Paderborn at the ten position in Central midfield and tried to give the game the Munich, with its extraordinary technical skills with the necessary Dose of Esprit, with the help of his Team from the competition can stand out. Not only in the Bundesliga, but especially in the Champions League, where on Tuesday evening, with the away game at Tottenham Hotspur is pending (kick-off 21 GMT, 20:45 clock in the DW live Ticker for this), which is the real yardstick for the assessment of a season at Bayern, to make Coutinho the difference.
In Munich, a Hype about Coutinho is created, the be coach Niko Kovac fired after the final whistle in Paderborn: “All the people in the stadium and watching the game, have seen once again, what skills he has with the Ball. In part, he dances with him,” enthused the Coach. “He knows exactly when he needs to what, how, where with the Ball. He will help us with security even more. He is already good. It is integrated and happy here.”
Salihamidzic: “air-up”
In fact Coutinho had a following, especially in the first half of brilliant moments, be actually complicated high pass to Serge Gnabry before the 1:0 easily and almost effortlessly. It was often, as he stroke the Ball, if some other players are busy on the field to develop a degree of ball control.
Philippe Coutinho scored against SC Paderborn, second Bundesliga goal
But already in the first 45 minutes, Coutinho made a couple of incomprehensible bad passes. In the second half was him, it should be noted then that his strength was waning significantly. Its susceptibility to errors was greater for the particular class of the Brazilian stepped more and more into the Background. It will also be a hit changed to an interim 2:0 nothing. Coutinho is no longer the game got a grip, and not had, together with his team-mates tremble even yet, whether the SCP has achieved perhaps the compensation.
“I think he has still air upward. If he still has a few weeks in the legs, he is still fitter and better,” predicted Bayern’s sporting Director Hasan Salihamidzic. It is almost all about Coutinho when a record master is spinning at the moment. Suffering of these people, Thomas Müller, can be found on the reserve Bank again is especially.
The highest club level of the indicator is
Against 1.FC Köln and Paderborn, was able to deliver Coutinho twice about 90 minutes a working proof that he could use his special skills on several occasions to suggest, because of the Bayern for a season to transfer € 8.5 million fee to the FC Barcelona.
In London against the Spurs, however, a more sophisticated test is likely to wait for the modest young man. By then, it will suggest, for the first time, whether Coutinho is the Barcelona required transfer fee value. Bayern wanted to sign the Brazilian at the end of the season, he cost a transfer fee of 120 million euros.
The Champions League and the games against the big Teams are there, in Munich, the degree of knife for Coutinho. Still, he remains only a promise for a better (international) future at FC Bayern. Coutinho is in the king class is more in focus than usual. Only here, he can prove whether it was right to bring him to Munich and, maybe, to keep there as well.