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Hansi Flick was the coach who gave Musiala the great opportunity when he was only 16 years old. Also the one who gave him the keys to a German team full of veterans.
In the Bavarian team, Jamal Musiala was part of the U-17 and U-19 teams before Flick set his eyes on his enormous possibilities. The coach found in the German a great facilitator for the strikers, a midfielder with a great vision of the game, capable of boosting the game of Bayern’s most vertical footballers. “He is one of the best German talents in history,” his compatriot Goretzka said of him.
In the Sport TV program, ‘La Possesión’, it was already pointed out yesterday that Flick sees these features in Pedri. The German technician considers the canary a structural piece for his project. Taking into account the technician’s system, he could occupy the position of midfielder.
Flick has bet on his teams above all for a 4-2-3-1. With this drawing Pedri would play behind the ‘9’, in the case of Barça, Lewandowski. If we take as a reference to the German national team, Gündogan and Kimmich formed the double pivot with Musiala doing ’10’ functions. In the stage of the sextet with Bayern, it was Thiago and Kimmich who carried the weight of the midfield and Müller the link with the forwards.
With these precedents it is easy to think that Gündogan has more weight at the base of the play with Pedri more released for the attack. Flick will have several soccer players who can perform in this midfielder position. Fermín is another of the players that Flick can boost. His profile, a dynamic, aggressive midfielder without a ball and with a goal, fits perfectly for what the German is looking for for the position of ’10’.
One of the coach’s great challenges will be to manage the minutes of so many level midfielders. Pedri, Fermín, Gündogan, De Jong, Gavi… and even Kimmich, if he ends up joining the Barcelona team. If the signing of the midfielder ends up being Kimmich, Flick will not have a positional midfielder in the squad.
In recent years, when Kimmich has played in the double pivot, he has been accompanied many times by Goretzka, a soccer player with a very physical profile that allowed Joshua to be more liberated and not be so positional. Flick is a supporter of two dynamic pivots and in this sense he is different from Xavi, who saw in Busquets the perfect profile for the team.
Source: Sport
