Real Madrid are hyper aware of the Bayern Munich challenge says Antonio Rüdiger
· Yahoo Sports
Bayern Munich are headed into a big clash against Real Madrid in the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League. Los Blancos defender Antonio Rüdiger opened up about the feeling in the Madrid locker room. He also hinted at the strategy to be deployed against La Bestia Negra.
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A world class clash
Bayern are perhaps the team to beat in Europe right now. With a solid output in all leagues the Bavarian side has shown its all-round strength despite battling injuries to important players. Antonio Rüdiger revealed Madrid’s perspective of the high-profile fixture (Kicker via Madrid Universal). “Bayern? All of us at Madrid are aware that we’ll be facing an absolutely consistent world-class team. It doesn’t get much more challenging than that”, said the Real Madrid defender.
Bayern have been on a free scoring run. 131 goals in all competitions has been the result of an attack firing on all cylinders. They finished the UCL group stages second to Arsenal FC, who have exercised a vigorous grip in maintaining their lead positions in Europe and the Premier League. “They’re currently the most consistent and best team in Europe alongside Arsenal,” said Rüdiger as he assessed the magnitude of his opponent.
A big chunk of Bayern’s goals have come off their wonderful front three. Harry Kane, Luis Diaz and Michael Olise are the leading trio in Europe with 75 goals scored per SofaScore. The remaining 43 percent being distributed amongst the other team members such as Serge Gnabry, Lennart Karl, Nicolas Jackson, Jamal Musiala etc reveals the wide range of contributions to the Bayern attack.
Rüdiger not enough to stop the #HurriKane
Harry Kane in particular will be Rüdiger’s matchup. Attacking the goal, making key passes, handling ball distribution, throwing in the occasional tackles have all been areas of Kane’s play. This allows him greater control of the matchup against Rüdiger as he is fully capable of shifting into different areas of the pitch. This basically means Harry Kane will be a different problem for different Real Madrid players to solve together. “Harry Kane? For me, he’s definitely among the top 3 strikers in the world. We can only neutralize him as a team, if that’s even possible over 180 minutes”, opined Rudiger on stopping the English striker.
Real Madrid are the experts of the tournament with the most titles and are well equipped with all the guile needed to take on seemingly impossible challenges and get through them by hook or crook. The Bayern vs Madrid fixtures in the recent past have been unpleasant experiences for the Bavarians as they had to settle for defeats despite being the better side. This fixture too seems familiar as Bayern go into it as favorites, but the big money question is, can they come out of it with the coveted win ?