Bayern's Flick 19/20

paracoolo · July 6, 2023

Based on the video up there:

Flick's Bayern of 2020 where Thiago Kimmich and Coutinho/Goretzka shared the midfield and dominated with the beautiful front line of Gnabry/Lewandowski/Muller to complete the Treble.

Today I will share my emulation of Flick's Bayern.

as you can see in the Build up here, Both Thiago and Kimmich drop deep when the two Ball-Playing Defenders are in difficulty.

Hence why I gave them the role of:

Regista and DLP-D

as you can see kimmich used to drop deep more than Thiago hence why i gave him the dlp-d role and he does it often in some games.

The Wingbacks:

as you can see for the left back and right back, Pavard and Davies are used to bomb up the flank ( Davies will go more up than Pavard and will dribble more than pavard to get into the LW area ) and they inverted less often so I decided to give them these roles:

Davies:

Pavard:

The Forwards:

as you can see here both Muller and Gnabry tuck in the half space but they have very different roles:

Muller often stays behind the line to provide killer balls for Gnabry who cuts without the ball.

and Gnabry can choose whether to shoot or pass it for a Lewandowski tap-in.

They also roamed from position all the 3 of them.

So these are the positions I gave for Bayern's front three:

Gnabry:

Muller's role:

Now for muller role I started with RMD-AT with " dribble less " and " take more risks " ppm but i often found that he wasn't involved in the creation of attacks and was really playing like wide poacher which isnt how Muller plays under Flick so I've decided to give him this role:

You can switch between AM-AT or AM-SU depending on your preferences.

Lewandowski:

a simple complete forward who roams around and does it all! Robert Lewangoalski!

Goretzka/Coutinho role:

Now the role changes depending on the player.

For Goretzka:

For Coutinho:

The Center Backs:

Flick's Bayern used two Ball Playing Defenders ( Alaba and Boateng) , one of the two dribbled more often to the other zones of the pitch while the other one dribbled less .

Alaba:

Boateng:

So this is the tactic:

other variation:

Defensive Shape:

One of Flick's Bayern strengths was the pressing.

as you can see, they were all marking tight on their players , the front three tried to suffocate the back while the midfielders and defenders pushed up.

When deep in their own zone, Bayern often used a 4-2-1-3 or a 4-1-4-1 while defending.

so here's my opposition instructions that I used to replicate the way Flick's Bayern pressed:

( quick edit: remove pass into space since it is not necessairly needed but it can help if you want to keep it keep it)

Edited July 9, 2023 by paracoolo

paracoolo · July 6, 2023

Results:

Only started the season but you can see that we are 2nd in the XG Table, we are top 5 in avg possession and we are the 2nd that shoots the most and etc.