NoLogo
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One of the major reasons that the false 9 worked was because of the genius of Messi. You think that either Muller or Gotze will be able to replicate that kind of phenomenol goal scoring? Why would they be interested in Lewandoski if that is Pep's plan? I can't think of answers to those questions and am eagerly awaiting how this plays out.
About Martinez, surely they can tell him that it is the defense or the bench. What I was contemplating was, if he'll be happy with that.
You don't need a Messi to play a false 9 if you have enough goal scoring potential in other areas of the team and Bayern certainly has that.
One of the main reasons to even play a false 9 is to make it harder to defend against such a system by making it less predictable but the false 9 being the main goal scorer is by no definition a pre-requisit for it to work really well.
I think if there is one thing about the Barca team of the last two years that can be criticized than it's their massive reliance on Messi's goals and assists.
Overall I always felt they looked much more dangerous when Villa and Pedro were still reliable goal threats for them instead of only Messi and while I think Iniesta's and Xavi's footballing genius a combination between Thiago/Kroos/Götze is probably more of a goal theat than the Iniesta/Xavi partnership.