of course BVB cant back up their win from tuesday
I was reading some Bayern forums earlier this week and the way some of their fans discredited Kovac for his double last year, on the basis that winning the double in Germany is basically the baseline expectation for any Bayern manager and team, made me think of two things that, admittedly, I already knew.
1) This Bayern team, even in crisis mode, is still far more talented than any team in Germany and are the runaway favorites to win the Bundesliga again this year.
2) How the fuck can any fan extract entertainment out of watching their team when the baseline expectations are to win both trophies in the country every single year? Every game where points are dropped is a crisis. And, admittedly, I'm not saying we're any better ourselves over here - Crisis Mode for any non-wins is pretty much standard protocol at any top club unfortunately - but the level of entertainment and drama you can extract from any teams you support tend to come from the expectations you have relative to that. In non-gibberish English, that is to say that, if your expectations are championship-or-bust, then everything prior to winning the championship is merely a means to an end, and if you fall short of expectations? Then you've wasted your time and gotten nothing to show for it. And that sounds like a miserable way to go through watching your sports teams. Everyone wants to win a championship - I've been an Inter fan since 2013 and have never experienced a trophy myself in my time as a supporter - but there's a difference between having realistic hopes for winning one, and basically saying it would be a catastrophic failure to not win one. It pretty much goes without saying that I will appreciate Inter's next Scudetto far more than any Bayern fan will appreciate their next Bundesliga championship (I forget the German compound word for that at the moment), assuming of course that I, or anyone else here, am around to see our next Scudetto.
Oh, and as for Dortmund, they went to the Allianz last year in a tight title race and got annihilated as well. Favre is the Swiss Spalletti. He can invigorate a club when he arrives, but will he ever win a championship in a top league? No. He doesn't have the mentality to steer his club in that direction. He's not a bad manager by any means, and he has good tactical acumen, but at the top levels that only goes so far. Like, I would take Conte over Favre every day of the week. His histrionics in the media can get annoying, but he's a flat-out winner. If he's not our next Scudetto-winning manager, then it might be a while before we find our next Scudetto-winning manager.
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For me, that's a dive because he begins his simulation and then later makes negligible contact. Does the VAR room not check it after the ref awards the pen? Surely anyone watching that in the replay provided can clearly see he throws himself to the ground (simulation) then lightly brushes the defenders leg. It's not dissimilar to the penalty given to Ronaldo vs Genoa. 
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