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Bayern Rout Exposes Arsenal's Limitations Sports FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 GERMAN LEAGUE PREVIEW SPANISH LEAGUE PREVIEW Madrid, Barcelona vie Bayern hosts Stuttgart as for lead ahead of clasico Dortmund face Schalke MADRID: Real Madrid plays at Sevilla and Barcelona hosts Villarreal in the Spanish league this weekend, with FRANKFURT: Thomas Mueller is cementing That wasn’t always the case under current right-knee injury that could keep him out until both teams looking to stay in front before they face his position as one of Bayern Munich’s key coach Pep Guardiola, who has a deep squad the end of the year. The good news is that each other for the first time this season. In their final players with his versatility and an uncanny and likes to rest players. Mueller likes to have speedy left wing Filip Kostic is back in training games before the “clasico,” Madrid travels to Seville instinct for scoring. Sometimes overlooked on the freedom of movement, to roam the field after a hamstring injury and should be ready to looking to defend its lead at the top of the table with a star-studded squad with Franck Robbery and and poach goals. One of the few Bavarians in a play in Munich. Barcelona trailing on goal difference. The Catalan club Arjen Robben, among others, Mueller has Bavarian club, Mueller’s outgoing personality will look to keep up the pace when it faces fifth-place been in outstanding form this season. He has makes him a favorite with the fans. His value to The Ruhr derby Villarreal at the Camp Nou. The Spanish powerhouses scored 10 goals in 11 Bundesliga matches and the club was underlined before the season, Borussia Dortmund used Bayern’s slip in have 24 points each from 10 matches, three points with his two in a 5-1 win over Arsenal on with Bayern reportedly rejecting a huge offer Frankfurt to cut the gap to five points. It plays more than third-place Celta Vigo and four more than Wednesday, Mueller has become the club’s from Manchester United - now coached by Schalke on Sunday in the 168th edition of the fourth-place Atletico Madrid and Villarreal. Celta hosts second most prolific scorer in European com- Van Gaal - for Mueller. Bayern, whose 10- always emotional and often bad-tempered seven-place Valencia on Saturday, while Atletico Madrid petitions. His namesake, the great Gerd match winning streak was ended last weekend Ruhr Derby. Led by Pierre-Emerick Mueller, is far ahead with 66, but with 32 goals by the 0-0 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt, next Aubameyang’s 13 goals, Dortmund is the hosts Sporting Gijon. Here’s what to watch for at the Mueller has now passed Karl-Heinz meets Stuttgart. Here are some things to know highest-scoring team in the league after Spanish league this weekend: Rummenigge on Bayern’s all-time list and is about this weekend’s matches: Bayern (33). Schalke, on the other hand, only also far ahead of Ribery and Robben, who have has 14 goals, although it is in fourth place. Top form 20 each. Mueller’s latest scoring achievement Stuttgart’s rise Schalke’s revelation of the season has been A victory against Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez- came one day after Gerd’s 70th birthday. The Stuttgart beat promoted Darmstadt 2-0 to teenager Leroy Sane, the son of former Pizjuan Stadium on Sunday will likely be enough for Real club has revealed that Gerd Mueller has finally lift itself from the relegation zone. But it Bundesliga player and Senegal international Madrid to stay in front heading into the Nov 21 game Alzeimer’s and has withdrawn from public. “I could plunge right back in with a loss in Souleyman Sane. Leroy Sane has four goals, against Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu. Rafa worked with him when I was still an amateur Munich. Stuttgart has been playing better than which is more than the other two strikers, Benitez’s team is the only unbeaten side after 10 rounds and you can only tip your hat to what he’s its results show and is the fourth-highest scor- Klaas-Jan Huntelaaar (2) and Franco di Santo and is coming off an important 1-0 win over Paris Saint- done,” Mueller said. Under former coach Louis ing team in the league despite converting only (0) combined. Sane said his pre-season target Germain in the Champions League, a result that allowed van Gaal, Mueller became a regular, with the about 18 percent of its chances. The bad news was eight goals, but he looks well poised to it to reach the competition’s knockout round in advance. Dutchman saying, “Mueller always plays.” is that attacking midfielder Martin Harnik has a surpass that. — AP “The next game in Seville will be really difficult but we know that we must give everything to maintain this run of results,” Real Madrid goalkeeper Kiko Casilla said. Bayern rout exposes SOUTH AMERICAN DUO Barcelona remains without the injured Lionel Messi but it has been thriving under the command of Brazilian forward Neymar and Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez. The Arsenal’s limitations duo has combined for 17 of the team’s last 20 goals. Neymar scored twice and Suarez netted once on LONDON: Arsenal’s 5-1 thrashing by Bayern Wednesday in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over BATE Borisov in Munich reflected the extent of their current the Champions League. “Last season was the best in my injury problems, but it also emphasized the life, but now I am in a great moment,” said the 23-year- underlying vulnerability that continues to old Neymar, who is the Spanish league’s leading scorer undermine Arsene Wenger’s team. with nine goals. Defenders Hector Bellerin and Laurent Koscielny were the latest players to succumb Benzema doubts to injury, meaning that Arsenal were missing Real Madrid’s team has been depleted by a series of 10 senior players for Wednesday’s game at injuries this season and now it also has to face an off- the Allianz Arena. But for a side nurturing Premier League the-field problem with striker Karim Benzema, who is title aspirations, it was a humiliating loss- involved in a blackmail investigation in France. Benzema Arsenal’s joint-heaviest in the Champions is back in his home country facing preliminary criminal League-and left their hopes of reaching the charges as part of the probe over a sex tape involving last 16 dangling by a thread. “They came on France teammate Mathieu Valbuena. Benzema spent the pitch just like, ‘Beat us,’” said unim- about 24 hours in custody in Versailles and it remains pressed former Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel uncertain when he will return to Madrid. Real Madrid is Petit. “No character, no passion on the pitch.” yet to comment on the striker’s situation, but he most The British press did not mince their words likely won’t be available for the trip to Seville. on Thursday either, with ‘Mullered’-a play on the name of two-goal Bayern forward Marcelo setback Thomas Muller-the headline of choice on In addition to the absence of Karim Benzema, Real several back pages. Madrid coach Rafa Benitez will also be without left back While acknowledging Bayern’s clear MUBICH: Arsenal’s French defender Mathieu Debuchy and Bayern Munich’s Marcelo, who injured a left leg muscle in the first half superiority, the verdicts were all the more German striker Thomas Mueller (right) vie for the ball during the UEFA against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. Madrid doctors damning because Arsenal’s recent form has Champions League Group F second-leg football match between FC Bayern still haven’t disclosed the extent of the injury, but the sparked hope that this may be the season Munich and Arsenal FC in Munich on November 4, 2015. — AFP Brazilian defender is in danger of missing the game that they end their 11-year wait for a league against Barcelona in two weeks. In the Champions title. A run of five straight wins, including a Arsenal badly missed Bellerin and Koscielny weaknesses, be it exposing themselves to League game, Marcelo was replaced by Nacho ruthless 3-0 defeat of Manchester United, has in Munich, with Koscielny’s deputy Gabriel at counter-attacks by flooding forward in cava- Fernandez, who eventually scored the winner for the left Arsenal level on 25 points with leaders fault for the opening goal and stand-in right- lier fashion or, as against Bayern, not doing Manchester City after 11 games. With Spanish side. back Mathieu Debuchy repeatedly embar- enough to protect their vulnerability at the Chelsea flatlining and United enduring a rassed by Kingsley Coman and Douglas back. “Arsenal’s full-backs had little or no pro- chronic goal shortage, Arsenal are widely Costa. tection and that is where all the chances Rakitic’s absence seen as City’s most credible rivals, but it is came from,” said former Liverpool defender Barcelona also has been plagued by injuries this sea- often a case of one step forward, two steps Weak links Mark Lawrenson, analyzing the match for BBC son and it could be without one of its regular starters in back. Arsenal can outclass United and beat Wenger admitted that Arsenal had been radio. “You cannot give a team so much the game against Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Bayern 2-0, in the reverse fixture, but also “extremely poor defensively”. He added: “The width and not expect them to create so many Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic tore a right leg muscle in lose to Olympiakos and Dinamo Zagreb and funny thing was that when we went forward chances.
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