Written by Vedran Ćavara
Mario Mandžukić has been red hot lately; coming off an impressive Euro 2012 tournament.
His impressive play carried over into his club campaign where he has bagged a total of 12 goals for Bayern thus far. Teammate Thomas Muller isn’t far behind with 11 goals from all competitions.
Since he has been in such prolific form, one would think that Mandžukić would be an automatic starter for Bayern every time manager Jupp Heynckes makes out his starting line up. This is quite to the contrary however, as the Bayern manager has used more of a rotational type system, using the likes of Mandžukić, Kroos, Muller and fellow new-comer Claudio Pizzaro as the starting striker.
For a striker in form, this is more than likely going to throw them off form. Why not keep the hot hand in there and keep him scoring? Well, if you’re Jupp Heynckes, you love the rotational system and keeping your players fresh. However, missing a few games here and there throws players out of rhythm.
Now a bigger problem for Mandžukić has arisen. The other Mario in the team has returned. Bayern’s record goal scorer from last season, Mario Gomez is back from injury. Last year, Gomez could not stop scoring. And considering that Bayern doled out 30+ million Euros to Stuttgart two seasons ago for their prized asset, Mandžukić’s playing time seems to be getting even more limited.
For these reasons, I believe Mandžukić will never be the same again as a Bayern player and won’t get nearly the sniffs at the first eleven that he so clearly deserves.
We are here to generate discussion, #1.
We don’t have the luxury of being in Europe where we can obtain exclusive interviews with these players on a weekly basis. It’s the reality of the website at this point in time.
balkanada
Hrvati at their best.
Criticizing people. Why dont you take a day out of your miserable lives and write something. Svaka cast Vedrane. Samo ti nastavi.
I’ve never said that Mandzukic is ever going to be like Neymar, Ronaldo or Messi.
I’ll agree that you need great service to be a good finisher…but…you also have to put the chances away and be in the right place at the right time.
Look at Fernando Torres…gets great service from Lampard, Mata and Eden Hazard to name a few, and he still can’t put chances away.
My only problem is with people who make Mandzukic out to be more than he is. He’s an excellent goal poacher and for this he needs good service. He’s never gonna be one to go on mazy Neymar-like runs from midfield. Or create much on his own for that matter.
also wanted to add i don’t think the purpose of the articles is to win a journalism award but to start conversation about relevant topics to the nt .
@ un bbb lievable
the article seemed pretty fair to me without being sensationalist. it even started with a question mark in the title. i don’t think the writer criticized mandzukic for his goal scoring and even said he deserves to play. but he did bring up the reality of the difficult situation mandzo is likely to find himself in where he’s on a very talented team and with the slightest slip up in form may find himself watching. hopefully not. but its a pretty fair question for this website to address
I’ll be perfectly honest and admit this too; this was probably one of the worst pieces I’ve written for this place thus far. I kinda felt rushed and wanted to get something posted but believe me, there will be better pieces to come.
un-BBB-eleivable, we write this for fun, not for any popularity or monetary gain. However, if you feel so obliged and dislike the writing, feel free to head on over to gol.hr and read some elaborate and well though out journalism, that or bleacherreport.com
it means the service they get is ridiculous. before gomez there was elber, maakay, toni. all top goalscores in bundesliga.
Where are the party in L.A.area tonight ?
Ridiculous article, stinks of gutter ‘journalism’ (I use that term very lightly), desperate to fill in column space. If a player can’t score he is questioned and criticised, now he can’t stop scoring and the same applies? I don’t give a fuck about how good his service is, look at the service Torres is getting and he can’t score in a brothel! Or I suppose Van Nistelrooy was overrated due to his “service”?
Each article like this reiterates the lack of knowledge this website has or more accurately the sensationalism that gets printed desperate for a reaction and the absolute goons who comment desperate to show their football “nous”.
Stick to reporting the news, not gutter opinion pieces desperate for a reaction and naive statements…… or stick to shitty American sports
@ Ziva:
I agree, Bayern’s wingers produce consistently good service.
@Everyone:
Does anyone know Jersey Cro?
I believe he lives in an area of coastal NJ that was hit pretty hard. He usually chimes in on SMM articles.
How? Another version of Mare i Kate?
@yyyyyy
http://www.index.hr/black/clanak/igor-stimac-pomoci-ce-mladom-osjecaninu-da-uglazbi-svoju-dirljivu-domoljubnu-pjesmu/649889.aspx
POGLEDAJTE PRAVILNIK LOKOMOTIVE ZA SRAZ SA DINAMOM 1. Nitko Sammiru ne smije prići bliže od deset metara Filho mora imati potpunu slobodu u igri, nitko ga ne smije ometati, sputavati, ne daj Bože uklizavati mu… 2. Zabranjeni udarci prema Kelavi s manje od 30 metara Ne igrajte se životima na Kruninu debiju, pustite malo i Ivana da predahne uoči kijevskog Dinama! 3. Kramariću, ne izazivajte vraga, ne osvećujte se! Andrej mora igrati povučenije, najbolje zadnjeg veznog, da slučajno ne prestigne Sammira na listi strijelaca… 4. Tko slučajno zabije, odmah ide na posudbu u Radnik! Otme li se tko kontroli, u prekidu dođe pred Kelavu i slučajno zabije, do ljeta se seli u sesvetski drugoligaš! 5. Tko bude najmanje opasan, čeka ga posebna nagrada Priuštite si zimu iz snova – najkorektniji i najbezopasniji igrač lokosa ide s Dinamom na pripreme u Brazil!
Mandzo je legenda i always like him even before his Dinamo days, He did produce with wolfsburg remember 56 caps 20 goals not bad.
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whos it by and a title?
Looks like we are going to have a new domoljubna song soon. The text is great and I’m looking forward to it. Read the lyrics here.
http://www.index.hr/black/clanak/ko-je-to-mojoj-hrvatskoj-rusio-sne-na-stranicama-vlade-rh-mladic-objavio-dirljivu-domoljubnu-pjesmu-/646969.aspx
@Dukic
What does that mean?
never judge a bayern forward. ever.
Robben sucks ass….same move right to left every single time, my grandmother could cover that guy…..brutal.
The nature of playing for Bayern is that you will ALWAYS be fighting for your spot, no matter how hot you are…..it’s a long season, to me this article is so un-necessary…..take the rest Mandzo, work hard in training and keep rocking those goals! Oh yeah, keep saluting the generale too, in spite of what the league and media say!
Zivio Mario!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mandzukic go to Milan > please ..
This is the second tiem but…i agree with Ziva
Give me the same service from Lamb, Ribery and Robben and I can score a few goals as well.
I’m not knocking Mandzukic. He’s exceeded my expectations, but put any of the top 10 forwards in germany on that Bayern team and they would be producing goals at the same rate.
Mandzu’s dribbling and ball control are inferior to the others. He puts the ball in the net but most of his goals have been olic style. I’d like to see better ball control and distribution from him, as well as shots from the outside. If he can start getting a consistent strike from the 18 I feel like he will out shine the others in his scoring ability.
neither of them are guaranteed a starting spot, hopefully this will motivate mandzukic to work harder and produce better results and become better as a player! i hope mandza becomes a better player from this and i hope to still see him starting for die roten in the XI. pack ma’s mandza!!