Those that adopted the FIFA 2022 Males’s World Cup from a Bayern Munich perspective could have seen a curious factor about Morocco’s fantastic run to the third-place sport. Bayern right-back Noussair Mazraoui was entrenched because the starter on the left.
That is nothing new for the 24-year-old Mazraoui, who now has twenty caps for his senior nationwide group since 2018. However it does add an intriguing dimension to Bayern’s damage image in protection within the wake of center-back/left-back Lucas Hernández’s season-ending ACL tear sustained whereas on France responsibility. It wasn’t actually on our radar again after we checked out how Bayern would wish to take care of Alphonso Davies’ damage in the direction of the tail finish of the Hinrunde, for instance.
“What occurred to Lucas is tragic. I’m very sorry for him,” stated Bayern sporting director Hasan “Brazzo” Salihamidžic (by way of @iMiaSanMia). “Nous did an excellent job at left-back throughout the World Cup. That offers Julian Nagelsmann another choice. However his predominant place is right-back.”
Mazraoui was one in every of Morocco’s key gamers within the event and fought his manner by way of accidents himself. Enjoying on the left was solely pure with Achraf Hakimi of PSG (previously of Borussia Dortmund and Actual Madrid) on the suitable flank — though he wouldn’t doubtless have somebody fairly as attacking reverse him on the suitable at Bayern.
Nonetheless, if Alphonso Davies has to overlook video games, Mazraoui can be an fascinating alternative of fill-in. Davies has already had a considerably extra inverting position this season than final beneath Julian Nagelsmann, and each Benjamin Pavard and Josip Stanišić are comfy at right-back or center-back — the place, in the long term of video games to go this season, they need to be wanted.