Sadio Mané on his Bayern start: “It’s not easy to adapt”
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Sadio Mané spoke about his first weeks at Bayern and explained that adapting wasn’t easy. He raves about his teammates.
Sadio Mané has finally scored his first home goal. After the criticism of the last few weeks, the Bayern star explained that he still had to get used to the new environment. The star striker gets enthusiastic about his teammates.
“It’s going quite well. It’s not easy because everything has changed so suddenly: people, training, everything,” Sadio Mané told UEFA. In the summer, the 30-year-old switched from Liverpool to Bayern Munich for a fee of 32 million euros. A world star came to Säbener Straße – the expectations were correspondingly high.
And the Mané theme has been made appropriately big after falling a bit from his form in recent weeks. Mané remained without a goal of his own for six competitive games in a row. However, the Bayern camp kept saying that it would take time for the Senegalese to realize his full potential.
In the comfortable 4-0 home win against Leverkusen on Friday, the 30-year-old promptly scored his long-awaited first goal in the Allianz Arena. His sixth goal in twelfth competitive game for Bayern. With all the criticism of the last few weeks: A yield that is quite impressive and gives an idea of what Mané can still do in the FCB jersey.
Mané raves about the young Bayern squad
“I have to adapt. I knew that and it didn’t come without a surprise,” explained the striker. He doesn’t seem to regret his move to Munich: “The people here welcome me. The people at the club are great, I’m very happy.”
Mané then had a lot of praise for his new teammates: “It’s the first time in my career that I’m part of such a young squad. What I particularly notice is that they’re all very hungry. They want to develop and are alert. It’s easy to play alongside these youngsters, who are all enormously talented and have a great future,” enthused Mané.
After the last four Bundesliga games without a win, Bayern could have gotten back into shape in time for a packed October. The performances themselves were not the big problem in the past few weeks anyway – mostly the record champions simply lacked the necessary effectiveness in front of goal.
Mané and Co. showed once again against the Werkself that a lot can be achieved this season if we exploit chances more consistently – even without a genuine, world-class centre-forward. Mané is particularly interested in the handle pot.
In 2019 he was already able to do that with Liverpool Champions League to win. “It was just beautiful,” Mané recalled. “It’s something very special. It’s every footballer’s dream. When I was a child, I only watched the Champions League,” the Senegalese continued. On Tuesday he can appear again in the premier class. At 6:45 p.m., Bayern welcome outsider Viktoria Pilsen and want their third win in the third group game.
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