By Chris Wright
On what we think we’re right in saying was his second appearance for the club, Thiago Alcantara opened his Bayern Munich account this afternoon – deflecting a cross home with nowt but his nip-nips as Bayern beat Borussia Monchengladbach 5-1 in the Telekom Cup Final…
While we’re on the subject of the Telekom Cup (a little pre-season tournament between four Bundesliga sides with matches that only last 60 mins), Marco Reus’ “lionness taking down a water buffalo calf” tackle on Monchengladbach’s Christoph Kramer in the previous round is also worthy of a shufty…
Textbook stuff.