With the two-day break going by in the blink of an eye, the squad is starting to regroup, and for now, Bayern Munich are in a good situation, with the next few league games not being strong and Van Bitten recovering.

For Van Bitten's recovery, Contento was relieved and unwilling at the same time, originally for a nineteen-year-old teenager, Contento was lucky, because Van Bitten's injury gave him a chance, but Van Gaal's tough confrontation with the media undoubtedly brought huge pressure to Contento.

I have to say that this is invisibly testing the achievements that a player can achieve in the future, facing difficulties, and even conquering all those who are not optimistic about themselves with their own performance, so the future achievements of such young players are limitless, and at worst they should be able to become the main force of the giants, and be crushed by the pressure, then it is completely conceivable that such a player will not be able to gain a foothold in the giants in the future.

Contento is fortunate to have recently coincided with Bayern Munich's 110th anniversary celebrations and set the record for the longest winning streak in the Bundesliga, leaving the media focused on Van Gaal's rivalry and his performance, and now with Van Bitten's return, he will be back on the bench barring any surprises.

However, just when Contento was relieved, the unexpected happened again, Van Bitten returned, but another member of the backline was injured, Demichelis, the Argentine defender used too much force in a training session, resulting in a report to the team doctor, and the team doctor's reply was another two weeks.

Well, Contento, who has just returned to the bench, is back in the main line-up, while Bad Stuber, who has just returned to the wing, has returned to the central defender position, and of course, the central defender position is Bad Stuber's job. If it weren't for Bayern Munich's left-back, it wouldn't be reassuring. Van Gaal doesn't have to do that either.

Contento returned to the main squad in training matches. Another young player in the squad looked at him with envy, and that was the youngster Alaba, who had followed Louis van Gaal's advice and moved back from midfield to full-back.

In this context, Bayern Munich travelled to the western German city of Cologne on the Rhine to visit the Rheinland Energy Arena. Challenge Cologne.

The biggest name in the Cologne squad was probably Podolski's return from Bayern Munich last year, where Podolski made a name for himself and moved to the Bundesliga giants that summer after his performances at the 2006 World Cup on German soil, but Podolski did not perform as expected.

And with the addition of Klose and Toney, Podolski gradually lost his position, and finally chose to leave Bayern Munich for this summer's World Cup and return to his famous club, and Cologne is willing to reclaim the wanderer. And paid 10 million euros for it.

At the moment, Cologne are not doing well, with 26 points in the bottom of the table. However, Cologne performed quite well in the last round, and they drew Bayern Munich's most direct rival Bayer Leverkusen, helping Bayern to widen the gap between the two teams again.

In football time, the average player will have a very bright performance against the old owner, which has almost become an iron rule in the football schedule, because the players who leave want to prove themselves in front of the old owner, and helping the team to defeat the old owner is the best proof.

In the afternoon of German time, under the watchful eyes of 50,000 fans at the Rheinenergy Stadium, players from both sides began to take the stage.

Cologne lineup: 433

Goalkeeper: Montragon

Defenders: Bretzko, Mohammed, Jeromel, McKenna

Midfielders: Matusik, Petit, Maniche

Forwards: Podolski, Novakovic, Freis

Bayern Munich lineup: 442

Goalkeeper: Bout

Defenders: Contento, Bad Stuber, Van Bitten, Lahm

Midfielders: Muller, Li Feng, Schweinsteiger, Altentop

Forwards: Olich, Gomez

Because the opponent is not strong, and there is also the midweek Champions Cup, Van Gaal finally carried out the first active rotation of players this season, you know, Van Gaal is a coach who does not like rotation very much, and some coaches like rotation very much, such as Liverpool coach Benitez, he is a rotation maniac, once set a record of 99 rotation games, it can be used to be crazy.

Van Gaal is completely different from Benitez, so far this season, as long as there are no injuries in the main lineup, Van Gaal has not taken the initiative to rotate, and he himself has said that he hates rotation very much.

In this game, Ribery and Robben were not in the main lineup, and even Robben did not even enter the substitute list, which can be imagined that Van Gaal attaches great importance to the Champions Cup.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began, Cologne at home took the lead, the first shot was from Podolski, after the kick-off, Cologne immediately scored Bayern Munich half, the teenager Matuszyk long pass, Novakovic's header knocked back, Podolski shot from outside the penalty area.

Bout made a save but didn't touch the ball, but Cologne didn't get on the scoresheet either, and Podolski's shot eventually hit the post.

The second wave of the offensive still belongs to Cologne, Bayern Munich began a corner kick, Li Feng held the ball and just entered the Cologne half was caught by a double, obviously, in this game, Cologne made sufficient preparations, especially in the absence of Robben and Ribery, Li Feng chose to pass back to Schweinsteiger.

And it was his kick back pass, Podolski came out from behind, Schweinsteiger couldn't react and was cut off by him, it can be seen from Podorski's performance and attitude at the moment that he was full of strength for this game and did not let Bayern Munich retreat.

After the break, Podolski passed the ball decisively, Freith rushed to the Bayern Munich penalty area with the ball, but met a volley from Bad Stuber halfway, faced with this situation, Freiss kicked a high ball and sent the ball into the Bayern Munich penalty area, Novakovic and Van Bitten competed for the head.

In the end, Van Bitten won, the ball was pushed out of the box by the Belgian central defender, but the ball fell at the feet of Podolski, who was following the attack, fortunately Schweinsteiger had been following his former teammate at this time, and under the interference of the piglet, Podolski's shot went straight into the sky and flew into the stands.

In the next few minutes, although Bayern Munich wanted to counterattack, but the Cologne players, under the leadership of Podolski, launched a crazy pursuit of Bayern Munich as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and Bayern was embarrassed for a while.

However, Van Gaal on the sidelines is not worried about this situation, after all, the strength of the two sides is there, and after Cologne's three-board axe passes, the rhythm of the game will naturally return to his team. (To be continued......)