Friday, May 21, 2021
“I couldn’t do that”
Serge Gnabry is mad at Serge Gnabry
Serge Gnabry has become champion with FC Bayern – and still takes a critical look at the season. This is mainly due to his own performance. He has to watch the biggest games of the year, and his goal rate is also falling. In return, he is looking forward to his old new colleague Thomas Müller.
Ten goals and six assists in 37 competitive games, a goal participation in almost every second game, that is an acceptable rate: But not for national soccer player Serge Gnabry, who is very self-critical of his third season at Bayern Munich. “I’m not satisfied with myself. My goal was to improve my goal and assists rate. I didn’t manage that,” said the 25-year-old in an interview with Spox and Goal.
“Unfortunately there were too many games in which I missed very good chances. I have to work on that,” he said. Last year he scored 23 times in 46 games and provided 14 assists, in his first season in Munich there were 13 goals and nine assists in 42 appearances. Serge Gnabry was absent from the quarter-finals of the Champions League this year because of his corona infection. Bayern would have needed his final qualities (and Robert Lewandowski, who was injured) especially in these games. In the triple season, Gnabry had shot his team in a furious way against Olympique Lyon in the final of the premier class.
Despite great gratitude to Hansi Flick, Gnabry is very positive about future Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann. “Back then, he convinced me to go to TSG Hoffenheim instead of spending another year in Bremen. I developed very well under him,” he said. Nagelsmann has “a good drive and attaches great importance to small details. He’s someone who makes his players better. I’m really looking forward to working with him again.”
He also welcomes Thomas Müller’s return to the national team. “He’s a driver who is good for every team,” said Gnabry of his Munich team-mate: “We don’t need to talk about footballer Thomas Müller. He has had two fantastic years and is rightly at the European Championship.”
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