FC Bayern – VfB Stuttgart – Three things that stood out: When the champions get mad …

It was an impressive performance for Bayern Munich in the 26th Bundesliga against VfB Stuttgart. Despite an early red card for Alphonso Davies (12th, foul play), Bayern burned a fireworks display.

World footballer Robert Lewandowski impressively continued his quest for Gerd Müller’s “eternal” scoring record with a brilliant 3-pointer.

With four points ahead of RB Leipzig, FCB now enters the international break. The performance against VfB allows the record champions to look to the future with optimism. Three things we noticed on Saturday.

1. Bayern and Lewandowski: That was world class

The man of the day smiled when asked about his team’s performance explosion after Davies was sent off. “It wasn’t our plan …” Lewandowski said on “Sky.”

But he also knows it: the quality in the Bayern luxury team is high, you just have to activate it. In any case, “Lewy” and his teammates lit the red card. They lunged forward with energy, utilizing every available space, and performed with impressive precision on paths, combinations, flanks and ends. The goal machine was running at full speed, the VfB only behind.

“The performance was world-class,” Stuttgart CEO Thomas Hitzlsperger said at halftime. Uncompromising David Alaba and template provider Thomas Müller even stood out from an already strong team performance. “I have to congratulate my team,” said FCB coach Hansi Flick. “After the red card they worked well on defense and kept the spaces tight. With the ball it was also very good, we created a lot of chances.”

The essence of victory was to rally the tenth. Such abilities are simply world class. It hardly causes stomach ache when Davies (red card penalty) and Jérôme Boateng (yellow card penalty) are absent against Leipzig. The team can make up for that.

As is well known, there have been some who have demanded that Bayern only compete with ten men for fairness reasons. But even they should have noticed now that this doesn’t change much in terms of domain.

2. Sané finds her role

When he was bought as a superstar, Leroy Sané found it difficult to get going at Bayern. His performance against Stuttgart has now shown that his opinion may have to change to recognize where his real value to the team lies.

Sané shone mainly with the pass before the pass to the gate, creating opportunities as the opening spark for a successful attack. Even at Manchester City, that was more than his strength. The Citizens scored quite a few goals.

Many Bayern fans, spoiled by the final qualities of Franck Ribéry or Arjen Robben, Sané’s predecessors on the wing, have to classify him a bit differently. He will not get a goal, in the current Bayern they are different. But you can make a difference with your smart passports.

Apparently, Sané has now understood it himself as well. Against the VfB it was first observed that he saw the highest ranked teammate rather than finish himself. If both he and the team challenge and further his new role, Sané will become the long-awaited blatant reinforcement in his first season.

3. The “young savages” are paying for the bad

In view of the result, there is hardly any praise for VfB. On the other hand, it was already apparent early in the game how confident the newcomer is now appearing. In Coach Pellegrino Materazzo’s plan, basically everyone knows what tasks they have to do.

The excess collapse showed just how fragile or inexperienced the team’s structure is. Actually, you should have run the opponent more. I should have added at least five percent. Instead, they slackened by 20 percent. There was chaos in the allocation, the voting, the communication, while Bayern went frantic.

“The first half provided us with a lot of illustrative material,” said sports director Sven Mislintat. And Materazzo affirmed: “After the red card or the sensation arose that the party had to win or that it would go alone, neither of the two things is good”.

The decisive difference, besides the quality of the opponent, was the total will, the brutal precision and the eye for the last meter. However, it is also crucial that this VfB team remains willing and able to learn.

Many teams have already passed away in Munich. Defeat will not defeat the “young savages.”