with the advantage of hindsight-- considering the poverty of tactical alternatives and with such a damaged bench, maybe a 3-3-3-1 would have worked better, like this:
lewandowski(muller)
kurt (gotze) - thiago (gotze) - gotze (muller)
bernat rode lahm
badstuber boateng rafinha
advantages:3-5 defenders + rode in his true post not as a winger, helping stop martinez
rafinha not traveling up so far thus backing boateng
no slow dante
a true attacking left wing w/ sinan kurt
younger/fresher team to match porto's speed
ability to shuffle upfront (see parentheses)
disadvantages: badstuber as a starter w/ recent recovery
kurt relatively untested
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