Bavarian Football Works
It’s the seventh minute of stoppage time on a damp, humid night in Orlando. The Vancouver Whitecaps had just been denied, incredibly, what seemed like a fairly clear goal due to some inscrutable set of rules around VAR and evidentiary standards to overturn — and were on the verge of dropping points.
Cue Thomas Müller.The former Bayern Munich forward collected at the edge of the box and, in his space-interpreting custom, scanned around for options while seemingly opening up space around himself, like an anti-gravity well. The Orlando defenders were wary of an immediate strike or a lay-off to teammates in good positions, and so it was that three bodies stationed somewhere in…
