If there is something that can really depress me about sports, is the other side of the beautiful phrase “everything can happen”. Yes, everything can happen, including an inferior team going to the next stage.

going back, there are many things that can be written about the outcome of Manchester-Bayern-the collapse in the first game that led to the second goal and to the Rooney injury, the idiotic second yellow card of Rafael-but I think that there is something much deeper to it.

In the past week, Manchester was defeated by Bayern and against Chelsea in the EPL. Both defeats, and I have a feeling that I am going to hell for writing this, were decided on the coaches face off.

Louis Van Gaal’s Bayern is not a great team, but it is a team that punishes the opponent for every mistake, tactical or mental, that it makes, and it is a team with great mental toughness itself. There is no other way to explain its away results against Juventus, Fiorentina and Manchester this year.

A conclusion was supposed to be drawn that it is great news for the German national team. The leading German club, on a World Cup year, is tough, takes advantages of mistakes, refuses to lose. The embodiment of past German national teams. Unfortunately for German fans, what it really means is that the Dutch team is going to be really strong this June.