Benched

I was benched. Yes. I don't know why. Kovac told me that it was to protect me. But no. I was subbed in for a few minutes in a game. There were no boos. The Bayern fans weren't like the media and hated me.

In the following games Bayern didn't play bad. Luckily I was still subbed in, but only for a few minutes. I didn't even play badly, but still got very little playing time.

We won the next 3 games and after that drew one.

After that game, I had my birthday. I didn't really like birthdays. In my past life, I never had any friends. Nobody was there for me.

Luckily in this life, I still had my teammates, family, and Isa there. 

This made me even more motivated to perform.

In the next match against Dortmund, I was benched again. I couldn't ask Kovac for the reason. Why? He would probably bench me even more after that. It was a devil's circle.

Lucky for me. Coman seemed to be injured. Of course, I wasn't all too happy as Coman was a very good friend of mine.

After that, I was subbed in. It was a short time before half-time. Nothing happened.

After half time it was finally time to perform.

I tried my best and started to crazily use my speed. After training Calisthenics for around 3 months now, I have already started to see progress in my balancing. 

As Coman played on the left wing, I played in this position too.

The first time I got the ball I scored. Yes. I scored. With my first touch.

I was in front of the penalty area and the ball flew toward me after Lewandowski's shot was blocked by a Dortmund defender. I just volleyed and put all my anger for not playing in that shot. The shot went straight into the upper right corner. Similar to Pavards goal in the World Cup. I ran to the sidelines jumped into the air and just screamed. I let it all out.

In that game, I shot two other goals and completed a hat trick.

Both of them were mostly my contributions. I showed Kovac. Here I am. I performed like this. Still not want to let me play?

I was arrogant. But why wouldn't I be? I needed to be arrogant to show my worth to everyone. I needed to let them know that I was necessary.

After that game I got to start against Düsseldorf. This time playing on the left wing again as Coman was injured.

I still remember losing against Düsseldorf. We all remembered it. We wanted revenge and we got it.

We won this game 3:0 with Lewandowski shooting a hat trick. I made one assist, but that wasn't all I did. I was creating mostly spaces for Lewandowski to get into the right place.

With this I showed my playing intelligence. Something I learned from Müller. Müller helped me a lot. He showed me many things about the offensive. Müller is one of the most intelligent footballers in the world. With his help, I greatly improved in this aspect.

Kimmich also helped me train. He showed me his outer instep and how he does it. It helped me improve my passing. In this time I crazily improved. I was getting better and better with the templates and improved other skills like my football intelligence and other techniques.