Both Philippe Coutinho and Ivan Perisic made their first starts for German giants Bayern Munich over the weekend against FSV Mainz. Bayern went behind early, but recovered to register a 6-1 win. Here’s how different German papers viewed Coutinho and Ivan Perisic’s performance. Tougher tests will undoubtedly await them later, but most of the papers thought they fared decently.
For the German rating system, 1 is superb, 6 is bad.
Bild ratings Bayern 6-1 Mainz
AZ & RP player ratings Bayern 6-1 Mainz
Pavard, who’s actually done quite well in these ratings, had a poor opening 20 minutes, and Kovac was contemplating replacing him with Tolisso before the right back scored a goal and managed to keep himself on the pitch. Perisic, who scored one of Bayern’s six goals, has been rated higher than Coutinho in all the papers below (3- is lesser than 3)