<span class="fcc003318px">Hoeneß: Start could hardly be better</span></p> After beginning the season with a string of gala displays, Bayern showed off another side to their character on Sunday, staging a textbook lesson in the art of finishing to register an ultimately cut-and-dried 4-1 success away to promoted Karlsruher SC. “Played six, won four, drawn two – it could hardly be better,” a satisfied Bayern general manager Uli Hoeneß commented, although the long-serving board director was a lot less thrilled by the brand of football he saw from the men in red in front of a capacity 30,702 crowd at the Wildpark stadium. “Still, I could live with us winning 4-1 in every match which I didn’t rate as particularly good,“ the official conceded. Bayern hand out ‘object lesson’ “We’ve been given an object lesson in clever and effective football,” lamented KSC boss Edmund Becker after watching his side go two down in the first 20 minutes. Bayern strike pair Luca Toni (5th minute) and Miroslav Klose (20) put away the visitors’ first two chances of the match and moved onto four and five league goals for the season respectively. After the restart, Hamit Altintop made the most of a start ahead of Bastian Schweinsteiger to add a 49th-minute third. Massimilian Porcello pulled one back for the game home team just three minutes later, but Zé Roberto (75) wrapped up the points once and for all. “They had five chances and scored four goals. You can see Bayern are a really class act,” Karlsruhe keeper Markus Miller neatly summed up. Wasteful with possession Despite the emphatic scoreline, the Munich camp was a relatively subdued place afterwards. “I’m not as satisfied as you might think I would be after this result. We surrendered possession too often, and we were frequently careless. If KSC had been a bit smarter, it could all have gone very wrong,” grumbled Ottmar Hitzfeld, specifically finding fault with his men for the spells when the score stood at 1-0 and 3-1. “We let them hit us on the break with the score at 3-1. That simply shouldn’t be happening. If they’d scored a second, the stadium would have exploded and we’d have been fighting for our lives. That’s unnecessary,” the Bayern coach explained. “KSC played refreshing, attacking football, and we gave them all the chances they needed to do so,” Hoeneß added. Graft required against Cottbus The statistics prove that the league leaders allowed the promoted club more shots at goal than any previous opponents this term. “The likes of Schalke hardly had a sniff,” Hitzfeld pointed out on Monday morning, identifying a series of incidents he fund not to his liking and replaying them on video for the benefit of the team. “It’s nice to win 4-1 and still have a few areas where there’s room for improvement. It’s always easier to talk through this kind of thing when you’re winning.“ As it happens, time on the training ground to work through the problem areas is at a premium. Bayern entertain bottom club Energie Cottbus on Wednesday and will hope to extend their lead in the standings. “The form book says we have to take all three points, but we’ll have to work exceptionally hard yet again,” Hitzfeld urged.</p> <span class="fcc003318px"></span></p> <span class="fcc003318px"></span></p>
