Well, I take a dirty, dirty victory over an beautiful loss any day the week. ^^ So I would be more than happy if we are somewhere in the top5 at the end of the season. After all we were third 10points before Hamburg just two years ago with a dreadfull attacking play.
getting iinto the europa league would be nice, however i dont think we have a real solid squad that can progress in all three competitions, but if anyone can do it its magath lol
I think we could see some major changes in the squad before next season starts. So there is in my mind no telling, what will happen then. I just hope that we can keep Kuranyi, Neuer and Höwedes.
we got lucky on both goals ;D both were from counter attacks that lacked speed the 1st one the bremen defense was caught sleeping and couldnt trail back the second one was a lucky deflection, however kuranyi did create something out of nothing, kudos to him u have to give magath some credit from trying something new vs a formidable team he put rafinha in midfield to help the flow of the counter attack(my assumption) however we still lacked speed when counter attacking, rakitic didnt really show anything or contributed much good result for us though 2-0 final score
How now Königsblau? The sooner Rakitic is gone, the sooner we can get more playing time for the various promising youngsters.
I thought we would rue the day we let Ozil go... today was not that day!! What a group of youngsters in Gelsenkirchen: Moravek: great chip today 20 years old Holtby: what an assist to Kuranyi 19 years old Schmitz:21 years old Howedes: 21 years old Moritz: 19 years old Kenya: 19 years old Latza: 20 years old Plaitsikas: 21 years old Matip:18 years old and my personal favorite: Zambrano: 20 years old
the future of schalke whats funny is we are second with 31 points 1 behind leverkusen another funny thing is that we are the team with most wins 9 lol matip i wasnt very hapy with since he was pretty careless with his tackles zambrano just needs more experience then he can really play RB btw how was that man city game? 3-3? man u lost to villa
Neuer 23 Rafinha 24 Farfan 24 Stevanovic 20 Maybe we get Mezquida, who is just 18. Fantastic game from Schalke. Granted not so much from their attacking point of view but they utterly dominated Bremen's attack and thus controlled the whole match. I think the first goal was no luck. That was a really nice attack all along after Kuranyi snatched the ball. The one-two to create space for Holtby in the center, his superb pass to Kuranyi and then the calm finish. The second goal was somewhat lucky because Mertesacker's touch turned the shot into something Wiese could never reach. But there is no telling if Moraveks untouched shot wouldn't have scored in itself. Kuranyi's dribbling was nice, even so the defenders' passiveness helped. But there wouldn't be any goals in football if nobody made any mistakes. Rakitic is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. If he were one or two steps faster, he would be a really nice player.
they did an excellent job of disrupting bremen, in that essence they really dominated, via fouls or just taking the ball away however the 1st goal bremen had a lapse, they tried a off side trap(obviously it didnt work) and ur right, football with no errors wouldnt be football the mistake of someone often creates the hapiness of the opponent and the fans
I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Schalker" One difficult match ahead vers Mainz but already more points than expected. Well done
Ich auch! I have been having a difficult life experience for the last year (starting when I made the mistake of leaving the Ruhrgebiet)...so following this team has been a brilliant distraction!
im going to check around for a good stream, if not, put up the score and hopefully a good review later on there isnt a whole lot of good streams on friday
awesome we are 1st with 33pts, if leverkusen draw or lose we stay there the game at good moments but at other times both teams were locked in the midfield, schalke created more chances but couldnt put away any of them after the 1-0 goal by farfan & omg kuranyi u had like 5 seconds to make that shot and ALOT of room redeem yourself mate! final score 1-0 schalke win
Anyone able to confirm this report from Goal.com: Schalke’s Jermaine Jones has returned to training, but did not feature in Schalke’s 1-0 win over Mainz. Speculation is rife that he will make his comeback in Schalke’s January 17th match against Nurnberg in the first game after winter break.
Yes, he wasn't in the squad against Mainz. Yes, he did return to training. No, he won't be playing in January. He broke off the first training session because the leg still pains him. Reports are that he will return to the team in late January or February. In an interview Magath seemed to be more optimistic about Pander's return to the team than Jones, which frankly would put out Jones pretty much indefinitly. Of course a miracle could happen and Jones returns in two weeks. But I wouldn't bet on it.