Lost 0-2 to mainz. rajtoral is bit lost in that game , thus hiroki might get a chance in next match against bayern.. but still good game for okazaki
Replaces Rajtoral in the starting lineup at Augsburg. Die #H96-Startelf: Zieler, Sakai, Marcelo, Schulz, Pocognoli, Schmiedebach, Stindl, Huszti, Andreasen, Diouf, Rudnevs #FCAH96 #NiemalsAllein— Hannover 96 (@Hannover96) March 1, 2014 http://liveticker.bundesliga.de/de/co12/bundesliga/#,ma1765129,n1
A solid game for Sakai yesterday. Didn't get beaten, and was good in moving up and helping with attack. The only problem was that he hurried too much with his crosses which were very inaccurate and not very dangerous.
Dolo is also staying on at Hannover as U-23 coach. It's great for Hiroki to have a mentor who played the same position and became so respected at the club as a foreign player.
With Slomka it looked more like a parting of a relationship gone wrong, imo. Your sentence applies better to sacking of Labbadia or of Fink, with both, Stuttgart and HSV, finding themselves in the relegation zone some 6 months after.
Yeah but the difference was that, on paper, those teams were already in not too good positions - albeit not as horrible as now. So a coach replacement could be understood. While Hannover, from what I recall, was about the president thinking they were underperforming, which hardly made sense if you consider the league table. Of course, considerations about the quality of football played are another thing, but the results are what they are... then again I don't know the fine details about Slomska's relationship with the pres. but he man he was there since 3 years, wasn't he?
I haven't too much insight either, but Hannover didn't win a single away point this season under Slomka, and they lost their deadly counters for which Hannover was feared 2, 3 seasons ago. It's been a rather slow decline and not like they were destined to fight for survival, true, but there was a downward trend. And it looked also like Slomka himself didn't look too sure he wants to go on. It was the club who fired him, but that doesn't have to mean that it was the usual panic reaction.
Slomka leaving was actually pretty amicable all things considered. Tayfun Korkut was initially considered as support for Slomka, and they both were reportedly in contact with each other after the change. What's more confusing is that Korkut initially stated wanting to realize modern attacking football, but instead we get to see a condensed repeat of the rise and fall of the all too well known simple but efficient (if working) Hannoveran counter attacking football...