Tea Light in the Dark Universe: Bobby Wood at Hamburg

Nice win. Must have been some outstanding coaching.

 

We usually play crap all season but then suddenly win 2-1 at the league leading team.

See Hertha. See Frankfurt.

Doesnt matter if the coach is apprentice.

 

Sorry for ot. But Id prefer someone like Rangnick.

As pick-up artist I dont want SGE as competitor in Munich.

 

Wood subbed in 53rd minute with a good game on the left wing.

As I said Wood is in my view "in far better hands" on the wing.

 

Not to be a wet blanket, but can we keep the play by play in the game day thread and keep this one clear of the clutter? The last three weeks have made this thread unreadable at times.

 

Not much noteworthy with Bobby around happened. That's why the clutter.

 

No [R] talk about the game afterwards. The gameday thread is for during the game, otherwise you get two pages of back and forth.

I am not trying to be a dick about this, I waited several weeks to see if it would get better after the initial excitement of Wood playing subsided, but it has gotten worse. It keeps the thread readable.

 

wow those are some sweet uniforms

 

That's more your anti-coach bias speaking. Eintracht has been shaky the last few games and displayed the exact same problems before, 1860 were just the first team that could fully exploit those.

That would have been one of the classic mistakes teams make when playing Eintracht, of course. Kumbela will run into defenders again and again and again, trying to draw them onto himself. Trying to get defenders to focus on Kumbela has been a standard tactic at Eintracht for years.

 

Dunno if the right thread but Lauth said in an interview right after the game "we conceded the goal exactly the way we said we want to prevent them: dont let them play the crosses, they scored 30 of their 40 goals down playing down the wings, and then we wanted to be awake in the middle. Up until the goal we did that well. But good then we came back.......".

Rather a failure by Stoppelkamp on the wing for miserably failing in dont letting the opponent cross and Bülow is 20 cm taller than Kumbela. Think that says it all. I dont see that so much wrong coaching there.

 

More then telling them what to do? Like what? Run on the field dragging Bülow to Kumbela pointing at him this is the guy you gonna mark all the game?
They knew Kumbela was dangerous, they kept him out of the game for one exception. Sometimes you cant keep players 90 minutes out of the game. That's it.

As everybody's praising Bobby's performances all the time here, I think I need to disagree here. Bobby only had a little or none effect on yesterday's win. The game changing sub was Kamara for Bierofka. We had 5 strikers on the field, and that's what Schmidt does since his time at our 2nd team - he takes risks. The only effect in difference to before was that we werent that vulnerable over Bobby's wing (left 53-64 min.) and later other (right 64-90 min.) but that's because Tomasov had mostly left Fathi alone before. Yeah, Bobby did more for our defense. But that's it. Nothing productive up-front.

 

I didnt deny he had - due to his pure existence on the pitch - given the game a tip into another direction. All you said is true.

But in comparison player for player it was not Bobby who made the difference in the end. Others did. Although his opponents had 50 minutes more in their legs. He did not play bad, but he just played the typical "Mitläufer" part.

 

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Highlights of the game here. Not much to see of Bobby though.

 

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