You have to remember that the individual errors came from the extreme pressure and intensity Leipzig came with after the break, so I wouldn’t blame only Bürki and Brand. It was the whole team to blame, and Favre who should have expected it. They just pressed us to make errors
No, I blame Burki and Brand. They are responsible for those goals because they could have been avoided had they not panicked and lost their shit. That is the difference between a top team and 4th division. This is the true definition of an individual error.
I really like Reyna. I have talked about him before but the kid is going to be the next Pulisic or Sancho... I only hope that when the kid comes up to stay along with the striker he is playing with, that they find something about Dortmund that makes them want to be here for a while. I get why Americans succeed in Germany more than any other leagues but for some reason they dont seem to appreciate the league like they do the EPL. Frankly I enjoy watching English football but at times it can be boorish and sluggish compared to German soccer.
Nope, I just believe these were glaring examples of a textbook definition of a individual error. Unfortunately, both were direct causes to goals. You cannot blame the rest of the team for Brandt passing the ball to Werner.
You can, because u would have to ask why that line was so high to begin with. That was a mistake on Favre's part ... y wasn't that team sitting deeper on a 2 goal lead. Y was Paco not brought on towards the end ...84th min sub bring on Schultz in a tied game ?? Favre's got his faults.
We kept a high line because inviting pressure into our own half when the game is not over at 2-0 is cowardly and dumb. Was the individual error made because the line was high? Example: last defender is slow and lets a fast striker run past him to score because he does not suit a high line. When Bürki left an open goal and didn't clear the ball, would Werner not score with his first touch if the defence is deeper? Does it matter where the line is when Brandt made a pass behind the whole backline to Werner in an offside position? Many busparking defenders make the same mistake of accidentally passing to a offside striker inside their own box and conceding a close range goal.
Well, only if u consider it cowardly and dumb to shut shop at half time, and hit ur opponent on the break, 2 - 0 up against a direct rival for the title ? Its about being strategic, about being less naive ... The back line has everything to do with it ... if the line was deeper u'de have someone on Werner as opposed to allowing the 1v1 he had with the goalie ... it's really not that difficult man ...
Letting the league leader play the game in your half is stupid. A high line doesn't means you want to concede, parking the bus is not the only way to a clean sheet. When we have possession at home we like to push up and play in the opponent's half and Werner is standing offside, why would the defence drop deeper? To keep him onside? Youre making a lot of halfbaked points to say it's not individual errors.
No tactic could have accounted for not one, but two of the worst blunders of the season occurring in quick succession. Maybe the rain played a factor, and certainly Nagelsmann made adjustments to reset Leipzig as well.
How hard is it to make sense of a high line leaving Werner exposed by himself on that back pass ... ?? I can see the rain playing a part in the Burki blunder ... but at the end of the day, Dortmund blew a lead twice without any adjustment to the line ... there's no excuse for that. I really struggle understanding some of the decisions
Do you know the offside rule? If a Leipzig player passes to Werner in that same position, the high line doesn't expose us it helps to keep him offside. Problem is the rare error when a Dortmund player passes to an offside FW, the offside rule wont apply. A high line is a common tactic for top teams with defenders who are good enough to not pass to the opponent FW.
Brandt's mistake did highlight his propensity for inexplicably giving away possession, which is magnified by playing him deeper. But playing a deeper back line means you win possession further inside your own half, and your midfielders will more often be forced to drop deep to break the press...so....
I really don't understand your propensity to go off on tangents ... the logic is quite simple ... 2-0 up, play defensive and hit your opponent on the break. Simple. Not complicated. You don't take a lead against the highest scoring team in the bundesliga who top the table, and continue attacking them ... everything else is just irrelevant at this point. BAD TACTICS. Simple ... not complicated. BAD SUBS. Game tied, u r chasing the leaders playing at home, u bring on Paco, not Shultz for ********s sake. Simple ... not complicated. If u can't understand the rationale behind this, I really don't know what else to say to you man.
Lol. That's how Paderborn plays if they score 2 goals versus Bayern. We are not Paderborn. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, Man City, Liverpool also do not play like that at 2-0 with 45mins left. Defending and giving Leipzig space in our half for 45min is dumb, it's not simple at all, it's easy to concede when high calibre players have space near our goal. If you go 2-0 up not because of lucky breaks, attacking and pinning a high calibre opponent back is the best defence.
Is it ... ?? Then y did the game end up tied ? But hey lets leave it at that ... Its pointless arguing trivialities with random strangers over the internet, I have better things to do with my life. Enjoy the game ...
No one is saying Favre's a genius of a manager but how on Earth are tactics..that aren't even extreme for a club like Dortmund, at fault for Brandt passing the ball directly to Werner. That was a gift served on as platter with a cherry on top. The same for Burki...it was an embarrassing blunder that should make the highlight reel of, "Top Ten Keeper Bloopers of 2019".
1 point in the last two games when we should have gotten 6 the way we started and dominated these games. Haaland might have scored one of those chances but there have to be other issues that need to be resolved. That young striker cannot change how clueless and disjointed we looked today.
If u can't conceptualise how defending a 2-0 lead against a team top of the table is strategic, or how a lower line could possibly negate the open 1v1 situation offered Werner, or even having a defender deal with the high ball leading to the Burki error, then I am sorry man ... but u have bigger problems in life than football. Here, maybe this will help pacify the innevitable frustrations of having to constantly argue with nobodies on a Dortmund forum, about things that are quite frankly, ********ing irrelevant ...
@TimBenneth Those were individual errors. You've gone off on a tangent to blame the high line. In any case, the Hoffenheim game shows why we play a high line out of necessity. Not to attack, but because our defence really sucks under pressure. We are not good enough defensively to concede possession and let the other team play inside our half, even a shit team will score. Our attacking players must try to press high, win the ball back, and keep possession outside of our half, we really need to figure how to string 15 to 20 safe passes together when we have the lead and need to make the other team run and tire. The further away from goal and upfield we play the fewer corners and freekicks we give away, it's important since we cannot defend a header to save a life. Lmao defending deep means we giveaway 5 corners and concede 3 headers.
17 games, 8 wins in the league so far.. Hahahah I havent seen worse Dortmund for a long time, 650M team.. Great job Favre, nice