Allianz Frauen-Bundesliga 2016/2017 [R]

Well Anja Mittag is joining Wolfsburg now

 

Tessa Wullaert must not be very pleased with the Mittag signing. At this stage of her career she should be playing regularly, and she probably expected that until Anja arrived. What now? It's getting crowded on that bench.

 

... Yeah, this looks like another piece of poor recruitment by a WOB coaching staff who continue to be highly underwhelming utilizing their clubs increased budget.

I'd hoped WOB would have learned from previous mistakes by now, but it appears their simply in for another season of chasing 2nd place (or worse) behind Bayern, where continuous indecision with team selection creates the perfect scenarios for more scrappy matches decided by nothing more than key players individual skill.

 

I'll watch it later, but I'm guessing Bayern playing 5 at the back hoping to bore stupidly timid opponents finally ran out of stream lol.

 

FULL MATCH: MSV Duisburg vs SGS Essen
http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/...-bundesliga-msv-duisburg---sgs-essen-100.html

Lea Schüller scores an early goal of the season candidate...

 

Is Sand vs Wolfsburg tomorrow shown live anywhere on legal stream? Can't find anything on DFB.de tv.

 

Melanie Leupolz is so ****ing hot!

 

Ok, a few points on the rather boring to watch champions Bayern vs potential upstarts Freiburg....

• Using a back 5 within German women's football remains dreadfully boring.
• Bayern's coach continues to showcase absolutely no ability to progress his team towards more adventurous systems of play; like using a back 4 to get the most out of his various CM-AM and FW's.
• Freiburg's talented squad of youngsters requires their coach genuinely believe in his teams overall ability to compete with the leagues better sides.
• With another performance only further confirming what I said about her all last season, Freiburg's Clara Schöne is set to become one of the national teams upgraded CB options.

 

Thanks to both coaches unnecessary levels of negativity, the opening league match of the season wasn't a great encounter, only really coming to life once the ref made her two horrible PK calls forcing Freiburg into action late tactical switches, reverting from a negative 5-3-2 to a more open 4-3-3 in late efforts to finding an equalizing goal.

Plus call me crazy, looking at both benches, outside of either team simply changing formation, it seemed to me like Freiburg actually had the better options to positively effect the course of this match too...; and this is something that shouldn't be happening with a club with the resources of Bayern.

So it makes me wonder how Freiburg would have actually looked over the 90 mins if they tried for anything more than a draw; but with absolutely nothing surprising me about Bayern's approach, it's now down to the leagues other teams to finally expose the clear fallibility involved with their now tiresome defensive first philosophy trying to accomplish title success.

 

----- Wenninger --- Holstad Berge --- Schnaderbeck ------
Maier ------------------------------------------------- Lewandowski
------------------- Behringer ------- Leupolz ------------------------
-------- Faißt -------------- Miedema ------------- Däbritz --------

Yes, I know it will sound like an echo chamber lol, but seeing another coach choosing/allowing Behringer to be the most advanced CM in a team is..., with Bayern really needing to progress beyond it's use of three CB's if their ever going to show the signs of progress that are needed for them attain European prominence.

I mean with Lewandowski and Maier kept quiet, how many chances did Miedema (last seasons top scorer) receive..?


1st HALF super defensive
----- Puntigam -------- Schiewe ------- Schöne --------
Gwinn ------------------ Zehnder ------------------ Simon
-------------------- Magull ------ Minge ---------------------
--------- Kayikci --------------------------- Starke ----------

2nd HALF searching for the equalizer
Lahr ---------- Schiewe ------- Schöne ---------- Simon
-------------------------- Zehnder ----------------------------
--------------- Magull -------------- Kayikci ----------------
--- Gwinn ----------- Petermann ----------- Starke -----

Schöne ended the game as player of the match, Simon a close second, as a fledgling Gwinn looked shockingly at home facing a vastly more experienced Lewandowski too. So why didn't their coach set them up from the start of the game to be more positive...

The faster 1 and two touch transition game of Freiburg was a clear feature of the match, and yet they only looked to use it most effectively once they were down a goal lol.

So everybody knows they won't win the league, but seeing how they've already given Frankfurt and Potsdam bloody noses, Frieburg should really be swinging harder at the likes of WOB and Bayern next.

 

Yeah, Clara Schöne. Along with Magull she was fantastic for Freiburg last season, showing all the characteristics you'd want from a elite level defensive player.

highly versatile, often being deployed as a CB-DM-CM over the course of a season, she still tends to be one of the best players on the field; and compared to the likes of Krahn - Bartusiak - Peter - Henning, she would become a major upgrade on Germany having to depend on it's least talented players to stop and start attacks all the time...

Just look back at the struggles Goeßling has had trying to play CB for a stronger WOB team vs opponents like Essen last season, and then tasked with the same CB job look at how much more accomplished Schöne appears vs superior opposition.

Considering Gladbach the second placed promoted team, it's really not that surprising to hear their struggling on their top division debut versus Frankfurt. Any names of scorers...?

 

Need some video footage now, as Wolsfburg's first 11 line up of this season appears to be just as confused as it was last season. Bachmann CM, Goeßling CB, Jakabfi #10....

I wouldn't trust Frankfurt's result as a sign of them having potentially more to come either.... they just beat the leagues weakest team on paper in the opening game of their first appearance in the nations top league...

Plus with Potsdam regaining all their first choice domestic internationals from season long term injury, I'm not shocked they can go to Hoffenheim and produce a commanding win so early in the season.

 

Next week's match day, with Potsdam - : - Frankfurt shown live on DFBTV

 

Thanx for the link!
Again Dallmann has an very exceptional game(why on earth can't anybody else see that! Lol) and Germany's 'Alex Morgan' rides again!; at 18, Schuller just keeps on improving and getting faster by the month. Still, it was against a fairly easy team that even made Klasen look like a superstar, and Essen's up tempo/ long balls style not going to work that well against everyone(for instance vs BM's 5 back), but hoping that Essen get's more tv/ stream exposure as their a fun team to watch

 

Can't figure out why Lil Leonnie plays so well under Neid but not so exceptional at BM? Their coach had Rolser, Evans & Abe play with BM's B team in the 2nd division, yesterday, and put Iwabuchi(an excellent dribbler to break down defenses) for whole 6 minutes in there! What a waste talent?

But give Freiburg credit; great off season pickup for them in Simon, and wasn't Stefi Jones watching? Lena Petermann might just have a great career yet as a super sub!

 

Highlights of every game from Matchday 1....
http://tv.dfb.de/page/allianz-frauen-bundesliga/310/1/#filter

The DFB's choices for Player of the Round...

• Mandy Islacker - 1.FFC Frankfurt
  
• Tabea Kemme - 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam
  
• Lena Petermann - SC Freiburg
  
• Carina Schlüter - SC Sand
  
• Lea Schüller - SGS Essen
  
• Lucie Vonkova - FF USV Jena

Goal of the Round... (my personal opinion)
Lea Schüller's over head/bicycle kick vs Duisburg.