Allienz Frauen-Bundesliga 2017-18(Winters coming)

Fußball bedeutet mir alles“, sagt sie, „der Sport hat mir Selbstbewusstsein gegeben.“ - Babett Peter

wow her self-confidence must have been low if the performances and "skills" she shows give her confidence?

 

It's confirmed that Kemme's leaving TP, which club is not known

Be realistic; do you really think that US won't get past Peter multiple times during the game...?

 

I also see that Duisburg managed to beat Freiburg thanks to the only 2 shots at goal they could produce over 90 mins lol; making Fellhauer's late defensive error even more catastrophic given her clubs current UCL aspirations.

Anyway, I personally feel it between Fischer and Elsig for the title of best CB in this league, which makes it all the confusing to know how just how little time Elsig's seen with the national team.

 

Peter's obviously leveraging the major benefits of playing alongside Fischer at club level, for the privilege or an unchallenged 1st choice position with the national team; but I'm convinced if people honestly pay attention, they'd also be noticing there's other strong defensive performers who've all produced far better individual club level CB performances than Peter's over... at least the last 12 months.

Plus a very raw/new to the league Linder will go to the U-20 WC before seeing any senior team possibilities, but other unheralded options like Fellhauer, Störzel, T.Dongus, Prießen, have definitely been impressive if analysed on modern physical and technical standards.

 

Seeing how I've remained vocal on the notion Elsig won't be at Potsdam next season, I'm really not surprised about this latest news concerning two of Potsdam's other vital players.

Plus Potsdam always go through a transition cycle aka a mass exodus of talent, meaning they'll probably have a host of youth team players and new signings already lined up as replacements; but unlike the recent past, knowing Kemme is 100% set on moving abroad, at latest this talent exodus won't see Potsdam losing all their stars to domestic rivals.

So seeing Freiburg announce that Beck will be joining them next season, I would like to think this will also see T.Dongus join her at Freiburg next season too, as it's highly unlikely either Potsdam or Frankfurt will be challenging Bayern's UCL spot next season, and this league really shouldn't regress to being a two club scenario all over again.

 

Peter's a disgrace. Elsig and co have delivered better CB performances than her the last years...

Bayern's defense doesn't look good at all... the whole team doesn't really look good sadly.

 

Hmmm... If Freiburg vs Bayern ends with Bayern not losing, I think it's a safe to suggest that Bayern will end the race for second place, no?

Seeing their horrible trend of losing focus against the leagues weaker teams, Freiburg still have a lot to prove headed in the second half on the season, but if their was a time to get another big win vs one of the top 4, this surely would be it.

 

wow Bauern need to fire Wörle

 

It was a poor game from both Bayern and Freiburg
only thing I found good with Bayern was Demann’s presence

So Benkarth’s going to Bayern and Frohms to Freiburg? Hmm

 

Yeah... but they didn't sign Beck (Another #10) so she'd forced to sit on the bench, so it's pretty clear Magull's leaving.

I do believe Bayern are being smarter here, finally acquiring more German internationals in their early 20's, but when I look at the best GK options for the top clubs to look at, I'm still seriously shocked to see Benkarth's name ahead of a consistently impressive performer like Nuding...

I mean even if Benkarth is moving, you'd think Freiburg smarter to ignore the risky signing of Frohms from Wolfsburg, when there's a clearer experienced option out there who's only conceded 20 goals ALL SEASON for a team who's 100% guaranteed to be relegated in last place lol.

 

Bayern really need a new coach, and even though they won this match to gain 2 wins over Bayern this season, I still see the suspect mentality of Freiburg distracting them from truly pushing for a UCL qualification spot (see their coach's post match comments).

I think Rolfö, Faißt, Däbritz, were also some of Bayern's better performers too, but you know Bayern still have bigger problems as an overall team when Freiburg's B and C options are fully able to compete and contain everything that was thrown at them.

 

Oh, and as long as Freiburg continue to aggressively recruit and groom impressive junior internationals like Greta Stegemann for their first team, I feel they'll continue to be one of the better teams in this league.

Not sure how long Fellhauer will be injured, but the fact she wasn't holding her knee could mean she's not out for the rest of the season... and not be another young German international who'll miss her opportunity to play at the U-20 WC..?

And with little knowledge why it's happening, the latest performance of Leupolz just showcases more of the evidence for her slide towards non-essential national team CM option.

 

I have to credit you the fact that you had foreseen Freiburg's growth long ago. Last season they hadn't completly delivered, but right now it looks like they do. So, you were right in considering them a potential top-team already, back then when they still looked like little more than a middle-ranked team.

 

They really did fail to deliver what I felt possible for them last season, but what I didn't foresee playing such a major role in this upstart story for Freiburg, was the complete disinterest both Wolfsburg, and Bayern, would take towards splitting the best of the next wave of young domestic talent between themselves.

I mean with both of these clubs failing to integrate the next wave of top young domestic talents, you have a scenario where Freiburg have managed to retain talents that should/would have been on UCL and title winning teams during the previous Frankfurt and Potsdam lead eras.

 

See... this is where I feel there's a serious issue with peoples attempts to use biased player analysis in this league; as the actual performance levels of Bayern and Freiburg players are pretty close once you get passed the rather bloated nature of Bayern's squad size.

Take a closer look... besides Freiburg playing better football, you see both them and Bayern sharing near identical goals scored and conceded; and this knowing it's hard to argue that Freiburg didn't also showcase better individual performers over the first half of the season too.

So where's the showcase of Bayern's superior talent...? Yes, Bayern have a significantly deeper squad of elite level experience/talent, but you look at both clubs core (most used) 14-15 players, and I'm not seeing the huge chasm in quality some would like to believe exists.

I currently see Benkarth, Puntigam, Fellhauer, Simon, Schöne, Gwinn, Magull, Simic, all capable of elevating Bayern's current team; and this with me leaving out national team options like Kayikci and Petermann.

So that has Freiburg only 4-5 players away from possessing a match day squad equal to a club using 4 times the financial budget lol, and Freiburg's ongoing work with young talent suggests they might even close that gap further if current league wide trends continue.

 

Linda Dallmann was a beast against Köln

 

Wow Peter passed a good long ball to Harder resulting in a goal! First good ball i’ve ever seen from her