The FO made a HUGE mistake leaving Favre on thr bench. Favre "case" is very similar to Valverde's in Barca, too many waisted points and the team has has 0 constantcy. A horrible mistake by Zorc and Watzke, they should bring someone in the winter who would have a month to change something in this poor game and form, you could even try that, if you fail, you fail.. But they never tried to change something, it is clear from the moon that this season is already over.. And Sancho is leaving in summer, what a shame...
I couldn't follow the game. My first reaction after checking how the game developed and before seeing video footage was that you shouldn't put your hope too often on someone bailing you out like this and secondly, despite the final result, the club has to realize that it's already a failure (and warning sign) when you are in the position to face a 2 goal deficit (twice) against Augsburg (with all due respect). Augsburg had a great run of form with 5 wins in the last 7 games until the winter break but this shouldn't be our benchmark. After seeing some highlights, it looked like we had a ton of other chances. There is no doubt that the team is capable to overwhelm these kind of teams offensively. With better/even normal finishing this could have been a blowout. The goals we conceded looked too easy but that's nothing new. Even if I had seen the game, I'm not sure I could honestly tell whether it's Favre's system that seems to fit the team better and that helps to create this amount of chances or whether it's mostly due to the talent level in this team.
Last two matches, RBL have looked dreadful both home and away. Pretty much gave up the lead in two matches to Bayern... Very similar to our lead last year minus the huge lead.. So disappointing to see this.
Gladbach returned the favor with similarly unforced errors just like Leipzig gave them gifts in the first half. 2:2 in the end and Leipzig did indeed look shocking in the first half for some phases. Gladbach's Plea got 2 yellows: First for dissenting, then for dissenting/hand gestures for the yellow card he just received. You cannot be dumber and I'm actually glad they strengthened the rules in that regard. It's a nuisance seeing that childish behaviour and the sooner you get rid of that the better.
It was childish by Plea... and it was childish reffing as well. Plea was right that he got a clear two-hand shove, not possible to be missed, and the ref didn't call it. It was actually a pretty bad game by the ref and it was his shitty reffing that provoked Plea. Beyond that, he hadn't given Plea a warning and it would have been okay to give him a warning, then a yellow. Or even a yellow and a stern "next time...". Or just have called the obvious foul like a competent, unbiased ref? What is a player supposed to think when that happens? "For some reason the ref feels it is okay to foul me/my team?" Hopefully the ref gets dinged for that in private, because it was trash reffing, and it turned the game. I am not worried that Plea isn't going to get dinged, obviously he'll get his.
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I think it might b a blessing in disguise ... Reus has been poor. Opens the door for Hazard and Reyna ... am worried about how Can fits into the team. He didn't play defence the last game ... makes no sense to have bought him when u have similair players in Witsel, Delaney, and Raschl already there.
I agree, the biggest benefactor should be Reyna as he should play with Haaland and Sancho if we continue the same formation as Bremen. However I see Favre just swapping Hazard into Reus's spot instead.
I think Favre will go back to 3-4-3 given the defensive joke that was the Leverkusen game. But if Brandt will be missing, I'm not sure Can can replace his creativity.
I thought he played Zagadou Hummels and Akanji as the 3 CBs vs Leverkusen Guerrero and Hakimi as wingbacks In a 343
No.. I saw it as a 4-2-3-1 with Akanji playing as right back and Hakimi as winger! Which was an incomprehensible choice to play 2 players out of position.
There are still players that haven’t played anything or little this season (Balerdi, Morey, Götze and Dahoud). Maybe it’s time to line up some of them now, so the first 11 won’t be overloaded and prone to injuries. First of all it’s important to rest veterans like Piszczek and Witsel. Looks like LF puts on the strongest 11 no matter what. By now we have only seen the same team week in and week out.
If we dont win tommorow, i would say its all over, but i think its already over, dont want to be pessimistic, but to win the title we need at least 9 wins in the last 12 matches, at least.. And i dont think that will ever happen with LF coaching.. 10 wins in 12 matches with LF on the bench sounds like some crazy SF movie
Will this be allowed? I thought there was a lower age limit? 15 is too early imo. He should have another year in the u19 and then a year in the 2nd team. Rushing kids into pro football is not good in the long term.
Generally no, but it did work well for Milner, Messi and Ronaldo. Even Giggs too. It's good to give him a taste. For me we should have been playing a 4-3-3 with the current players. Hakimi-Hummels-Zagadou-Raphael -----------Dahoud--Can--Brandt -------Sancho-------Haaland-------Reus In games where we need to be more defensive then Witsel could start ahead of Dahoud. That team should be as good as any in Europe.
With respect to Moukoko they were talking really about having him train with the first team on occasion, and Favre’s tone was fairly restrained.
Did you read that Bundesliga is thinking about finishing the legaue as it standa right now.. There is no winner, first 4 goes to CL, nobody is relegated, next season 3 teams from league 2 is entering and 5 clubs will be relegated from BuLi. I have no problem with that, cause we have 0% chance with Favre to win the league, we finish second, CL is ours again, give everything you have to Sancho, make him the highest ever paid player, i mean i would give him even 12M+ for just one more season and bring 2 good defenders and 1 striker, Ten Haag and we are attacking the league next year!!!!
If these are the plans, why even bother playing this weekend. There have been infected players already and at least one team is under quarantine. Rescheduling a single game shouldn't be that hard. PL will stop playing at least until early April. Imagine if the season gets cancelled with the same rules and after waiting all these years, this is how Liverpool misses out on a secure title.
And now the next matchday that was supposed to be the last has been cancelled as well. Crazy times but hopefully measures for the best. See you next season?
https://www.fearthewall.com/2020/4/...moukoko-able-to-play-for-dortmund-next-season Next season we will have (again) the youngest player ever in Bundesliga..
So the season restarts in 9 days with a big derby. What are the chances that fans will try and gather outside the stadium or in the city?