Lekker Strand und lekker Meisje, lekker Vakantie: Euro 2017 [R]

Talking about that: for how long Maroszan should stay out injured?

It could be quite relevant since, right now, Slovenia-Czech Republic is underway and the result is 0-4 at 80'. This means Czech Republic could catch up with Germany too within the next 10 minutes...

 

never got to see the game, just highlights, but from the 3 goals giving up, the last defender(minus the GK)
1st goal) Blasse
2nd goal) lovey dovey Maier
3rd) goal) Leupolz

but then bequest the question? where the heck were the CB's?

and............why wasn't Popp the lone striker?(instead of AM) Huth or Dallmann are way too short to get to a header

and I tried telling this even in EURO group play(before the Denmark defeat) yet batfink got all mad at me....and what did I write, that Jones style of trying to take over the midfield first by a meticulous, short passing game without using long balls or wing play(until the FB's arrive) & exempt of any swift counter attacks.........is going to fail. It might work in men's soccer(since men have the athleticism to cover defense deficiencies ala Boating.
Last week's Potsdam/Wolfsburg game led by two German coaches shows that you can use different styles; WOB excellent use of the wings & Potsdam fast counter attacks via long balls shows that where the GER NT really should be heading

 

No-one answered me about Maro: I seem to remember it was a bone-cheek fracture, but how long exactly recovery should take? Of course she won't take part to the next game vs Far Oer (but she wouldn't be needed anyway, or at least we can suppose so), but, after that, when should she be back playing?

Also, I can't help being curious about "the day after" in Germany: is anyone discussing Steffi Jones? Has DFB confirmed support to her or did we hear any kind of defeaning silence?

 

It's completely irrelevant if Marozsan ever returns to this team any time soon. Like everybody else who's been part of this mess, all she's been doing under a hapless Jones is wondering around the field like a lost zombie.

See, under any other circumstance this WC qualification group would have been assessed a pretty terrible collection of teams to potentially challenge a fully functioning Germany. So I can't see any positives transpiring should the captain return.

 

You want to know why I seem frustrated with many of your assessments on this program... it's your typical level of heavy handed tactical analysis of what you feel the German system is, isn't, or should be, always sounding pretty damn awful lol.

Yes, I couldn't foresee the critical flaw of me stupidly wanting to believe Högner (a far more experienced coach) eventually stepping in to take a more dominant role over the Euro team; but seeing you constantly confusing a coach (Neid/Jones) not knowing how to build a modern German wnt, as a solid platform for legitimate tactical analysis is, well.. slightly infuriating.

 

@hotjam2 I still see the German women's program having a well run youth department (well... partly), where it's just seen the creation of it's first U-16 team, also recently forcing changes to the nations 2nd division in hopes it helps the future development of more national youth too; so there's still some people with a clear vision for this program.

And it's with this kind of insight I often roll my eyes reading your random assertions about Germany needing to follow the more simplistic styles of other nations (many of them far less successful wnt's programs), when it's pretty clear the biggest issue for the senior team remains it's inability to replicate the style of football all these girls all grow up replicating before they ever reach the senior player pool.

So it's like you've already hinted at, you can look at the national youth/cubs teams and still see signs and remnants of the more successful parts of a historically strong German football identity/philosophy; meaning I will always completely disagree with views of this rich legacy ever being thrown out of the window, potentially creating even more distractions that will only further confuse the senior teams already muddled identity.

The main factor that's need here is the senior team having a coach who can finally usher in the more dynamic elements of the domestic club and highly successful youth program. And that isn't going to happen following the disorganized approach of randomly blowing everything up because the DFB won't act like their dealing with professional athletes.

 

I actually don't have access to German press (can't read the laguage), but this article in English (although unaccurate in some points: for instance, 1st Iceland's goal wasn't "headed in") suggest that Steffi Jones is now "under considerable pressure" (whatever it can mean), despite the new contract signed in August.

If the translation of Jones' words in this article is accurate, her analysis sounds incredible simplistic to me: not enough "willingness to run"? no "right posture"? Really? So is it all on the players? No tactical mea culpa whatsoever?

Meanwhile, the Icelandic, in pure nordic style, seem to keep it all quite low-profile: just little articles like this one on Iceland Monitor.

And their coach keeps saying that Germany is favourite to win the group (his interview here, after Popp's and Gunnarsdottir's, at about 4':00" of the video), but everyone saw the way he screamed and celebrated after the final whistle.

 

Steffi has a game plan that won't ever work with such a weak defense

 

At this rate, how long before it's the players themselves throwing Steffi under the bus?

 

I'm wondering what Popp told Steffi post match yesterday

 

Well, throwing away a chance at WWC to get rid of a coach would be quite radical: if we'd be really at this, it would be something more extreme than just "not liking".

 

Well, at the moment it seems at least in the realm of possible, and, by your claim that UEFA won't let it happen, you seem to suggest that the qualifying process could be in any way rigged?

Anyway, I guess I'll take your statement that "It's almost impossible to not qualify" and I'll put it in my personal fridge, to re-open it about one year from now (or whatever it takes for qualifiers + play-offs). I am curious to see what the look of it will be, then.

 

Well, I wonder if Iceland and Czech Republic see it the same way...