Steffiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Points (Road to WWC 2019)[R]

why didn't Meinert come with her strongest lineup, but her squad lost a couple of games/zero goals offensively at this mini tourney
https://us.women.soccerway.com/international/world/sud-ladies-cup/2018/group-stage/r47736/

she's missing, Gwinn, Stolze, Anyomi, Lohmann, Lurhrssen, Siems, Chmielinski but does have a fair numbers of Bundi league starters. Not sure if it's injury problems or the missing players are on other squads(u17-19?)

but with u20 WC less than two months away, wonder why should be dabbling with a weaker squad? The French came full tilt with their stars Katato & Bacha, while the US is missing Pugh & Davidson(but their regulars all ready on the senior squad(

 

I'm pretty sure it's because she's seen her U-19's qualify for the WC without using it's strongest possible team, but known what her 1st choice WC starting 11 would be for a long time, witnessed some key injuries lately, and decided to continue the tradition of testing a few new things prior to the another WC tournaments start.

So I expect..
Linder -- Kleinherne -- Schöppl -- Orschmann
------------------------ Minge ------------------------
----------- Feldkamp -------- Freigang --------------
Gwinn -------------- Sanders ---------------- Bühl

But only after acknowledging how much Meinert's plans would have changed with the losses of Gerhardt and Fellhauer from this squad, and her still carrying the knew unwillingness to promote anymore U-19's ahead of schedule too.

Meaning even if players like Hechler, Lohmann, Lührßen, Anyomi, Chmielinski, Oberdorf, Stolze could easily replace others in this squad and help improve this team, Mienert's probably unlikely to do so now...

 

So I agree with you on Meinert trying to win the event with her best team... but just looking at the current U-20 squad, I think their biggest question prior to the WC's start is the unknown potency of their attack, with this part of the team still being a massive improvement on the unusually random collective Meinert put together last time lol.

I mean the defense should be fine, and couldn't take Siems or Fellhauer anyway because their both injured. The mid-field 3 would be improved with the competition of Chmielinski - Oberdorf - Lohmann, but still looks good without them.

Meaning it's the attack that could benefit the most from the additions of Stolze, Anyomi, Lührßen, and even without these additions it's hard to argue how these players would remove Gwinn or Bühl from the starting 11, no?

Stolze and Anyomi competing for attacking roles, Lohmann the CM, and Hechler as another FB, all sounds great... but realistically... as long as the seniors remain a mess, I don't even think it actually matters what Meinert accomplishes developing championship level teams anymore.

 

Any livestreams for the game today

 

the Canadian feed is geo blocked in my area. the only stream I can find is listed here
http://sportlemons.com/soccer

you got to click again under the game heading. Then pretty much X out all the spam

here is the starting lineup for Germany. Really disappointed that Dallmann don't start. I'm sure she'll play later, but I thought this would be a great time to charge of the team. Horst apparently thought otherwise(no Dabritz or lil Leo either)

 

Well 4-4-2 sucks for this German team, change the damn formation

Caro Simon off after 40 minutes, idk whether it's an injury or
With Kristin Demann, Germany has a boss behind there despite her speed disadvantages. Sara Doorsoun's been rather poor

Did Verena Faisst play though, or was she on the benched? I didn't notice her at all

 

Well... once again, that was a really poor showing from a German wnt in a clear desperate need of finding a true identity lol.

I saw the entire 2nd half of this match, and simply found myself witnessing the same old problems that has allowed this team regress to a state of genuine mediocrity within many of the areas they once excelled, or truly competed.

 

How's Demann responsible for the second goal though lol
Yes she was rather poor at the first goal but also the players around her looked confused as hell, still the best player out there for Germany with Däbritz who was excellent

Buchanan looked like Ramos today, and the Germans looked intimidated by her

anyway the FB's today looked like a nonfactor the whole game
4-4-2 sucks

 

Another random 11 getting outplayed for a majority of the match, only finding a route to some form of success through individual moments of quality, is a pattern than has to end if this team intends to qualify or compete at a WC.

I mean I like Demann, and believe she's a real sense of stability within an otherwise suspect team; but she needs a partner now, no?

Plus there's still no CM, and these damn coaches still persist on using a crude 4-4-2 with players forced into random positions their clearly not comfortable with, for a team that's NEVER going to create or score goals with 2 forwards.

 

I highly doubt that Popp and Maro would've made a big difference today
why do you still believe though that Peter's important for this team where she'll soon to perish...?

 

Leupolz - Magull
Däbritz - Magull
Demann - Däbritz

How can you use these players as CM lol. Yes Leupolz was good before but looked rather mediocre out there today again. I mean yes Popp today could've done a great job in the midfield for Germany and win some possession, but wouldn't hide the fact that everything's a mess within this 4-4-2 system

 

Yeah... Däbritz did something Marozsan has never done for the seniors, and stood tall today, deciding she'd behave like a genuine match winner, making sure her team wasn't about to lose a match she could positively effect.

But seeing stuff like Hendrich wasted at RB, Faißt wasted at LM, and the team as a whole forced to start within a 4-4-2, lets me know the DFB has a systemic flaw it needs to deal with before their wnt regain genuine elite status again.

 

Faisst and Hendrich looked like nonfactors today and didn't even look like average players. Also Doorsoun doesn't deserve to start anymore considering her performances under Hrubesch lol - yes she has some pros but there's a lot of cons with her game as well. Hopefully she'll somewhat improve for Wolfsburg if she can outcompete Gössling, Peter and Wedemeyer.

 

Dallmann as the leagues best creator didn't even see match time today lol, but Faißt starts in a attacking role.. because.. ?

I mean Hendrich - Magull would have been a great CM duo to test today, with Dallmann up front with Schüller to combine for a more balanced team based attack.

As players expected to score from long aimless balls forward shouldn't be a real answer for national hoping to maintain any challenge for future titles.