Yes! Haven't heard any props for Josh by the announcers yet. He did so well there into create one of the only chances if the game.
Still, with Pizza scoring, he's keeping ahead of our boy on the supersub list. PS: Reading the Bremen forums, the fact that they call Pizarro, who after all is only 40, "der alte Mann," makes me feel like a mummy.
Bremen have a fragile team psychology. They just have to bear up and welcome Sarge into the game at the tail end because he definitely adds a wrinkle late. Coming in at 75' or so looks good to me. He needs 5 minutes to warm up and find the game, anyway.
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...ielbericht_hertha-bsc-29_werder-bremen-4.html In which Kicker refers to our boy as "Joker Sargent," presumably accidentally. Hey, I'd take that over the insipid "Red Baron" moniker.
I watched the whole thing, was inches from turning it off when the last fracas happened... My laziness for once paid off. That said, Bremen looked pretty pedestrian for 94 minutes. Saved by the woodwork 2x. But Hertha fell asleep. Sarge looked lively.
Pizarro is 40 years old and playing professional sports. Unless he’s actually a robot that’s basically impossible to do if you are partying too much
Sargent made decent runs, though nothing ground breaking. His minutes and Bobby Wood's looked very similar. Hertha hit the woodwork at least three times in this (Selke off the right post early, that tip by the keeper onto the crossbar, and the later game turn-and-shoot that hit the top left [or was that last one the Hoffenheim game? too much soccer]). Werder had no business being able to steal a point here. I'd say Sargent was okay. He did draw that foul, but it was really incredible luck the free kick scored.
did you ever play? If you don't jump before the ball is quite kicked, you can't get up from 10 yds away.
The free kick might take .3 seconds to cross the 10 yards. Human reaction time is .2 seconds or so. If you wait to see where the ball's going before deciding to jump, you might as well not jump.
Sargent had one bad touch about 30 seconds after he came on and after that he was very physical and attacking and did ok .... he only got one chance to attack the goal and he took it and was hammered down .. then the Alt Mann did his thing. Let's not forget he is 18, his coach put him in on the road when they were down a goal. That is a good sign. He just needs to keep training hard and be ready.
Putting in Bobby Wood like performances as an 18 yo is a pretty good thing. I am ecstatic about an 18 yo forward doing some decent thing and not looking out of place in the Bundesliga. I wish he played more minutes for my sake but actually like the way they are bringing him along. Twenty minutes gives them plenty of "tape" to review with him. Maybe he could absorb more, but keeping it short makes it easier for them to make him accountable for every play. I'd bet he continues to put in okay or better performances and earns more minutes sooner rather than later. Even if this is all he gets this season, he will still be able to improve significantly.
If you say so. But still. Keeper is looking for the over ball. They will never see one that gets under a jumping defender. Not sure it's the high % play on a ball that close in.
Joker in this sense in German is a sub (or super-sub perhaps), not a clown. Kind of a general term, not anything specific about the player.
Joker is the card (originally The Fool in the Tarot). Its meaning changes with the card game most popular in the culture using the term. In English, the joker in poker is a wild card that can take any value. So a joker is someone unpredictable, a bit crazy. In German, the Joker is the last stand card, the one you use to save yourself when all other alternatives don't work, in games like Euchre. In Spanish, the joker is the comodin, a card that is used to replace any other card in games like canasta, where it can replace any other card in plays, with the emphasis on that versatility. So a joker in English is the unpredictable, in German the expected savior, and in Spanish the Jack-of-all-trades.
Joker can also be a person, like the court jester. Hence the dancing guy on the joker playing card. At any rate, maybe in German soccer-talk is does mean "last sub", not just "sub". But I think it is just any sub (and not specific to a Pumuckl sub).
Hmmm. I only played in college so maybe things have changed since then. Somehow, looking at the knee to ball approach and whether chest was open or closed, I was able to figure out wether it was going high or low... but maybe college players were easier to read.