International break is over. Reus came back with knee problems, but Rose assures he can play. I suspect Leverkusen will win, what with our defensive issues.
If we cannot contain Diaby, we'll get slaughtered. A few players came back with knocks from the NT games. But if we show a convincing performance against such a team, I think it'd be a pretty good sign.
Kobel Meunier Pongracic Akanji Guerreiro Witsel Bellingham Dahoud Brandt Haaland Reus I'm not too optimistic, especially the defense makes me worry.
Leverkusen takes the lead after another bad giveaway in our buildup. We miss to equalize a few minutes later in an even better scoring opportunity.
I missed the start. Who gave the ball away? This is going to be a long season. We just aren't good enough
It was on our left side, I think either Guerreiro or Dahoud under pressure from Leverkusen. But then Wirtz just walks without any opposition to the box and can score. So it wasn't just one person at fault. And now Haaland scores followed by Bellingham to turn the game around. What I've noticed in a couple situations in this game, we want to make the game fast in attack and that looks good. Dahoud isn't in the game yet but Brandt is a good fit despite his earlier bad miss.
And now VAR takes the goal back because of a foul in the development of the goal. A decision we would have probably wanted if that happens on the other side. It's just that there is no consistency whatsoever with VAR.
Exactly, makes me remember a certain Bayern goal that VAR did not take back... I never seen a goal against us be overturned this way. It's frustrating. The call was right though, just not detected by the ref way before the goal is scored.
Leverkusen takes the lead again. We make it so easy for the opponent to score. Just a long ball and that's it.
And moments later we are down again just before half time... Loving this team is an act of contrition...
Rose was another mistake. No issues we address in the off season, we just continue where we left off with Favre, same mistakes over and over again, no learning...
Halftime. Just not good enough in our approach regarding defense for top football. If you give up goals like this, you won't even reach the CL spots. Witsel doesn't work for me. Pull Dahoud back again but the alternatives on the bench are too offensive. unless we change the system to a 2 man midfield.
So far we have been giving up 2 goals per game. That puts us just above the 2 relegations teams in terms of goal allowed. That is a very bad trend that leads to nowhere good...
Brandt with a great goal. I thought the chance was already gone due to bad ball control but after th replay, it was actually well done.
And here we go again, we can't defend shit. Leverkusen 3:2. Only two teams have conceded more goals at this point.
And Belligham is scared of the ball in front of the box, turns his back to the Diaby of all player who sidestep him to score. We are down again, our defensive woes is getting worse. ** Belligham just took a big dive in my book. If you are too coward to stand in front of a shot you have no place on the field... I'm ok with making mistake but lack of effort or cowardice really rubs the wrong me...
I think Bellingham just wanted to block the shot and it's not uncommon to turn around. Diaby completely missed his shot and that worked out in his favor.
Yeah but if this team can't thrive when 1 defender is missing what does it say about the team. Hummels is good but he's old and slow now. He should be fighting for a spot in a 'good' team not be the best player on defense. We have allowed 9 goals in 4 game so far that is more than 2 per game!!! This season will go nowhere at this rate... That is almost 1/4 of all the goals we allowed last season (41) and we have yet to meet a good team!!