Das Reboot and the Road to UEFA Nations League & EC2020

Funny that people think possession football is modern football.

Yes and no. Things changed a lot in the last couple of years, and possession teams are not the team that always win

You need pressing, movement, skill, discipline and penetration in possession football. if you dont have all these elements, dont play high line and possession.

Only Man City can play possession football nowadays, or maybe Napoli.

Its an era with advanced technology and statistics, scouting system is also different than 10 years ago.

The expectancy of a system or a tactics no longer last as long.

Spain and Germany both had the same issue @Rosebud

 

The ultra high line also involves certain degree of arrogance.

I dont think Loew can change this philosophy, and his loyalty to certain players and poor judgement to some.......kinda pissed me off (they needed Lars Bender, Sane and Wagner)

The false 9 experiment also took years until he let go. His philosophy also changed the training methods in GErmany and we are now producing false 9s , youth NTs are playing false 9s too

Unless Loew admits his problem , i dont want him back

 

According to bild, after thinking it over he's decided to honour his contract, lol this is ridiculous, like u said I personally think this man is tactically inept, we won the .last world cup with a influx of a golden generation, nothing to do with his astute tactics

 

My team post WC will be:

GK) ter Stegen, Leno, Fahrmann

RB) Kimmich, Weiser, Klostermann

CB) Sule, Boateng, Rudiger, Tah, Hummels, Vogt, Kehrer

LB) Philipp Max, Plattenhardt, Halstenberg

DM/CM) Kroos,Emre Can, Weigl, Rudy, Gundogan

RW) Gnabry, Brandt, Marius Wolf

AM) Goretzka, Havertz

LM) Leroy Sane, Reus

CF) Fullkrug, Timo Werner, Selke, Petersen, Ginczek, Mark Uth

 

Playing possession based high line defence is extremely risky nowadays with all the technology and information around, our ultra slow backline, lol our invisible midfielder s who were meant to track back, and more worrying our toothless attack who can't dribble past packed and organized defences

 

The backline isn't ultra-slow, but no backline in the world would look good with these tactics.

The midfield was severely lacking mobility and tackling and offered no protection, the full backs pushed too high, didn't get back quickly enough and the build up was stagnant,slow and predictable involved too many sideways passes and too many players pushed up the pitch which led to the inevitable easy interceptions/counters.

All in all it was a total cluster******** and one no decent coach should be overseeing, it was obvious to most non-experts that it was destined to fail and it made a team which should have been strong contenders a sitting duck and led to the worst and most embarrassing WC in Germany's history. Totally unacceptable, any other country would have fired Löw's ass for that performance. How can anyone at the DFB say he should remain after this?

 

According to bild, he's decided to stay on

 

A football coach, is just like a movie director in this regard. You are as good as your last film/ tournament.
There is disporportionate weightage to latest performance as that is what is most 'fresh' in peoples memories when you are the cynosure of all eyes.

 

It shouldn't be up to him to decide.

 

Yes I agree totally, it's every where, sky sports Germany, talksport radio station, he's decided he's the man to rebuild lol

 

LOW Is staying on for another 4 years... So reboot with old Operating system.

 

Aghhhhhh Its like wearing your old clothes you don't ant to wear anymore... grrrrrrrr

 

Man, what a disappointment! We all knew the DFB wouldn't have the balls to fire him but I was hoping that Jogi would at least have the integrity to step aside himself.

 

I think we still need a mix of some of the "old guard" for experience and leadership. This includes Neuer, Boateng and Kroos. Kimmish, Gundogan and Reus should also stay.

If we start from scratch we are going to terrible for a long time because the BL is not competitive and BL are not competitive in Europe...

 

I've been complaining about the lack of dribblers and players willing to take on other players for years. Hopefully Sane, Gnabry, Werner and Brandt. In addition, we need players, at all positions, that are comfortable with the ball.

Our approach of moving the ball is passing. What we are lacking are players with the skill that can have the ball at their feet that are able to move with the ball. Watching this WC, the NT players seemed very uncomfortable having the ball and could not wait to get rid of it and the player receiving the pass already thinking how they can gid rid of it... Besides Ozil, which players have strong ball handling skills?

 

Excerpts from a Kicker print story I haven't read in full about all the aspects that destroyed the team spirit:
- "Conflicts between Confed Cup and World Cup winners" (dumb, dumb, dumb...Seriously, how dumb, immature and unprofessional can you be? Where is the sense of responsibility and pride to participate in such an event?)
- "Conflicts between Hummels and Khedira." My guess: Probably just two different personalities with different ideas clashing which doesn't always have to be bad.
- "Kroos is seen as controversial within the team as someone who (rightfully imo) criticized what went wrong in previous games but who himself wasn't disciplined enough, especially regarding his defensive duties/tracking back."
Could be a reason why he considers retirement which I hope he won't do. Basically, he saw the disaster happen months in advance and didn't think the problems would just magically disappear. Yes, he's slow but when I see player types like Vidal or Carvalho as examples, it feels we are halfway there in tackling the major problems in midfield that affected both the offense and defense.

 

Well I get pissed as well when a fricking defensive midfielder don’t bother to track back, so I get the frustration

Idk whether Jogi’s even told Kroos to track back? Wouldn’t surprise me if he hasn’t because it’s Toni