They didn't have their Peter Stoeger lined up. Scrape by into CL spots by playing boring soccer. Taylor Rockwell of Total Soccer Show had an interesting idea: would David Wagner be interested in a half/quarter-season rescue mission?
Rose announced as manager for next year. ℹ️ Marco #Rose has opted to leave Gladbach at the end of the season and join Borussia Dortmund.#DieFohlen pic.twitter.com/sSDDU679gO— Gladbach (@borussia_en) February 15, 2021 This seems like a weird situation: why would Rose care about getting Gladbach to the CL spots now? If anything, he should try to help Dortmund qualify (if he can) so he can participate in the competition with them next year.
Reyna with a Kicker rating of 5.0 (1 best, 6 worst) puts him tied with Hoppe and Sarge for highest rated yank (US developed) last weekend! (Adams didn’t play enough for rating).
The nightmare run on YA continues. This is a defensive cm group for Dortmund, w/out actually being good defensively. Dahoud kinda sucks. Starting Bellingham after all this time benched is a risk. Could pay off I suppose. Reus is a winger, and one who needs to drop deep, on the road? If it's a 442 w/ him as the ss it would work better. This is dicey for the interim manager. We'll see. But either way, the offseason can't come soon enough, so they can get a real skipper.
This is the reason why I hate kicker. Not way Gio was a 5 in his last outing. What a joke. Bellingham was terrible and he gets the start again? Whatever. But Kicker... hates Yanks. It is obvious.
I mean, let’s be real. It’s been a pretty poor run of late for many YAs. Sky ain’t falling, but we’re certainly not seeing a good trend.
I stand corrected. This setup is really working on the counter for Dortmund. 3-1 so far. Yes, that was the obvious point I was making. It's a huge downturn for YA's the last couple weeks. Didn't say it expressly about Reyna's benching. It's a small component.
Looks like he won't even get a sub appearance. I guess I was watching a different game last weekend. But I am over it. Wes played great for Juventus even though they were down 2-0 and he was subbed out. Jude was the worst player on the pitch in BVBs last game yet he gets the full 90. GO figure.
It's relative to recent standard. And there have been a lot of meh performances + benchings across the YA landscape. It's a huge stock down. But it'll go back up. That's the way the fb stock market works. No need to be defensive about the observation we're in a dip.
Could it be that he's been looking lethargic for weeks, or months? Could it be that this was a chance to get some other guys some time (Hazard also very close to being back) and rest others who have a lot of miles in his legs? Based on what a world beater he looked last year and how mediocre he's looked this year, whatever it takes to get him back to the former level is fine by me.
But he has looked better in the last two games... I was shocked they removed him in the loss last weekend and kept Jude on even though he kept giving the ball away. I just can't get my head around that 5 Kicker rating for his last outing. It literally doesn't make any sense. At any rate, his dip in form started when Delaney called him out for not marking his guy on the set piece against Union.
Reyna got a 5.5 kicker rating for his bench CL performance against Sevilla. Apparently he didn’t keep Brandt’s spot warm enough! But seriously, Haaland got the rare Kicker 1.0. He did have an amazing game.
He needs to make an impact from the bench over the next few matches and all will be ok. Maybe I’ll eat my words but I think it’s safe to say he won’t be starting after the performance by others yesterday.
I pine for the glorious days of yore when all the Americans on CL teams were lighting it up regularly...