Borussia M'gladbach: Keller, Fukal, Svensson, Ze Antonio, Compper, El Fakiri, Jansen, Kluge, Flessers, Neuville, Rafael Subs: Melka, Strasser, Sonck, Bohme, Kahe, Broich, Levels
Seitenwahl says Keller was "world class" today They've posted the form marks already: Borussia's players, rating of performance Keller (10 of 10) / Fukal (2 of 10) / Svensson (5 of 10) / Zé António (4 of 10) / Compper (4 of 10) / El Fakiri (1 of 10) / Fleßers (5 of 10) / Kluge (2 of 10) / Rafael (2 of 10) / Neuville (3 of 10) / Jansen (3 of 10). Used Subs: Broich (3 of 10) / Strasser (4 of 10) / Sonck (came on too late to get assessed) Match standard: 3 of 10
From Seitenwahl: Keller sensational, Borussia horrible Substitute Thomas Broich was on the verge of handing Borussia what would have been a completely undeserved victory against Hertha BSC Berlin this afternoon, but a fatal positional error at a corner-kick five minutes later, altogether only three minutes from time, saw Kovac giving his Hertha side at least a draw in front of 50,000 widely frustrated spectators at Hennes-Weisweiler-Allee. Borussia gained an early lead through an own-goal, but since Bastürk had put the score back level, the team of Horst Köppel were just delighted to see Hertha wasting a string of brilliant chances and able to watch their team-mate Kasey Keller impress with a world-class display at the same time. Keller's performances denied the visitors four to six clear goals through very excellent shot-stopping. In a match in which Borussia's German U19-international Robert Flessers won his Bundesliga debut from the start, Borussia looked horrible most of the time and received a load of sincere booing and whistling when leaving the pitch after full-time. ***** Hey, since Keller is likely going to be the starter for the US this June, would you rather be hearing reports that he's completely off-form and playing like crap for the Foals?
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=196126&cc=5901 Soccernet has them as an 8-a-side event. Teams Borussia M'gladbach--- Hertha Berlin 26 Kasey Keller ------- Christian Fiedler 12 14 Hassan El Fakiri----- Sofian Chahed 28 18 Milan Fukal -------- Arne Friedrich 3 5 Marcell Jansen------- Kevin-Prince Boateng 27 2 Bo Svensson --------Gilberto 6 13 Santos Ze Antonio-- Nico Kovac 5 24 Peer Kluge --------- Marcelo Marcelinho 10 27 Oliver Neuville ----- Marko Pantelic 9
Kasey's interview http://www.borussia.de/de/borussia_news_detail,185,0,newsid-125087.html and another one: http://www.n24.de/sport/fussball/wm-2006/index.php/n2006041910092700002
I see he called out his own fans. Nice to see, you don't boo your own players when they are about to be subbed in.
makes me smile that our guys are so highly thought of abroad. To go along with captain dolo and beerholder, now we have keller. also, bmb has worn the band before as has reyna and hahnammen (at least i think so with hahnammen. its pretty impressive really
Keller gets a "2" from the Kicker and continues as the second best rated GK in Bundesliga. (2.78 average)
...and the "Man of the Match" title (again). He gets also a special honorable mention by Kicker for this story: -------------------- After the late equalizer Gladbach's keeper Kasey Keller became "handy" (he cahnged into "grabbing" mode): The 86-kilo hulk (? or just giant of a man?) gave his teammate Peer Kluge, weighing almost 40 pounds less than KK, such a push that Kluge flew away several metres, to the surprise of Keller too. "Without the goal net I would have stopped in neverland", Kluge said. Although he wasn't to blame for the goal, but innocent, Kluge showed - maybe cautiously? - no sign of bad feelings against KK: "Oh well, I was obvously just at the wrong place at the wrong time."