By the way, I should mention, I love the new visual identity. The club kept the best of the old and seamlessly brought in a new vocabulary. This kit is absolutely stellar.
I'm hoping we'll get on the domestic shelves with another good showing this campaign. There are 13 Bundesliga teams on the Fanatics website (including St. Pauli, by the way), so it won't be long.
If Assignon picks out a corner, it's 3-0. Great movement, though. I really liked what we saw from Bilal El Khannouss today. Bouanani too, at least in terms of his quality. We got two good young ones there.
Finally, a decent performance that didn't collapse at the end like last week. El Khannouss and Chema Andres got good minutes and both impressed.
Definitely. We saw this one out. I was starting to worry (just a little) about our sturdiness, but this was a really, really solid performance all around. Back on track.
Optional defending after a bad giveaway in our own end. Not the brightest start. Gawd, I hate giving away cheap goals like that.
That's more like it. A pen makes it 1-1, but we've been asserting ourselves more. We really do need to tighten up our defense in that central channel, though.
And we're level at the half. We responded well to the shock early goal and were much the better side over the last 30 minutes or so. We dominated over two stretches but just have one notch in the belt to show for it. Shove a little more and we should get this one.
Long stretch with us not doing much. I was starting to worry about this one. We looked like a side willing to settle for a draw on the road. Great run by Vagnoman. Perfectly timed.
That got nervy. We were fortunate Waldschmidt blew that last shot. He had forever to line it up. I liked our subs, though. We're deep. Once we're fully fit and healthy, we're going to make a run.
What's happening? I just now finished watching the Feyenoord match, which overlapped the first half of VfB's.
It was typical Heidenheim, sitting deep and conceding possession and looking to counter. You came in just as it was loosening up a little.