Bundesliga 2017/18

Tolisso scores, Müller (subbed on for a disappointing James) with the assist.
 
Muller seven minutes on, assists goal, goes to sideline, lays down for a massage, and goes off. Job done.
 
The disproportion between Coman's ability to dribble players at will and his absolute inability to find a teammate with the ensuing cross at least once in about 20 attempts is doing my fecking head in
 
Great counter attack, but Lewandowski's shot is deflected for a corner. Hummels closely misses Robben's ball.
 
ffs we need to convert one of those chances soon

don't want the HSV clowns to get a 90th minute fluke equlizer
 
Lewandowski isn't fully up to speed at the moment, neither physically nor mentally
 
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Rinti - Meat for connoisseurs - Rinti - also for Cando

(Cando is Heynckes dog that barked twice to agree with the trainer job, that did not eat for two days when Heynckes left, that gets send video and speaking messages and "sents" them back...) :cool:
 
Cristiano Lell said:
The disproportion between Coman's ability to dribble players at will and his absolute inability to find a teammate with the ensuing cross at least once in about 20 attempts is doing my fecking head in
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While I agreed to this a hundred times before I have to disagree today. He had two or three crosses that should have resulted in goals. In my opinion he is improving and getting a lot of game time does wonders for him.
But yeah, it’s still frustrating 2/3 of the time.
 
Acrobat7 said:
While I agreed to this a hundred times before I have to disagree today. He had two or three crosses that should have resulted in goals. In my opinion he is improving and getting a lot of game time does wonders for him.
But yeah, it’s still frustrating 2/3 of the time.
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You see the improvements he made in the last 3 matches. Heynckes said that they talk a lot with him (probably exercise, too) how he should act - and getting more match time with the same players and the same position helps him, too. He had 3 key passes today, an assist Wednesday and a goal and an assist last weekend.

If he goes on like this we really have one replacement for Robbery. But that is what we already thought before Ancelotti came in. Just tells you how much this kids need a coach to help and develop them - and that they need match time.
 
Acrobat7 said:
While I agreed to this a hundred times before I have to disagree today. He had two or three crosses that should have resulted in goals. In my opinion he is improving and getting a lot of game time does wonders for him.
But yeah, it’s still frustrating 2/3 of the time.
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Yeah, I agree with both of you. On one hand he's looking electric these past few weeks after more than a year of looking uninspired most of the time, but his end product is still lacking.
Still, he took them apart yesterday. He'd have every right to be furious with the others for failing to convert anything.

I was very critical of him these last months but he'll turn it around if he keeps going and grabs some assists and goals in the next weeks.
 
Goalless draw in the bottom duel between Bremen and Köln, another draw (1-1) between Hertha and Freiburg.

Hoffenheim in the lead against Wolfsburg by a pen, after Wolfsburg missed one in the first half.
 
Hoffenheim concede in injury time. Three draws and only four goals in today's three fixtures.

edit: just read that Müller may have torn a muscle and might miss over a month. :-/
 
For Germans in the know: I'm just curious about the way 1. FC Köln have been patient with Stöger, looking at how trigger-happy they've normally been. Is he under immediate pressure, or are they building something long-term (which might even include a possible return to 2. Bundesliga)?
 
Hansa said:
For Germans in the know: I'm just curious about the way 1. FC Köln have been patient with Stöger, looking at how trigger-happy they've normally been. Is he under immediate pressure, or are they building something long-term (which might even include a possible return to 2. Bundesliga)?
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He has done really well in Cologne so far so I think they'd like him to stay long term. Also, their results are way worse than their performance in most games would make you think. The football is decent.
 
So, Köln have sacked their manager. Note: german use of the word manager, i.e. Jörg Schmadtke, not the coach, Peter Stöger.
Apparently the board holds him responsible for the current situation, because his transfers have flopped.
 
GhastlyHun said:
So, Köln have sacked their manager. Note: german use of the word manager, i.e. Jörg Schmadtke, not the coach, Peter Stöger.
Apparently the board holds him responsible for the current situation, because his transfers have flopped.
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WHAT? That's absolutely crazy
 
Other reports I'm reading seem to imply that Schmadtke would not sack Stöger and therefore has been let go. Stöger may very well follow suit.
 
...and when you started to think that Köln starts to be a well led club...
 
PedroMendez said:
I always was a huge schmadtke fan, but he really messed up. Not sure if sacking him is the best responds, but he can hardly blame anyone but himself.
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He messed up? He is the reason, Cologne reached the Europe League last season. No one expected that. Mere, Horn, Handwerker are young players and good players for the future.

The only negative thing is the Modeste replacement. Fantastic deal to get around 30Mio for Modeste, but you can't invest 17 of them in Cordoba. He showed nothing so far in the Bundesliga, he isn't a goal scoring machine.

But surely you can expect from a team, that they will score more than 1 goal after 9 games. Even without a good replacement. Most of the team is very young, it's nearly (only Modeste) the same team like last season. Unlucky injuries from Hector and Risse.
 
Messed up is maybe too strong of a word. I think last year's results didn't fully reflect their performances. Good at the back, well organised but fairly poor going forward. I don't think that they have many top talents, but i don't know Mere or Handwerker. Overall i am not overly impressed by their squad and their development. Modeste saved the team many many times with his goals and now they predictably miss him.

Just to clarify: fairly recently
(about 2years ago) I said, that schmadte is one of the very best managers in the league. I really rated him. Now looking at Kölns squad, i think he deserves a fair amount of criticism.
 
Schmadtke is definitely the first one to blame. When you have a squad full of people who score maybe 3-5 goals a season and one striker who scores literally half your goals and you replace him with a striker who scored 5 each in his last two season, then it's no surprise or bad luck when you can't score goals (not to this extend of course, but still). I know this is hindsight 20/20, but they should've at least bought an AM who provides a bit of a goal threat.

That being said he did very well to get them where they were last season and imho that's enough to give him the opportunity to learn from this summer's mistakes. It's not like sacking the DoF is going to have any short term effect either.
 
What you would expect as a replacement? You will not get one with the same amount of goals, Modeste had an fantastic season. But could he repeat it? No one is sure. Then everyone would say: Schmadtke, why you haven't sold him for 30Mio to China?

I think Cordoba was the most similar striker to Modeste in their search. Holding the ball, strong, physical. Cologne wanted Uth, Hoffenheim haven't sold him.
Its hard for Cologne: You can buy a striker from a worse league with a good goal rate or a striker from a better league, who wants to join you with a worse goal rate.

They have 1(!) goal at the moment. For real, after 9 games you could play without striker and you should have more than 1 goal. Corners, freekicks..

Hertha has problems with the league and Europe League too, Freiburg failed the qualification.
Financial it's good for them, but they can't afford the squad depth for that.
 
Cologne is leading 0:2 away against Hertha, in the cup they can score goals.
 
GhastlyHun said:
Bayern against RB Leipzig line-ups:

Ulreich
Kimmich , J. Boateng , Hummels , Alaba
Tolisso , Vidal -
Robben , Thiago , Coman
Lewandowski

Gulacsi
Bernardo , Orban , Upamecano , Halstenberg
Keita , Kampl
Sabitzer , Forsberg
Y. Poulsen , Augustin

Our midfield of Tolisso/Vidal will probably not feed our attack very well, but at least we have Kimmich to do that.
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I would have prefered if one out of Vidal or Tolisso was on the bench. Now we don't have a single player who can give an offensive impulse when subbed on.
 
schwalbe said:
I would have prefered if one out of Vidal or Tolisso was on the bench. Now we don't have a single player who can give an offensive impulse when subbed on.
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I'd say Rudy is on par with Tolisso for that, at least.
 
Piratesoup said:
He has done really well in Cologne so far so I think they'd like him to stay long term. Also, their results are way worse than their performance in most games would make you think. The football is decent.
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Thanks - judging by the recent developments I timed my question terribly/brilliantly. Unfortunately, The Bundesliga is nowhere to be found on Norwegian television after years of coverage on Eurosport, so it's a lot more difficult to keep up with things.
 
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