Actually Southampton was one of the best managed club in England up until last year or so, when they decided to give Mark Hughes the job. They still have one of the best academies in England. If only they could properly spend all the money that Liverpool gave them.Hasenhüttl is off to Southampton. That's a real surprise that, but I suppose they all want a job in the money league.
Wait until Nagelsmann worked his magic on him. Serge Gnabry was the worst kind of pace merchant before he went to Hoffenheim, nowadays I am really excited whenever he pops up in a team sheet for the NT. Usually there is always some kind of alignment between the styles of Germany and the NT and I would not rule it out that Werner and Gnabry make up 2/3 of the strike force at both Bayern and Germany for the next ten years.
Shocking call from a terrible ref.That was absolutely incredible, how the hell can a ref call that penalty in a game like this while looking at several replays?
He should never referee a game in the top division again, there are no excuses with VAR.
Complete domination now, should be 3-1. It doesn't even seem like a derby, Schalke have been terrible
So that's 2 losses in a row for Frankfurt and down to 5th position.
Hertha fan here. He's probably been the team's best player this season. We haven't lost a match with him on the pitch and even during the few matches he played you can tell he is still improving.How well did Marko Grujic actually play? His manager's praise seemed too OTT.
Hertha fan here. He's probably been the team's best player this season. We haven't lost a match with him on the pitch and even during the few matches he played you can tell he is still improving.
That said he still has major screw ups in him. In 6 matches (not counting the Nürnberg one where he only played 2 mins) he caused one pen against Schalke which they luckily missed, cost the team against Hoffenheim where a horrible pass led directly to the 0:1 and yesterday he should have caused another penalty but the ref somehow missed it. 3 fatal errors in 6 matches is bad.
If the can turn that off and other than that keep his current level he'll easily be the best midfielder (or even player in general) in the league not playing at Bayern or Dortmund.
Steinhaus clearly wanted Hertha to win. It’s a big conspiracy against the powerhouse Frankfurt. They are all in on it!!11!
-When asked about Berlin vs Frankfurt he says that the ref Daniel Schlager had a clear view on the incident and diagnosed both players pulling at each other, so he decided to let play go on after Jovic went down.
VAR Steinhaus apparently reviewed the footage but because she couldn't find a high enough discrepancy between Schlager's perception of the incident to rule it a clear enough mistake to cross the VAR threshold, even though replays showed good arguments for a penalty.
-He also stresses how important the ref's perception of an incident is, meaning if the referee clearly missed it VAR has a low threshold and the more and clearer he saw the incident the higher the threshold gets.
https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/drees-ein-ueberraschend-unterschiedliches-leistungsbild-196749/
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Actually really don't think the scene in the Hertha-Frankfurt game was that clear cut of a pen. Sure, a lot of times that one is given but I feel like in open play it did not really look like a stonewall pen, maybe the slowmo alters the perception a bit here. At least it is in my opinion altogether unnecessary to take your tinfoil hats out and look for a conspiracy here. I am pretty sure no one is trying to systematically hold Frankfurt back.
Referees are human. They have hidden biases and may even support some clubs. Some referees are not allowed to take charge of matches involving certain clubs (usually from their home town). This is normal. We don't have robots officiating . . yet.
However they also have negative biases towards clubs also. Biases, which, they may not even possibly be aware of.
This is never taken into account. It is not a question of conspiracy theory but just human nature.
I'm sure most supporters have a referee which they dread. Maybe not from Dortmund or Bayern as they predominantly dominate matches but other clubs this is not the case.
For me personally I rarely watch an Eintracht match with Felix Brych in charge.
I still think you are reading a bit much into this. As far as I know the VAR is not alone in his or her room so I think it should still be pretty hard to disadvantage a club that you are "biased against". Maybe it does not feel like it to you but to allege that a ref is biased or purposely disadvantaging a certain club is a quite strong accusation. I think if this was in the least suspected of a ref there would be investigations. I have honestly never felt like any ref was doing this and I think if you have no proper proof (you don't in my opinion) I would not voice these thoughts.
The only ref I can recall that I really did not want to officiate any Dortmund games anymore was Wolfgang Stark. This was down to him being pretty shit and having some unbelievably terrible decisions (Schmelzers clearance on the line comes to mind, resulted in a red and penalty to Wolfsburg even though his hand was nowhere near the ball) and I think he was at least for a while not assigned any Dortmund games after that. But while I could not stand the guy, his refereeing mistakes combined with his body language, I would never accuse him of doing that on purpose.
In all honesty I did think of Wolfgang Stark and THAT Schmelzer incident in the post you responded to. Personally I always felt Stark was one of the good referees.
Of course you're right. To accuse a referee of bias is a very serious accusation and one which is next to impossible to prove. But let us bear in mind that the Bundesliga is the only major league in Europe where a referee was relatively recently jailed for match fixing and it was his colleagues, to their credit, who shipped him in.
On the match in Berlin there are many Eintracht fans linking Kevin Trapp's comments about last week's match referee against Wolfsburg with a possible reason for this week's decision going against Eintracht from not one but two match officials. . . . Perhaps Bundesliga referees are a close knit family (I suspect they are) and an attack on one is an attack on all. . . . "you won't attack us without consequences".
For me personally I rarely watch an Eintracht match with Felix Brych in charge.
I really like the look of Alcacer, he's a very classy forward. Akanji is excellent, he'd be a great option to look at if we can't get Koulibaly or Skriniar.
I didn't mean to sound disrespectful, I just meant that we've been heavily linked with those two but not Akanji, it was nothing to do with him being easier to sign or anything like that.What makes you think that Akanji would be in any way or form easier to sign than the other two? He is our most important defender and already became 3rd captain despite only being at the club since January. You don´t look at him as some kind of back up option. You make him your prime target and throw so much money at us for the very slim chance that Akanji might force a deal so that our officials had to consider any kind of deal. We would fight tooth and nail or him and likely make him the most expensive defender in history.
I didn't mean to sound disrespectful, I just meant that we've been heavily linked with those two but not Akanji, it was nothing to do with him being easier to sign or anything like that.
