He doesn't really have a reputation at all, I at least don't know anybody who ever mentioned his name when talking about football. He sometimes writes a small, insignificant and thinly researched article here and there, but he's not well known even among the bigger football fans. In the beginning I only knew him from english media myself.
Bundesliga, DFB Cup, and other Bundesliga business 2014/2015
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He doesn't really have a reputation at all, I at least don't know anybody who ever mentioned his name when talking about football. He sometimes writes a small, insignificant and thinly researched article here and there, but he's not well known even among the bigger football fans. In the beginning I only knew him from english media myself.
Unless the opponent makes major mistakes, you usually win these kind of cup games with individual scenes or set pieces. Reus is by quite some distance our best player in both regards. Look how much we got accomplished so far with trying to play combination football and in the end resort to long passing. They don´t play that way because they like to, but because the pitch makes ground passing way too inconsistent. We take this competition seriously. It is our last remaining (realistic) title change and a possible ticket to Europe.
No expert really stands out positively in my book. On here the most knowledgable quality poster about German football is porbably Balu, especially if you take historic things into account.
I've never seen those white jerseys before and they still confuse me. I keep thinking something's weird and who's that Dortmund player, never seen him before hmmm,.... before realising what a dumb feck I am.
Maybe the players feel the same.
Maybe the players feel the same.
Ah alright. But the thing is while Dresden might be a lower league team they aren't exactly cannon fodder and the cup is probably one of the only trophies that Dortmund has a real shot at this season so I can understand why Klopp plays his first eleven in this game. Given their still insecure position in the league they also needed their best team on the field and especially against Schalke. While I share your opinion that Klopp generally rotates too little, basically only if injuries force him to, right now really wasn't the time to rest players or take them out of harms way I'm afraid.
Ramos...
Honigstein isn't that bad. He's not worse than all the other football journalists. I can't think of anyone who's actually really good anyway. Don't take him too seriously and a lot of what he writes is a decent read.
I can't watch the game and only saw the foul on Reus in a gif. Is it really another longterm injury? It didn't look dangerous at all.
I can't watch the game and only saw the foul on Reus in a gif. Is it really another longterm injury? It didn't look dangerous at all.
Latest news is that no diagnosis has been given yet. They expect test results tomorrow morning.
Preliminary diagnosis is that it's just a contusion, but it may be more. He's sitting on the bench and not in hospital, so it can't be that bad.
And Immobile scores a second, classic Dortmund counter.
And Immobile scores a second, classic Dortmund counter.
Soo,
positives of this match: advanced, solid performance by Langerak and Reus appearantly with no ankle injury and just a hit (mild contusion) on his knee
negatives: everything else...
Yep, a classic Dortmund performance in the Cup before the SF.
positives of this match: advanced, solid performance by Langerak and Reus appearantly with no ankle injury and just a hit (mild contusion) on his knee
negatives: everything else...
Yep, a classic Dortmund performance in the Cup before the SF.
Today five years ago Ballack had his last match for the national team - and Toni Kroos and Thomas Müller had their first. It was the day Maradona thought he was the ballboy...
Just saw the highlights of Dresden - Dortmund. What the feck is wrong with Hummels? Another misplaced pass that should have been a goal for the opponent. That has nothing to do with defending, it's just a lack of concentration.
He has done something like that so often since 2012, while I never remembered him making feck-ups like that before that. He really needs to get his head straight. It's worrying.
He has done something like that so often since 2012, while I never remembered him making feck-ups like that before that. He really needs to get his head straight. It's worrying.
Honigstein first came to my attention when I started reading the guardians sports section. He had written the occasional bit in German newspapers before that, but he was one among many.
What sets him apart from his fellow German writers is that he actually manages to be witty and most of the times a joy to read.
This sets him apart from most of his brethren at "kicker" or other papers.
He ain't the great revealer of football secrets some seem to expect, but I doubt that's his ambition in the first place.
I find it difficult to name outstanding figures among German football journalists.
The folks from "spielverlagerung" introduced in-depth tactical analysis on a level never seen outside a coaching class (and rarely inside one).
Thomas Kistner of the sz is asking questions few of his colleagues dare or bother to do, as only recently in the doping allegations against Freiburg and Stuttgart.
Köster and the folks from "11Freunde" manage to write the occasional brilliant background article every now and then.
The majority of the rest is rewriting news agency news and/or busy feeling cool about being in bed with a few so called important persons in the business.
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Yeah, that's a fair assessment.
Just tuned in. How is Schweinsteiger + Alonso doing?
Cmon i´m not expecting a Bas show every round but this game has been pretty dull. Dost waste of time
Good freekick Alaba
Alaba's freekicks are fantastic. Another excellent one.
We're playing a bit shit though, but that's not really a surprise, after all Schweini and Alonso are both on the pitch. When will Pep ever learn only to start one of them
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We're playing a bit shit though, but that's not really a surprise, after all Schweini and Alonso are both on the pitch. When will Pep ever learn only to start one of them
.Alaba's freekicks are fantastic. Another excellent one.
We're playing a bit shit though, but that's not really a surprise, after all Schweini and Alonso are both on the pitch. When will Pep ever learn only to start one of them
The problem isn't even Schweinsteiger AND Alonso, the problem ist just Alonso at the moment, he is just so extremely static and doesn't offer anything in a game like today. We also tend to play too much over the left wing and Ribery is overdoing his dribbling attempts instead of doing the simple things. That's why Braunschweig doesn't even need to defend players like Robben or Götze because we don't get the ball to them, EVERYTHING goes to the left wing.
Ribery should have gotten a red in minute 4 or 5.
Decided on this one since i thought the Villareal Barcelonatie was done but the quality of the football has been dire: Looked like a pen for Bayern now
I struggle to see any reason why Alonso should be on the pitch at the moment. He offers NOTHING.
It´s to make the game more even mate. Guardiola doesn´t like easy wins
For what? Didn't see the first 20 minutes.
Finally a proper good ol' Götze
This is more like it Goetze!
Lovely goal. 2-0 Götze
Ah god this speaker...loved everything about the allianz arena except the stupid speaker (even with 7 goals he was like a duracell bunny)
Kicked the opponent after he was fouled.
God, Alonso is half asleep...
Wth with Neuer´s passing? Braunschweig intimidating him?
This Alonso hating gets really annoying here.
Braunschweig is a very tough team and their midfielders can run, if some have missed that.
What did this Alonso did to some here?
Why not just be happy about his manly ginger beard? why all this negative crap.
That never helped anyone.
Braunschweig is a very tough team and their midfielders can run, if some have missed that.
What did this Alonso did to some here?
Why not just be happy about his manly ginger beard? why all this negative crap.
That never helped anyone.
1. He provides almost nothing since at least december that would augment our play.
2. My comment about him being half asleep came right after he just refused to handle a ball and a Braunschweig player could just pick it up right at the edge of the Bayern box with Neuer not being in goal after passing the ball before. Against a stronger attacking line, this is suicide. Alonso is quickly turning into a defensive liability (see the game against Donezk...)
He was fantastic at the start of his tenure here but he seems to have lost another step.
Oh i wasn´t serious mate, that was just my Anchan impersonation, Just replaced Leverkusen with Alonso
Oh i wasn´t serious mate, that was just my Anchan impersonation, Just replaced Leverkusen with Alonso
damn you
That named sounded familiar and I just remembered that I bookmarked one of their articles about Guardiola a few weeks ago but never finished reading it because it was so in depth.
Honigstein is not bad, at least not too bad. I've been listening to a couple of podcasts where he showed up, and have to admit that he knows a bit. Obviously he has to create some noise in the U.K. for the Bundesliga with his articles. And that "noise" is sometimes a bit over the top. But in general he is O.K. There are way worse guys around.
Bayern's line-up today:
Neuer, Boateng, Dante, Badstuber, Rafinha, Alonso, Alaba, Bernat, Robben, Müller, Götze
Alonso the undroppable...
Neuer, Boateng, Dante, Badstuber, Rafinha, Alonso, Alaba, Bernat, Robben, Müller, Götze
Alonso the undroppable...
It makes sense today though, he's suspended for the game on Wednesday against Donetsk.
Great to see Goretzka on the bench.