True, agree he is still a top class defender, when fit. He has lost a lot physically so you can see Kovac not applying an extremely high line with him and Hummels. Interesting to see what Loew goes for v France and Peru in the upcoming matches.
I know that Löw will not do it - but there was a match against Hannover last season in which Süle played the 6 and he was really great in that. Would be great cover for Kroos and maybe allow to play Müller centrally on an 8 with Kroos and behind the striker. Löw should have seen enough matches the recent 2 or 3 weeks with Müller on the right 8 and some assists and goals of him in that position... (now that Özil is gone...). Today again a preassist, an assist and a goal.
Yea Muller's form has been rediscovered since he has moved to a central role behind Lewandowski but competition Bayern play against vs what Germany will is very different. I don't think Sule can survive under the pressure of France's midfield. If Sule and Muller play in midfield then it would put all the pressure off play making on Kroos. If France double team Kroos with pressure, then there isn't anyone else who can control possession, Bayern don't face that same pressure in the BL because teams tend to sit off.
Goretzka is not a passer either. Takes part less on the passing at Bayern until now than Müller does. And does not work more defensively. That is not a solution either. Would put Kroos far more in jeopardy than what I proposed. Süle in that match I talked about had 98 passes Thiago 103)
Hummels toda again with a hail mary which could have been a pen if the ref has a different angle. That guy is an accident waiting to happen and if such a thing is even possible, he gets slower every year.
It was a great tackle, if the referee gave it it would've been reversed through VAR. Can't criticize him for a great tackle (PS: don't bring the Maldini quote).
Do you think Sule would be able to hold possession better under pressure or Sule? I certainly think Goretzka would. Again, Bayern play under hardly any pressing from opposition in the BL so it easy for their midfielders to retain possession, I don't think the same will be the case when we play France. France may press Sule and force him into errors, the only way I could see it working is if Germany adopt a counter-attacking playing style whereby they are the ones sitting deep.
Yes i do. The art of defending is to play in a way you don't *need* that kind of tackle.
His long passes seldom reach their recipient. And he has a lot headers after set-pieces but rarely scores. And he always had some shaky scenes in defense - even during that time. But during the time in Dortmund he usually scored a goal then and nobody cared...
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Well, he won the World Cup, playing a major role in the win and has done well for Bayern. It's just the UCL which has eluded him and you can't really blame him because Bayern, in all the years he has been there, only once where they knocked out by a team did not eventually win the tournament. Bayern have been a bit unlucky in a couple of those losses, most notably last year, so I don't think he has been particularly poor. I think it's just the lack of success at the international/intercontinental level has made it seem Boateng and Hummels haven't reached a very high peak.
It’s such a satisfying goal.
Fifa goal
Stuttgart didn't seem interested in doing something about it, no pressure on our players anywhere.No I don't judge Hummels by his title haul in the last few years. Just in terms of pure defending, I think he has regressed a bit and I don't know why. He looks weaker in duels with very physical forwards and he looks to lack that last bit of perfect concentration. Hummels under Klopp had more defending to do and excelled at it, especially when defending in the box. He was also simply majestic in the 2014 World Cup and the difference to his 2018 performance was stark, even if the perception may be skewed for some people because he scored the header vs France and he didn't score the one vs South Korea.
Hummels was a beast in all duels vs Real for example and one of the main reasons that CR was invisible in the last two games against us.
Ya, that's a nice statement on paper but not always possible, not to mention in that scene Hummels tackles the player because noone else did stop him before. That's a thing a lot of people always ignore, Hummels is the kind of defender who fixes many defensive errors by his team mates because he doesn't shy away from such situations. It is sometimes the opposite with Boateng who is too cautious to commit (see the goal of Hoffenheim last week).
Yeah true that, I remember being impressed by him in those clashes. Ronaldo was in ridiculous form before that, scoring in every CL game plus something like 3 hattricks in the league after the turn of the year.
They did not look any good last year except in defense...
Why? I don't think we ever had 4 injured keepers one time.Bremen and their goalkeepers is a amazing story since a few years
9 at the same time, 10 in total. Haven't been this excited about a Hertha side since the Favre days.
Sadly not next week. It's international break. I'll be at the game though, so I'm looking forward to it.
Surprised to see Leverkusen lose both matches but Schalke is not surprising at all. They are horribly run, after losing two important players they have done sod all to improve their squad (Uth is the only decent singing). Sane in defense is also calamitous, don't know why anyone would've thought of buying him.They did not look any good last year except in defense...
Next week no. 2 plays against no. 3 - Hertha against Wolfsburg.
Schalke plays in Gladbach the next match and against Bayern the week after...
I understand your disappointment, but can't follow your analysis. RBL actually has a very good long term strategy, but a shit short term future. Shit transfer window, Rangnick in 2 jobs, long Europa League season ahead with a small squad. In the long term they get Nagelsmann, who is literally turning shit into gold. He makes Adam Szalai look like prime Miro Klose. They will also make a shit tonne of money when they inevitably cash in on their young stars like Werner, Upamecano etc.
I agree with RBL's long term strategy and getting Nagelsmann was a brilliant move. But wasting a full year in which they take part in the CL by standing still / moving backwards is a complete disaster. If they got it right for this season, they might have had a chance to keep their young stars.
I disagree here. If Herrlich can't get it right, they're where they've been for ages now. Leverkusen didn't strengthen the team. If they drop out of the CL places, they'll lose at least some of their players, lose the CL money for next season, have to rebuild and are again worse off, because they can't attract similar quality.Leverkusen is pretty much the same, their short term game is shit because Herrlich can't seem to get it right and Dragovic is still stinking out the place in central defense. Besides that, they managed to sign their 4 biggest talents on long term contracts (Brandt, Tah, Bailey, Havertz) and will also make a shit tonne of money on them. Except if Bayern agrees a huge free agent contract 2 years in advance to sign them on a free
Fully agree with this, but unless German clubs start using English as their main language, we're at a massive disadvantage when it comes to signing foreign coaches from these countries and there's no easy way around it. And if foreign players and coaches don't learn German, they most likely won't stick around longterm anyway.
The other part of the story is that your club have signed ten goalkeepers in the last five seasons.
Yea, feel a similar sense of disappointment looking at Dortmund, Leverkusen, Leipzig and Schalke. There is just zero quality investment coming into the league from foreign lands. Either average players are being picked up or the league is exchanging players amongst each other, I can't remember a single transfer this season that has gotten me excited (maybe only Goretzka to Bayern).
They waste a year and they can afford that. It is not like their players are 29 and soon to be over the hill. Werner already said he will stay beyond 2019 because he wants to work with Nagelsmann. The other guys like Upamecano are so young that they can stay 3 more years and move when they are 22.
And? Still don't understand the point.
Quite often, he relies on his tackles to recover from a situation caused by his own positioning or from him misjudging the situation before, though that may be a calculated risk, maybe that's the price to pay when playing with two fullbacks who are more wingers and a midfield less defensive-minded than the original van Bommel/Martinez/Schweisteiger-time, but i see that from him in the Nationalmannschaft as well.
Those two statements are interesting because his tendency to "fix other defenders errors" is one of the qualms i have about him. What i often saw him doing was, for me, an expression of mistrust in his fellow teammates abilites, that "ah stay away, i'll do it myself proper" attitude. That's the opposite of "making fellow teammembers better". See his body language at several post-Klopp BVB matches. Win the ball, run forward 20m, play a genius pass your teammate is too stupid to anticipate, counterattack follows, Mr. Hummels can't be bothered to even backtrack.
