Pen to Schalke, Sokratis on Huntelaar. Looked a bit soft.
Huntelaar converts, 2-2
Keep the goals coming!
Huntelaar converts, 2-2
Keep the goals coming!
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That was a red wasn't it...
What a game
Sane has been incredibly poor (1st time I'm watching him). Mayer impressive.
Don't think he's been bad. Hit the post, scored the equalizer and has been involved a lot. Not the finished product, but he just turned 20. In general he has slowed down in the 2nd half of the season though.
Should have scored
Nice goal from Kagawa... Gundogan has been really good. He is perfect for us, sadly I can see him going to City with Pep.
5 more games to go and Bayern has 7 points more than Dortmund.
5 more games to go and Bayern has 7 points more than Dortmund.
Eight changes at the weekend and still unable to beat the 8th best team in the Premier league, a blip or something more serious for the Bundesliga?
Making the round through the threads to get some reactions?
Seems to be quite important to you.
To answer: Dortmund comprehensively outplayed them for 60 minutes and then they completely imploded. Weirder things have happened in football. If this proves one thing, it's that resting multiple players before important matches is bullshit and doesn't work.
Probably just the inability of Dortmund at this time of their development (they have a new coach and changed so much in their tactics this season) to control a match in that situation and too just get it over the time.
Knockout matches have a special character. You cannot always plan them. Some usual rules do not seem to count for them - even if experience and strength of the team for sure help.
Dortmund had a fine lead twice in the match but did not close the door. And that for sure helped Liverpool to come back into the match.
Is Liverpool a better team than Dortmund or do they have better players?
If Wolfsburg would have scored a goal yesterday and would have thrown out Real Madrid they for sure would not be a better team than Madrid...
Unbelievable how bad Gladbach are away from home
Feck me, that was one of the stupidest defeats I can remember. Super dominant performance, 2-0 up, half a dozen huge chances, and we feck it up with some of the silliest defensive mistakes I've seen all season. And everybody else was playing for us, too. Such a big chance wasted. 
FC Bayern: Neuer - Ribéry, Martínez, Lewandowski, Alonso, Bernat, Götze, Lahm (K), Müller, Alaba, Coman
Odd line-up considering it's a cup semifinal. Really didn't expect Götze to start. No Thiago and no Vidal is even more strange. Looks like our CM is Alonso + Götze, probably with Lahm cutting in instead of overlapping out wide?
I would have prefered to see a strong and normal line-up today and a bit more rotation on the weekend.
Odd line-up considering it's a cup semifinal. Really didn't expect Götze to start. No Thiago and no Vidal is even more strange. Looks like our CM is Alonso + Götze, probably with Lahm cutting in instead of overlapping out wide?
I would have prefered to see a strong and normal line-up today and a bit more rotation on the weekend.
I really, really, really wanted you to win this game and am still heartbroken your team fecked it up. You could have been 3 points ahead of Schalke and Gladbach! I do hope you can secure European football before the final match against Hertha. In any case though, Martin Schmidt is doing an awesome job. I hope he'll stay with Mainz for a long time.Feck me, that was one of the stupidest defeats I can remember. Super dominant performance, 2-0 up, half a dozen huge chances, and we feck it up with some of the silliest defensive mistakes I've seen all season. And everybody else was playing for us, too. Such a big chance wasted.
Sadly teams don´t get relegated based on effort, cause there can´t be a more spinless squad than Wolfsburg. They are basically rolling over every game. If you are in the relegation battle you throw a party, if you got them. Three free points.
Really liking the start Christian Pulisic has made. 17 year old American at Dortmund. First few starts recently and got a couple of goals now too. Great promise in this setup.
Heard his cousin is joining them too. He's a younger goalkeeper though.
Heard his cousin is joining them too. He's a younger goalkeeper though.
Finnbogason is keeping Augsburg in the league.
Dortmund without Aubameyang:
3-0 Hamburg (without Sokratis, Piszczek, Schmelzer, Weigl, Reus, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang),
3-0 Hertha (without Gündogan, Aubameyang, Sokratis),
3-0 Stuttgart (without Hummels, Gündogan, Aubameyang and Schmelzer).
It's getting a bit surreal (at least compared to the Klopp days) how Tuchel keeps getting these big wins despite rotating so much and the team having little left to play for, especially vs Hamburg with two 17 year olds in the starting lineup.
Tbh I don't know what to make of him. Obviously it's already a huge achievement to play as much as he does at his tender age on the other side he often seems very naive to me as in trying stuff that I imagine might work at youth level but won't at senior level, right now he seems to be relying mainly on his pace to me. Of course this is probably perfectly normal for someone his age, but I'd rather wait until he shows some more maturity in his performances before I cue the big hype.
3-0 Hamburg (without Sokratis, Piszczek, Schmelzer, Weigl, Reus, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang),
3-0 Hertha (without Gündogan, Aubameyang, Sokratis),
3-0 Stuttgart (without Hummels, Gündogan, Aubameyang and Schmelzer).
It's getting a bit surreal (at least compared to the Klopp days) how Tuchel keeps getting these big wins despite rotating so much and the team having little left to play for, especially vs Hamburg with two 17 year olds in the starting lineup.
Tbh I don't know what to make of him. Obviously it's already a huge achievement to play as much as he does at his tender age on the other side he often seems very naive to me as in trying stuff that I imagine might work at youth level but won't at senior level, right now he seems to be relying mainly on his pace to me. Of course this is probably perfectly normal for someone his age, but I'd rather wait until he shows some more maturity in his performances before I cue the big hype.
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Thanks to Pulisic, nobody has ever spent a second on wishing Dortmund should have held on to Januzaj and Hofmann. That's quite an achievement, although you're right that he's raw and is just getting used to the men's world.
Some comeback for Leverkusen, they were 0-2 at HT away at Schalke. Match was crucial for their aspirations of keeping that 3rd place.
They still have to play 4th (Hertha) and 5th (M'gladbach), though.
Good old Chicharito scored the winner!
They still have to play 4th (Hertha) and 5th (M'gladbach), though.
Good old Chicharito scored the winner!
Well, if you have that much control and acceleration, it is understandable. He knows his biggest strenghts and tries to use them as much as possible. As for his somewhat naive play style, I acutally hope he keeps up this bit of cheekiness and air of innocence for a while. Too many talents try to become streamlined players way too fast and lose this innocence way too early, making them simply inexperienced professional players. This cheeky play style can actually be a weapon if used correctly, because most defender have a hard time dealing with it as it is less predictable. Pulisic tries things and takes risks which is the right approach and working for him. He creates tons of unrest in defenses, makes space for his teammates and already scores goals by himself. Right now Tuchel does not only field Pulisic to learn the game, he fields him because his performances justify it. He is already more than just glimpses of potential, he has already good output.
His decision making is of course still raw, but you can already a clear progression in terms of pass/shot selection and movement. The way he played the build up for the 3:0 was excellent. He went past a defender and was actually in a decent positon to shoot or move inside the box. Instead of doing what the vast majority of youth players and even himself a couple of months ago would have done (go for it) he played a space opening pass to the unmarked Kagawa who played the cross which lead to the goal. Pulisic is doing right now what he has done the whole time he is in Dortmund: He learns and he does it extraordinarily quickly. Him being a full fletched member of the squad is already the third or fourth time his planned time shedule got advanced. The original plan for him was to still play U17 right now to get used to European football.
This all does not mean that there is a guarantuee that he fulfills his potential in the future. There are so many things that still can go wrong, but the hype will come (it is already there in the States) and it will be justified as this boy is undoubtly special and in terms of raw talent one of the biggest prospects in world football. Would he play in a smaller side or less competive league he would probably already gotten the Ödegaard treatment. Luckily for him he is in a better enviroment to develop and has a coach who got enough balls to put faith in him.
Five wins in a row for Leverkusen, five goals in a row for Brandt. Is there an outside chance of him being in the squad for the Euros?
ah @Sphaero how ive missed your posts
@FC Ronaldo
What's that supposed to tell me? A whole lot of words without really saying anything.
What's that supposed to tell me? A whole lot of words without really saying anything.
Coman best Bayern player today imo. What a gem he is.
Thank You Sandro Wagner you flaming pile of garbage. GARBAGE. The audacity to kick the penalty like that. I said to all my friends he´s gonna do something like that. I knew it. That after he said all footballer are underpaid over the weekend and making or missing makes a personal difference of millions for him. How Schuster can allow this piece of garbage living on one brain cell to take this penalty over guys like Gondorf, who came all the way from 3rd division and knew what this penalty meant. He would have destroyed the net. Unreal we gonna get relegated over one penalty kick.
Gladbach remains Pep's kryptonite in the Bundesliga. Another game against them that was an absolute chore to watch. The only reasons to be happy is that Coman continues to impress even though our offense was pretty much nonexistent, and that Boateng is back.
No he wanted to embarrass the goalie, arrogant three step run-up, body position very obvious and rolled it slowly into one corner, obviously the wrong one. Of course if he makes it his transfer fee is ten million, if he misses good chance it will be just 750k. Guess who´ll bank the difference. This penalty should have been taken by somebody from the 3rd division team, who lived through everything. Somebody that understood. Not somebody that never got it in all his professional career. Somebody who thinks footballers are underpaid, because of the public pressure. How about you become a EMT, a fireman or a policeman, who deal with the pressure of trying to save the lives of others for 1% of your wage.What happened? Failed Panenka?
Basically Wagner has been #1 in Germany on the H to I-scale for the past 10 years. Nobody so irrelevant has had so many haters before. Yeah I just invented the Hate to Irrelevancy scale just to express my disdain for the man.
@JustFootballFan I think you have a really good chance to win against Hertha next week. Even the game against Gladbach is far away from being lost, they are terrible away from home. I must say though, it was really funny to see Wagner miss the penalty.
Brandt has been on fire the last weeks. Maybe he should be in the squad for the Euro.
Shinji with another goal and assist in Dortmund's 5-1 victory over Wolfsburg. A shame his time with us didn't work out.
Next to the fantastic Mkhitaryan probably the MotM today, although every player of the offensive unit played well today. Really got out of his winter slump and is IMO right now even a tad better than in the first season half.
Wolfsburg was absolutely shocking, I predicted before the season that they would struggle a lot because of the DeBruyne transfer, but even I did not see this type of implosion coming. It basically rivals our last season and in difference to us they won´t qualify for any International competition next year. With Volkswagen stuggling as they are and Rodriguez and Gustavo probably being out of the door in the Summer, they might aswell dissapear in the midtable for a couple of years. Not that anyone will miss the self proclaimed Bayern hunter Nr. 1...