The last and the next match
By: Anna | August 7th, 2008
Last weekend, Stuttgart beat the FC St. Pauli 5:2 in the last test match. After Pauli scoring the leading goal in the first half, Stuttgart had to wait until after the break to turn the match around. But in minute 48, Mario Gomez equalized. Two goals were scored by Ciprian Marica, and one each by defence newbie Robin Schuster and Danijel Ljuboja. Later Pauli managed to score again, but the match had long been decided.
This means that three of Stuttgart’s strikers scored, and that with Cacau not playing due to muscular problems and Manuel Fischer missing two good chances. Seems like the striker department should not cause me as much worry as I had expected.
Especially not after I caught a video from the match that featured an interview with Mario Gomez, in which he said the following: “I never negotiated with any other club. The VfB made very clear that they wanted to keep me here and I accept that.”
On the question whether he’s already annoyed by all the fuss around him, he answers “no, that’s over, I’m here with the VfB and I’m looking forward to the new season.”
Now, even though that isn’t exactly new, it still gets more relieving every time I hear it.
The next match for the VfB should not be much of a challenge in theory. But we all know the DFB Cup has its own rules and so I hope the team treats the upcoming match on Sunday against FC Hansa Lüneburg as serious as they should. After all their trainer has been successful in that tournament before: Ralf Sievers played for Eintracht Frankfurt in 1988, when they won the Cup.
The FC plays in the Oberliga, that’s four leagues below Stuttgart. For them, it might well be the match of the year. Nevertheless, I think that it’s quite realistic to assume that the VfB will make it to the next round.
Especially since it’s the first competitive match this season that’s also going to feature Hitzlsperger, Lehmann and Gomez, who came home from their post Euro holidays too late to help out in the UI Cup match.
And with this sort-of match preview, I have to say goodbye for the weekend, since I’ll be on a short, three day holiday trip. I don’t even know if I’ll be back early enough to watch the game on Sunday. Apologies in advance, I hope that there’s going to be one point in this season where I can actually write a match report down that features my opinion based on what I saw, and not just some figures I had to copy from another page. Sorry!
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