Why not? (or: everything as always)
By: Anna | April 27th, 2008
It was yesterday’s big question. They beat Bayern once. So, why not again? Why not beat them again? So, here is why not:
- The defence. I love to say that Fernando Meira is no good unless he’s playing with Delpierre next to him, or a player who has an equal playing style. Same goes for Delpierre, who is useless with Tasci. They are both very calm defenders and playing for the same team, they seem to fall asleep on the pitch.
- The injuries, as always. Hitzlsperger out, Khedira out, Meira out (see above). To add injury to injury, Magnin (again) stumbled and (again) injured his ankle joint.
- The injuries, part two. Gomez and Tasci still should have taken a few more days out; especially Tasci seems to be limping from one injury to the next this season. Magnin’s injury is also to be blamed on the left joint being too stressed before the match (he had two injuries there this season before).
- The midfield. Or, wait, what midfield? I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen the VfB play 4-3-3 before and I think it didn’t really suit them well. Da Silva and Bastürk are both players who can be very, very helpful for a team, but today they were having a team-intern competition at uselessness. As always. Well, yes, da Silva scored, but I don’t think I’ve seen him with the ball on any other occasion. Bastürk, on the other hand, was dribbling beautifully to then lose the ball in the midfield. As always.
- Mario Gomez. Or let me rephrase that: The whole team once again solely relying on one single striker to save them from their misery. As always. A striker who had been injured before, who had not been fit before and who still is too young to play a match all on his own.
- Bayern have Franck Ribery. We have Yildiray BastĂĽrk.
- And of course there was the usual habit of stopping to play after the 2:1.
But there were a few players who actually did what their job is: Raphael Schäfer, who can not be blamed for a single goal he conceded. No, we don’t have a goalkeeper problem (we still have the crappiest goal difference of the upper half of the table). Osorio, who gave Schweinsteiger a very hard time, and Cacau, who played very well for being on a position he’s not used to.
It’s the time that we start looking back on the season and try to sum up how it went. And I can already hear the sigh of relief from Stuttgart once this season is over. Through the whole year there have been maybe two weeks when all players were able to train. And maybe it’s not even too bad if they don’t play Champions League or even miss the UEFA-Cup. This will at least allow them to catch some breath and let all players fully recover. Because the major problem of this season was that everyone had to play as soon as they were able to walk again without being able to become fully fit and get back to their optimal shape.
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As for Schäfer, he seems to have a little slow response to the long distance shoot,doesn’t he? Of course Ribery’s goal is terrific.
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Yeah, Parker. I was streaming the match and the goal, whoa! Not much Schäfer can do though.
‘And maybe it’s not even too bad if they don’t play Champions League or even miss the UEFA-Cup. This will at least allow them to catch some breath and let all players fully recover. Because the major problem of this season was that everyone had to play as soon as they were able to walk again without being able to become fully fit and get back to their optimal shape.’
Maybe, Anna. I had checked the latest standings and we are sixth at the moment. Out of a European place.My initial expectation (this was during the time when we stumbled) was actually if Stuttgart’s still in the league at the end of the season, I will be contented. Then we start to be better and I started to think of a possibility of a European place and then, oh well. Roller-coaster of a ride.
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Ribery and Toni are truly priceless to us. Everyone can say what they want about Mark van Bommel, but without him in midfield, our midfield is a frickin’ mess. I have to say quite honestly, in my opinion, the first twenty minutes of this match against Stuttgart were the most exciting for any match Bayern has played this season. They forced them to play real football which just hasn’t happened as of late. They’ve fallen asleep at the wheel so to speak… falling back on their heels and content to walk away with a draw. Stuttgart challenged them at the start.. until we went up 2:1… then it was over.
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I think Stuttgart could do well in the UEFA Cup — but I don’t know how its financial rewards compare to the Champions League.
I was sorry to see Magnin limp off the pitch. (After Munich, Stuttgart are my sentimental favorites.) I hope he can make it to Swissaustria. Schafer also looked pretty decent — I don’t know what he could’ve done against Ribery’s or Toni’s goals. Otherwise, I wasn’t impressed with the positioning of Osorio or Tasci.
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The financial rewards for the UEFA Cup are very low compared to the Champions League. I have the numbers for the 2006/2007 season lying around somewhere…
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Very low? I hope I can take it, Jan…
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