Who played against whom and how?
Which game couldn’t you miss?
Frankfurt against Bayern because it gave rise to fundamental football questions: How much risk is healthy? Where does courage end and naivety begin? And why is Omar Marmoush hitting every ball? After the 3:3 it is clear that Bayern can only fail this year because of themselves. They radiated an almost incomprehensible dominance throughout almost the entire game, creating chances like they were out of a playbook. Frankfurt never actually had the ball, but when they did, they scored. In the first half they even took a 2-1 lead after their second counterattack of the game. In the end, three counter-attacks were enough for the Hessians to get a point, which they celebrated like a victory. Man of the day: Omar Marmoush, who prepared one goal and scored two himself, as well as the equalizer deep into stoppage time.
You first have to manage to be counterattacked in the 94th minute when you’re in the lead. Dazn expert Michael Ballack, who held a small football-philosophical seminar with Thomas Müller after the game, also found this. Ballack found that Bayern, as in the defeat against Aston Villatook too much risk. Müller had a different opinion (as did his coach Vincent Kompany). “It was a pleasure how we inflamed the opponent.” And that this dominance comes with a certain risk. That this style of play is better in the long term because, given the ratio of goal chances created to goals allowed, nothing else can come out of it other than many, many victories. “If we play this game 15 more times, we will win it 13 times,” said Müller. And after three games without a win: “I like being in this crisis.”
Which game could you have missed with a clear conscience?
Bremen against Freiburg. Bremen fans have been missing out on the best thing about football at home games for some time now: celebrating a goal. Her team never scored in the three home games of the season so far. The same applies to FC St. Pauli, but in Bremen it is particularly unfortunate because one of the most romantic goal celebration elements in the league traditionally sounds after a home goal in Bremen, a low-sounding fog horn. The silence of the foghorn, which sounds like a mediocre crime thriller from northern Germany, actually makes the Werder fans shiver. In the 0-1 defeat against Freiburg, Bremen’s offensive shortage was so great that Werder coach Ole Werner even substituted Oliver Burke, even though the Scottish striker had actually already been sorted out and is only on Bremen’s pay slip because there was no new club in the summer found him.
Who was in the spotlight?
Kevin Vogt. He knows how to wait for goals. Vogt last scored almost ten years ago, in October 2014, when Germany was still world champion. After 275 goalless games, after 3,640 days, Vogt sank a penalty to make it 1-0 against Borussia Dortmund. Never in the history of the league has an outfield player had to wait longer for a goal than Vogt. He did his main job as a defender, preventing goals, well against BVB, but that was also due to BVB’s disease: a good game (Celtic Glasgow) was followed by another bad one. It’s the well-known Dortmund ups and downs that can sometimes lead you to a big final, but certainly not to the championship. By the way, purely mathematically, Kevin Vogt would be 43 years old when he scores his next goal.
