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With you on the bench

It should be easy to blame or solve things from one's sofa but seriously, did these subs make any sense from Kovac. Far from pretending to know what he was thinking, but leaving Ribery on the pitch for the entire game? He sure as hell creates one or two clear cut chances per half; right after helping the competition create 4 by losing the ball. . . It's just getting annoying.

I can understand Robben being subbed off so that someone with two legs can actually try and cross from the end line but how long are we going to play Renato on the six where he doesn't belong?

How poor is the build up where you have to rely on CBs to spot a target man on the box and misplacing long balls in the process. Isn't there another way to find one of the three strikers that ended up on the pitch?

Started the game with two attacking playmakers and ended up with none.

Does it really make sense to play like this?

To be fair, before the game most people (at least on twitter) were excited with the line-up. We have all come to expect Robbery to start, no matter how bad they play, so I'm not even going to waste breath attacking that (because girl, I've done enough of that last night). But starting Thiago, James and Sanches in midfield was seen as an exciting prospect. A midfield that could defend (Thiago), foul and bulldozer (Sanches) and come up with some good link-up play and freekicks/corners (James)....

Now I'm not entirely sure of this, but it looked like we played a 4141 formation, with Thiago being the defensive midfielder in front of the defense. With Robbery also occupying the center often, it was fairly easy for Hertha to defend: we literally had no way through at the center of the pitch, which coincidentally was the place where most of our players tried to get through with a 4141 line-up.

I'm not going to mention the crosses, bc....well, that would mean I'd have a full on rant about Robbery, and I'm done with that. Either they're favourites of Kovac, or he's scared of them (and the power they have with the higher ups).

The subs made no sense....Especially Wagner...

We've been stuck with the same stale attack for THREE YEARS now, and it's only gone backwards. I can barely remember when we had terrifying wings, or options to change our play off the bench. Coman has been very unlucky, and underplayed in those three years, and Gnabry is suffering the same fate.

Just for the love of everything, beat Ajax next week. I CANNOT have a home loss or draw against them....

Easy to make fault on Ribéry and Robben (Ribéry was awful and Robben was meh) while all the players were at the same level than them.

Not a system problem or a player problem. Just it was a poor day.

They'll wake up in the next two games.

#12 wrote:

Coman wrote:Easy to make fault on Ribéry and Robben (Ribéry was awful and Robben was meh) while all the players were at the same level than them.

Not a system problem or a player problem. Just it was a poor day.

They'll wake up in the next two games.

To make up for this mess - even if what you say WERE true, which I'm pretty sure is not - they need at least 5 games, not two...

Everyone was celebrating already but we didn’t even have a real test yet, even after Hertha... That’s a grade B team and they absolutely outplayed us... Their victory wasn’t lucky or coincidental, it was WELL deserved!
We‘re in for a disappointing season... But let’s just extend Robbery so our future is safe!

You're right. They need to show big performance on 5 games. I just said two as our next 2 opponents are not easy at all.

Then we'll see if it's a global problem or a one day problem.

I disagree with all. I think Ribéry was one of the best players yesterday. I thought my opinion was strange given that everyone was against him so I checked WhoScored where he was rated the 2nd best Bayern player, after Thiago.

He was constantly trying, and failing. Many of the others weren't even trying though. I question the team's attitude and whether they really wanted to win.

MUTU wrote:I disagree with all. I think Ribéry was one of the best players yesterday. I thought my opinion was strange given that everyone was against him so I checked WhoScored where he was rated the 2nd best Bayern player, after Thiago.

I think he might've had good runs, some good passing, but most fans were annoyed/infuriated with the lack of finishing and accurate crossing. Not to mention some loss of possession in dangerous areas (which Thiago was also guilty of). Ribery also might've gotten a lot of criticism bc most of our attacks seem to come from that side...and none actually worked.

Yesterday's pass map btw:

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#12 wrote:

MUTU wrote:I disagree with all. I think Ribéry was one of the best players yesterday. I thought my opinion was strange given that everyone was against him so I checked WhoScored where he was rated the 2nd best Bayern player, after Thiago.

Check a statistic about misplaced passes or on surrendered possession... He was very active, yes, but he sucked...

And being the best in a pile of shit still makes you part of the pile...

Misplaced passes was not necessarily his fault. His teammates were tightly marked either because the build-up was slow or because they were unable to move into space and unmark themselves. Too static. Not saying he couldn't have done better, but the circumstances didn't favour him for sure.

MUTU wrote:I disagree with all. I think Ribéry was one of the best players yesterday. I thought my opinion was strange given that everyone was against him so I checked WhoScored where he was rated the 2nd best Bayern player, after Thiago.

He was constantly trying, and failing. Many of the others weren't even trying though. I question the team's attitude and whether they really wanted to win.

Same here...

He was at least trying...

Where was Lewa James and all?

Roonzil wrote:

MUTU wrote:I disagree with all. I think Ribéry was one of the best players yesterday. I thought my opinion was strange given that everyone was against him so I checked WhoScored where he was rated the 2nd best Bayern player, after Thiago.

I think he might've had good runs, some good passing, but most fans were annoyed/infuriated with the lack of finishing and accurate crossing. Not to mention some loss of possession in dangerous areas (which Thiago was also guilty of). Ribery also might've gotten a lot of criticism bc most of our attacks seem to come from that side...and none actually worked.

Yesterday's pass map btw:

Can't see tweet? Click here!

Yes but that's not all on him as I said earlier in my reply to Ribéry. His teammates were constantly tightly marked and none were truly trying to unmark themselves.

Congratulations to Hertha Berlin and their coach. They really kept it tight at the back while not exactly parking the bus.