That hurts: Schalke and Choupo-Moting lose in Mainz
Schalke 04 are a great team. That may just after a 0: 2 defeat at Mainz 05, the arg has endangered the Europa League qualification for next season, be a surprising decision. But in fact, has probably never been a team with a higher average with respect to the height of his ten outfield presented in Mainz – and at the same time, despite the average 1.86 meters defenseless in standards of Rheinhessen
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Author: Daniel Meuren, sports editor of
Because Mainz 05 won the match in front of 34,000 spectators at the sold-out stadium Mainzer mainly thanks to two goals by Stefan Bell (18th / 31st minute) respectively from corners. This is all the more surprising because the Mainz send the currently with an average of almost ten centimeters less than Schalke probably the smallest selection of field players of all 18 Bundesliga clubs onto the pitch. Only Bell and his fellow central defender Niko Bungert comply with the court players the Gardemaß a “Royal Blues”.
Accordingly simply would Mainz standards actually to defend, although the quality of the allegedly courted by Schalke John Geis at dead ball upscale Bundesliga match level. But Schalke 04 that took the former Mainz Maxim Choupo-Moting and Roman Neustadter, behaved twice surprisingly amateurish at the sharp cross gifts midfielder.
Mainz defender Bell shows colleagues as scoring goes “AML” Photogallery
First, central defender Matija Nastasic was not determined enough to the ball so that the ball fell five meters in front of goal Bell’s feet. The central defender slid it on easily. Even worse, the defensive behavior was “miners” in the second query: Although Geis its flanks can actually zirkeln only to Bell or Bungert as the only header hazardous Mainz, Bell was not disturbed by two men, against Joel Matip he sat down surprisingly easily and headed to 2: 0 a
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The Mainz who campaigned on their jerseys for the German Bone Marrow Donor, thus suddenly resulted in a game that had clearly identified in the Schalke at the beginning of the sound. The Mainz goalkeeper Loris Karius defeated in the fourth minute twice with excellent saves a residue: First, he drew a shot of for more than 1000 minutes of play unsuccessful striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to the corner, then he prevented the ball after a header from Matip blank range with a reflex from crossing the goal line.
Slowly the defensive stable Mainz came aggressively back into the game and the game finally decided as in the previous week at 3: 2 win at Freiburg with remarkable efficiency for yourself. Out of the game, the Mainz developed namely only in the final phase of chances that would have justified an even higher success against the increasingly perplexed becoming Schalke at the end.
This disturbs the Rheinhessen indeed hardly: You got rid in only nine games since completed in dire need coaching change by the Dane Kasper Hjulmand the Swiss Martin Schmidt, now at 37 points all relegation worries. Consequently, the club had extended early before the game against Schalke contract with his coach until 2018.
Instead of predictable fight for the relegation until the last match, the Mainz three draws and two defeats can search the strong record of four wins, including the Bundesliga novices now have four games remaining personnel plans for the coming, sixth Bundesliga year in a row forge ahead. In this respect the club as coach Schmidt recently expressed, quite on size.
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