Wolfsburg (dpa) – Enough time to think would have been – but Bastian Schweinsteiger did not want to talk. Two minutes to midnight drew the previously punched captain of the football team wordlessly his rolling suitcase through the basement of the Wolfsburg stadium.
What Schweinsteiger after the 2: 3 at VfL and the sobering Champions League from Manchester United thought? What does he think of the renewed criticism of his coach Louis van Gaal? The remained unanswered, as Schweinsteiger silently left the stadium after more than an hour in the room for doping control.
information Joyous Schweinsteiger was coach of the former Bayern star in the late abwatschte Tuesday night again. Before the criticism of his German midfielder of the Dutch coach had but still an English journalist in his inimitable style dogs: “Will you interrupt me?”, The coach harschte to the reporter: “I will give the answer, and you have to listen.”
Then punished van Gaal his erstwhile favorite players from Munich days with a simple sentence from. “I do not Change servicekit a player just like this,” said the United manager, who Schweinsteiger had brought already in the 69th minute from the square.
View from the bench had the German international, shaking his head with, as one of the biggest clubs in world football upstart from Wolfsburg lost and slipped into second-rate Europa League. The Schweinsteiger had imagined differently when he moved to the popular Premier League club.
The criticism in England was merciless. “Embarrassing, amateurish, terribly,” headlined by the British newspaper “The Times”. Schweinsteiger was the focus. “The German was a huge disappointment. He looked slowly and had a weakness rather than a driving force,” judged the “Manchester Evening News”. “He was for some reason the only one who wore gloves. It looked like when the time gnaws at him,” wrote “The Sun”.
The “Guardian” sneered: “The footballer, who for so long whirred like a Mercedes, coughed and spluttered, as raced past the VW logo on him He let too many opportunities. until he was finally substituted. ”
Several former star player criticized coach Louis van Gaal. “It’s disappointing,” the former captain Rio Ferdinand said at the TV broadcast of BT Sport. His former team-mate Paul Scholes said: “United looks like an average team, and then you get even an average performance.”
The former national player also pointed to the high transfer spending recent back: “You have spent 250 million pounds and can not qualify in this light group.” Scholes criticized: “It must be said that they have not so good shopped as they could have done.”
The former England international Michael Owen complained to the same transmitter that van Gaal had sorted out a lot of good professionals at its started eighteen months ago reconstruction. With Manchester which had survived the group stage after Owens view.
The coach told himself criticized alone against Schweinsteiger. “He wants to play at the highest level, especially in Germany,” Van Gaal said. But that did not work out: “I can not say that he was the Schweinsteiger from my time in Munich.”
The former Munich coach has apparently zeroed in on Schweinsteiger. Already a few days ago he complained that the DFB-captain does not play at a high level. This is true and is particularly true for the Wolfsburg game. Nevertheless remarkable that the coach a player whom he has brought personal, public reprimands such.
That Schweinsteiger played weak in Wolfsburg, there was no question. He had 94 percent, although the best pass rate of his team, but played the 31-year-old mainly transverse, reinsurers and other security passes. Frightening also was the duel rate of only 20 percent – the worst of the whole team.
The worst is likely, however, have felt for the former Bayern star, like austanzte him his roommates from the World Cup in Brazil. When Julian Draxler world masterful preparation of the second VfL gate the difference revealed most clearly – on the one hand the dynamic Draxler, on the other the static operating Schweinsteiger.
Afterwards, it was the 22-year old Wolfsburg and not about Manchester’s coach who took the duped veteran after midnight in protection. “The infected the good way,” Draxler said: “Since I’m ever not worry about him.”
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