Thomas Tuchel wanted to say something. In order that everyone understood how high the 3: 1 victory of his team in Stuttgart “given the circumstances” was assessed, the Dortmund coach raised his hand flat just over 30 centimeters above his head: “So high …”
in fact, the BVB deserved the semi-finals for several reasons: better first half, higher individual quality against an ordinary, even strong in the second round opponents, things like that. But why Tuchel raised his hand, which was true for all players on the pitch: Who in the weather and soil conditions that prevailed on Tuesday, with such devotion over 90 minutes shows a so-paced football, has the recognition actually earned ,
After a good quarter of an hour broke dense rain squalls over Stuttgart from the previous Geniesel, minute by minute disappeared now increasingly the original green of the grass under a thick mud layer. But while the game machine gradually acquired the characteristics of a medicine ball on a North Sea beach, the players kept on running – so fast that he could. “We have a lot of morale shown,” said VfB coach Jürgen Kramny, “but are often stuck on the quality of the opponent.”
Aubameyang puts his Cup series continues
Why ultimately Dortmund won and not the VfB can perhaps be best to tell based on the BVB results because the generated all three of the individual class of the team. At 1: 0 Marco Reus finished off from close range and chipped the ball from an acute angle slightly – just as Mitch Langerak had the VfB goal really no chance to get the ball. At 2: 0 availed Reus colleagues Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a centimeter-level play through the interface of the Stuttgart defense – the Gabonese met seasonally across in his seventh Cup game in a row. And at 1: 3 up Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan counterattack easy with the concentration to the end, which was missing the VfB in two, three situations. High precision at high speeds -. And the 89th minute in the mud
If they seemed nevertheless not really depressed at the Stuttgart camp after the game, was the especially strong on the second pass. Since BVB had phased good to do to defend their lead. The Stuttgart team is fit, it combines and fighting, is quick to turnovers again in the basic order. It’s true: With the team that on 29 November 1 at the first game under Kramny: 4 lost in Dortmund, this band has a few weeks later, little in common
Stuttgart better balance. under Kramny
And yet the cup exit came perhaps the right time. Galt VfB few weeks ago as strugglers, many now trust him everything in the opposite direction. But this is nonsense. Yes, VfB will perhaps even achieve a digit place in the table in this form. But no, not everything Ex-coach Alexander Zorniger said was complete nonsense. That Georg Niedermeier Meier is neither the fastest nor the Ballsicherste and therefore needs far too many fouls to clean get out duels, is in all its qualities (the Angry actually ignored) can not be denied. At his foul on Mats Hummels (34 minutes) of the “Lower Tractor” (Hard-Earned nickname in Stuttgart for years) was in any case well served with a yellow card.
Even if the defensive overall much safer acts as still Angry: This is mainly due to the better balance in the team and not because of VfB suddenly four defense giants have in their ranks who would Angry trained easily wrong , Particularly neat it made to the old colleagues but Kevin Grosskreutz, who did a great favor by his coach, “that he has not overturned, as many expected”.
A lot of joy should be still in their Midfield have. The formation Dié-Rupp-Gentner-Didavi-Kostic heard for the better, has to offer the league. Against the BVB however that was not enough to superiority in midfield. Finally Dortmund is indeed the second best team by far in German football. Since Tuesday, it does not seem quite unlikely that it will meet again for the best in the final.
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