Re: Ze German Thread

by M99 Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:43 pm

Reus

by rwo power Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:12 pm

I'm absolutely saddened for the boy, too. Sad

But at least he will likely have the chance to play two more world cups, other than Franck Ribéry for whom now the last chance to shine slipped away.

On the other hand, maybe this will come to boost the German NT as they will now push even harder for the win as they want to win it even more for the guys who miss out, too.

by urbaNRoots Sat Jun 07, 2014 6:29 pm

Reus is a huge huge huge miss, best and most in form player in the team missing. That's like Neymar missing for Brazil or Iniesta for Spain. If we ever had a chance, it was with Reus. I hope others can step up for him but I doubt it.

by Hapless_Hans Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:36 pm

It really is BAD. In such a good form.

Only thing is that Reus' position is one where we have a lot of quality still in the squad, Poldi, Schürrle, Draxler, Götze..

As for our 'chances', I've stopped regarding us title favourites a while ago, this is obviously not making it likelier..

by futbol Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:38 pm

Time for prince Poldi to shine.

lol

by rwo power Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:33 pm

Fußball wrote:Time for prince Poldi to shine.
lol

Never "lol" at Godolski :coffee:

by messixaviesta Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:42 pm

urbaNRoots wrote:Reus is a huge huge huge miss, best and most in form player in the team missing. That's like Neymar missing for Brazil or Iniesta for Spain. If we ever had a chance, it was with Reus. I hope others can step up for him but I doubt it.

I read a similar comment that without Reus Germany have no chance of winning WC 2014.

by messixaviesta Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:43 pm

Is this world cup missing more top class players through injury than any other in recent memory?

by VivaStPauli Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:29 am

Of course Reus is a huge loss, but it's not like Neymar or Iniesta missing, we're much more deep than that, let's remember that Götze would normally be benched as well, Reus getting injured just means more match time for Götze, Podolski, and Schürrle, who are all also very good.

Of course every high caliber player you lose sucks, especially in a world cup like this one ,where you expect to make lots of substitutions because of the weather alone.

by messixaviesta Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:39 am

viva, if you expected Gotze to be benched then which front 4 did you expect to see from the start?

by VivaStPauli Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:57 am

klose
Reus Özil Müller

Was my prediction.

by Toffer Harley Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:09 am

c'mon guys this is not the time to be sad. let's just freakin get closer together and start destroying

by messixaviesta Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:12 am

VivaStPauli wrote:
klose
Reus Özil Müller

Was my prediction.

If at this age Klose can start as a number 9 at a world cup for a top national team then he deserves maximum kudos.

by urbaNRoots Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:31 am

VivaStPauli wrote:Of course Reus is a huge loss, but it's not like Neymar or Iniesta missing, we're much more deep than that, let's remember that Götze would normally be benched as well, Reus getting injured just means more match time for Götze, Podolski, and Schürrle, who are all also very good.

Of course every high caliber player you lose sucks, especially in a world cup like this one ,where you expect to make lots of substitutions because of the weather alone.

Spain have Koke, Mata, Silva to replace Iniesta, great players but they are no Iniesta. Brazil have Bernard, Willian to replace Neymar, again great players but they are no Neymar. Same situation with us.

But I agree with the main point that we should get behind those who will play and hope someone else steps up and makes a name for himself.

by M99 Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:06 am

messixaviesta wrote:Is this world cup missing more top class players through injury than any other in recent memory?

Forget recent. No World Cup in history saw so many injuries.

by neuro11 Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:23 am

did he have previous discomfort or he was completely fine till this game....if so its a really shame to loose a star for a friendly....don know how is his feeling...

by VivaStPauli Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:24 pm

neuro11 wrote:did he have previous discomfort or he was completely fine till this game....if so its a really shame to loose a star for a friendly....don know how is his feeling...

He was completely fine, with zero complaints, fit to play 90 minutes, and in the form of his life.

by Hapless_Hans Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:52 pm

VivaStPauli wrote:
neuro11 wrote:did he have previous discomfort or he was completely fine till this game....if so its a really shame to loose a star for a friendly....don know how is his feeling...

He was completely fine, with zero complaints, fit to play 90 minutes, and in the form of his life.

Yep. Unluckily twisted his ankle after a challenge which wasn't out of the ordinary as far as I remember (I look away when slow motions of this stuff is shown as I don't want to see it).

Nothing anyone can do about it, nor could anyting have been done to avoid it.

by rwo power Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:18 pm

Yeah, it was just bad luck that he landed badly on the side of the foot and then pronated his ankle, which lead to the ligament rupture. It was a move that could have happened anywhere, even in just so (I had something very similar when just running to catch a bus when I mis-stepped badly on an uneven floor plate - so you don't even need a match or training for that...).

by Art Morte Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:49 pm

Toffer Harley has the right spirit and avatar. Not that either means Germany are going to do well :coffee:

by LeVersacci Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:04 pm

Gundogan with dat early winter bulk

Spoiler:

by messixaviesta Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:48 pm

urbaNRoots wrote:
VivaStPauli wrote:Of course Reus is a huge loss, but it's not like Neymar or Iniesta missing, we're much more deep than that, let's remember that Götze would normally be benched as well, Reus getting injured just means more match time for Götze, Podolski, and Schürrle, who are all also very good.

Of course every high caliber player you lose sucks, especially in a world cup like this one ,where you expect to make lots of substitutions because of the weather alone.

Spain have Koke, Mata, Silva to replace Iniesta, great players but they are no Iniesta. Brazil have Bernard, Willian to replace Neymar, again great players but they are no Neymar. Same situation with us.

But I agree with the main point that we should get behind those who will play and hope someone else steps up and makes a name for himself.

100% spot on and wonderful comments

by urbaNRoots Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:29 pm

In todays press conference Hansi Flick confirms Lahm will play in midfield for the whole tournament, and that Boateng will replace Hummels if he can't make it against Ghana. Hummels is expected to play but we'll hear more from Löw about that tomorrow.

He also said the back 4 won't change if there's no injuries which is good news, they need to play together as much as possible before facing the big teams.

Hopefully Hummels fully recovers but if he doesn't, Flick mentioned Mustafi but Höwedes is another possibility with Durm as LV.

by rwo power Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:55 pm

Well, so taking along another defender wasn't such a bad idea after all.

by rwo power Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:59 am

LOL, looks like Sportbild found out who is living with whom in Campo Bahia. One of the houses consists of

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern), Julian Draxler (Schalke), Matthias Ginter (Freiburg), Kevin Großkreutz (Borussia Dortmund), Benedikt Höwedes (Schalke), and Thomas Müller (Bayern).

I bet they'll have a lot of fun with banters XD

Source: http://sportbild.bild.de/fussball-wm/2014/fussball/exklusiv-alle-spieler-wgs-36450884.sport.html

by VivaStPauli Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:47 am

We also still got the excellent Ginter, who is very mobile and disciplined.

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