Roberto di Matteo Sack Watch

They weren't missing as many key players as they'd like you to think though. Yes they missed 4 excellent players, but even when they're healthy they rotate in and out of the team.

Going to have to disagree with you there. Goretzka, Draxler, Farfan, Kolasinac & Fahrmann are all first teamers imo.

Worst derby loss in 18 years apparently. Wouldn't be surprised if fans are on his back now especially with Dortmund hot on their heels.

Well, Jens Keller missed them and even more players and still he went along pretty okayish. RDM has more of the starters available, but his results are not really an improvement to Keller's. I still think that Schalke shouldn't have thrown out the money for a coach when they could have used it to improve the squad instead.

Well if Di Matteo wasn't loved before, let alone now ....... there is not worse than losing a derby in this way for a football fan . and Borussia is also in its worst moment/year under Klopp ....

That performance will have erased that derby battering. Easily the best team performance I've seen this season. A team with an average age of 22 went to Madrid's own ground and thoroughly outplayed them.

Well, finally RDM decided to play the kids, and obviously they want to play and not park the bus. If they continue like this, things definitely look better. (Although I still doubt he will stay out his contract - as I said this is Schalke)

this guy is a genius..
plays a 19 year old kid on his season debut against Madrid in their home and he scores a beauty..
almost scored another too.

that Benzema goal was offside btw

farfan wrote:that Benzema goal was offside btw

I just that saw that it hit the Schalke defender before going to him, hence why it wasn't ruled out I think.

Winter is Coming wrote:

farfan wrote:that Benzema goal was offside btw

I just that saw that it hit the Schalke defender before going to him, hence why it wasn't ruled out I think.

Deflections off a defender still mean it's offside. The only time it isn't offside after an opposing player touches the ball is if the opposition player is in possession of the ball and then the ball ends up with someone who is offside.

The way this would happen is if a defender passes it to a striker who is offside, for a clear example.

Passing a ball that deflects off someones foot and still goes to a player who is offside is still offside.

I don't think it was called simply because it was so close that those are pretty hard to call. Can't blame the assistant ref for missing it.

Lost the war but won the battle. RDM proving his CL win was no fluke. The man knows how to field a team and proved that he doesn't rely on pure experience and plays the younger players. Probably something he picked up in England methinks.

In a Schalke forum I just read about the current situation of Schalke:

>> Bayer und Gladbach sind gerade ganz weit weg. (= Bayer and Gladbach are currently very far away [from us])
> Das ist halt der unfaire Vorteil wenn man mit Trainer spielt. (= Well, that's the unfair advantage of them playing with a coach.)

the Xenophobia in some german football fans is a very serious situation indeed

Xenophobia? It's more like Schalke will miss the CL next season, while with Jens Keller they managed to get to the CL both seasons before, even though Keller had just as many injured players.

Oh, and I just heard at SSNHD that this is Schalke's worst Rückrunde since 22 years. *smh*

Closer to the bottom half than the Champions League spots...


Oh Robbie. Where did it all go wrong

farfan wrote:the Xenophobia in some german football fans is a very serious situation indeed

Wat?
Favre is Swiss, Schmid Austrian.

VivaStPauli wrote:Wat?
Favre is Swiss, Schmid Austrian.

Roger Schmidt is German, but the other Schmidt is Swiss. And Huub is Dutch.

Swiss, Austrian, Dutch, so basically all German

Breath Easy Leverkusen

rwo power wrote:

VivaStPauli wrote:Wat?
Favre is Swiss, Schmid Austrian.

Roger Schmidt is German, but the other Schmidt is Swiss. And Huub is Dutch.

Really? Huh.
And here I always was, correcting people that Hitzfeld is German, and now I get it wrong with Schmidt...

Hapless_Hans wrote:Swiss, Austrian, Dutch, so basically all German

Made Ribery German, brought Lewandowski "home," claimed Schmidt for Germany and launching an assault for De Bruyne in two months. It's happening again.

What blind, blind fools we've been.

Maybe we'll stop if you just keep us calm by giving us Hazard?

In 2015 we appease them with Hazard.

In 2016 they're dancing beneath the Arc de Triomphe with the Euros in hand.

In 2018 they look east and having learnt from their mistakes, they take Russia in the summer.

Now I'm starting to realise why rwo wants Di Matteo sacked so much. Hold on Robby, you're our only hope to bring them down from the inside.

you should have never trusted us with an army or a football team tbh.

We thought partition would keep us safe. Unfortunately you can't divide and conquer in the Bundesliga as everyone supports all 18 teams.