Brandi
14 years ago
Well, not sure what to think of the fact that teams like Hannover or Freiburg have been pretty scufesscul. It's exciting on the one hand, as you point out, and Freiburg for example is indeed absolutely brilliant tactically, but then again, their individual quality is so limited and it's a shame all these so-called top-teams have struggled that much. Just awful what Bremen, Schalke, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart and Hamburg have done in terms of putting the team together and/or game tactics. By the way, I wouldn't call Hannover interesting at all. Quite remarkable on the one hand what results they've achieved with a severly depleted team, but they've been lucky more than anything in my opinion. Not even mainly within certain games, but how their schedule was put together. They played Frankfurt, Schalke, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg in the first four weeks that's four teams who started slowly. Then Bremen, Kaiserslautern and Cologne among others a little later that's three teams who suffered a crisis in September/October. Then against Mainz and HSV in the last couple of weeks that's two teams who've not exactly been at their best lately. Hannover's people of course will tell their own excellent play was part of the struggles of all these teams when they played them, but well, I much rather think it's pretty easy to look good (also tactically) when you play against opposition not being at its best that often.