The new provisional back-three - anchored by midfielder Kristijan Jakic - wasn't tested at all by a Bremen side wholly incompetent at every last position. Daichi Kamada turned in an uncommonly quiet performance in midfield. There were several heavy touches and poor finishes from the Dane. Direct buttressing support attacker Jesper Lindstrøm didn't exactly break out of his current form slump. SGE keeper Kevin Trapp enjoyed a completely uneventful day at the office.Īre Eintracht, as Trapp suggested, now back up-and-running ahead of the crucial Champions' League showdown with Napoli? One can still hold some reservations about this. This one never had a competitive feel about it. Bremen actually only got above the 0.0 mark until Niclas Füllkrug managed a shot and disallowed goal in second-half injury time. Eintracht shrugged off their own blanking at the hands of Köln last week and put guests SV Werder Bremen to bed fairly easily with a 2-0 dismantling. The Hessen hosts racked up an impressive xG total of 2.07 whilst the Hanseaten mustered up a paltry 0.24. Frankfurt were, like Stuttgart, unequivocally dominant in their own shut-out win.
We received a fairly strong statement from Oliver Glasner's Rhein-Main Adler in Saturday evening's "Top-Spiel". A tougher stretch thereafter - Bayern, Eintracht, Wolfsburg, and Union - certainly dampens expectations a bit, but there's much more to think on now that Labbadia has the right actors in place and thriving in the basic tactical framework he's been trying to run in the new calendar year. The designated "Feuerwehrman" head-coach finally has this rusty tanker turned around and pointed in the right direction. Hopes of taking another three points off Schalke should remain high. Stuttgart - albeit somewhat slower than one might have hoped - wrested the game away from Köln with a steadily increasing amount of confidence. Chris Führich continues to look very strong. Konstantinos Mavropanos (returning from a short burn-out break), Waldemar Anton (the much-maligned makeshift right back), and Silas (back from an injury timeout and some emotionally draining legal matters) also all played well. In all honesty, the VfB crew haven't displayed this much spirit and fight since they last hosted Köln during the famous relegation escape on the last matchday of the previous season. Enthusiastic and energetic performances from the likes of Endo, Haraguchi, Sosa and Dias count as only the beginning of the good news. New signing Gil Dias scored a scorcher of a goal whilst returnee Borna Sosa announced his presence with a masterful tally off a set-piece.Ī team most all Bundesliga watchers had long written off now enjoy a wholly different status. The double-eight set up of captain Wataru Endo and the newly-acquired Genki Haraguchi generated chance after chance. The new trainer's new 4-1-4-1 clicked throughout the course of virtually the entire 90 minutes. FC Köln at the Mercedes Benz Arena. What surprises the most here concerns just how dominant Labbadia's seemingly inept squad appeared in the totally lopsided victory. Bruno Labbadia's VfB Stuttgart unexpectedly earn some breathing room in the relegation battle after earning a 3-0 win over visiting 1. One must admit that few of us saw this one coming. Photo: GEPA Pictures/PICTURE POINT/Sven Sonntag/Pool via PICTURE POINT
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