I don’t understand, to be honest. Augsburg realistically has Mainz, Bremen, Cologne, Bochum, Darmstadt and Heidenheim behind them from the squad. Mainz and Bremen are still on the same level. If you win in Heidenheim after the break, you will have the 6 teams behind you again in the table. So Maaßen was 1 game away from target. Both in terms of the situation before Darmstadt and if we won together in Heidenheim. That’s why I think the change to 15th place is rather reactionary. Who should do it better?
I feel like the problem is a lot of small ones. It’s not just because you now have a new sense of entitlement or overestimate yourself. Instead, like many others who have been watching the club for a long time, I no longer see any positive development.
In terms of football, it’s absolute wasteland what we’ve been offering over long stretches of last season as well as in the 7 games of the current season so far. In the game you can’t really see how you want to pose a threat to your opponent. The goals scored belie the reality a bit and are due to extremely good exploitation of opportunities in the first few games. However, they created some of the fewest chances in the league.
They have only won two games in the last 19 or 20 games. And there were games where you had relatively weak and absolutely beatable opponents who weren’t good in the games themselves (Freiburg, Bochum, Darmstadt, Schalke, Hertha and a few others). They lost almost all of the final games of last season without a fight and had more luck than sense that they didn’t end up in relegation.
Unfortunately, in addition to the very few chances created, there are also a lot of individual and often naive mistakes, which ultimately cost points (last season I think there were 21 points or even more that were lost after taking the lead, often in the last few minutes). game; this season games are usually lost in the opening minutes due to mistakes, penalties or slapstick acts).
Even if it doesn’t always work in a playful way (that’s completely clear to everyone here) then at least there has to be a reaction when you come out of a locker room with a deficit and not only in the last 15-20 minutes like e.g. B. now against Darmstadt at the weekend (this was also something that we often had to complain about last season).
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a real shame that the Maaßen project didn’t work here. I trusted for a very, very long time that we would somehow turn things around (and the first two games of this season didn’t look so bad) but the last few games in particular had nipped that hope in the bud.
– No rebellion against Bochum after the 2-2, only the away team was playing and the Bochum keeper was able to relax and chill on the halfway line for 30 minutes like only Neuer usually does
– A hair-raising first quarter of an hour against Mainz at home, in which they only didn’t fall behind 2-0 thanks to an intervention by the VAR and then somehow ended up winning 2-1 thanks to two stumbling goals by Demi (here, too, Mainz set the tone for most of the game )
– Freiburg was harmless at home, unsettled and ended up winning the game thanks to two individual mistakes on our part. There would have been at least one point if there was a game culture in place (which unfortunately wasn’t there – that’s how haphazard I’ve seen the DFB under Flick lately).
– Darmstadt was now the icing on the cake. I don’t want to deny anything to Darmstadt, Mainz or other clubs. In terms of quality alone, you have to play dominantly at home against a newly promoted team and not go into halftime with less than 30% ball possession and what feels like 10-1 chances in favor of the Darmstadt team. There was no reaction until the 65th or 70th minute. Only after the 0-2 did a small reaction come. In my opinion that’s not enough in such an important game.