Arminia had also promised loyalty to their coach, but broke their word. Frank Kramer has been put on leave. Instead of a well-known football coach who was trained in rescue operations, like the one Hertha BSC had found in Felix Magath weeks earlier, the Bielefeld team opted for an internal solution and promoted goalkeeping coach Marco Kostmann to boss.
His debut failed at 1: 3 at 1. FC Köln. “Bielefeld was often closer to 2:2 than we were to 3:1“, Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart admitted and thus underpinned Kostmann’s conclusion, who had said: “My main focus was that we have to improve our performance in terms of courage and commitment. I saw that over long distances.“
Problems at Arminia Bielefeld
Arminia’s big problem is having gotten into a situation where draws are not enough. The Bielefeld have only scored 24 goals and a pass rate of 75 percent. Both values are the worst in the league. The data service provider “deltatre” leads Arminen in penultimate place when it comes to shots to goal and great chances, only relegated Greuther Fürth is behind them.
The fact that the chances of staying up in the league were much better than they are now is due to the stable defense. In the last eight games, from which the DSC took only one point, the opponent scored at least one goal.
Problems of VfB Stuttgart
One of VfB’s problems is that the opportunities available are not being used enough. VfB’s top scorers are striker Saša Kalajdžić and central defender (!) Konstantinos Mavropanos, each with just four goals.
It also weighs heavily that VfB have already conceded 55 goals. The opponent only remained without a goal four times, but none of them in the old Neckarstadion.
This means that Florian Müller has never played a home game for VfB without conceding a goal. The goalkeeper, who had good values last season at 1. FSV Mainz 05, has saved 63 percent of his shots this season – weak. Müller often asked the question: Would another Bundesliga goalkeeper have saved it?
Müller’s record at the game in Berlin was representative of VfB’s devastating Sunday: two in, two in.
You can find out for whom the last Saturday in April is going as planned from 6 p.m. in the sports show. The games in Bielefeld and Stuttgart will each kick off at 3:30 p.m.