Next defeat for Kramer and Schalke against Hoffenheim – Gladbach fails in Darmstadt

Darmstadt continues to earn money… still with taste, you can’t be sure, but with VAR there would have been a penalty (if not that would be more than just strange) something like that can of course change the course of the game a lot… although me Too often for fans, a penalty that is not given is equivalent to a goal being denied… it’s just not given at all that a penalty is also sunk.

But yes, of course the game could have ended differently. Ultimately, it plays a small role, because Gladbach doesn’t have that many excuses for having breakfast here. Darmstadt was simply the better team, and a penalty doesn’t change that. And I refuse to believe that the overall performance of Gladbach would have been all of a sudden so much better because of a possible penalty. After all, after the 1-1 draw, it wasn’t exactly the fireworks that burned off.

Well then Schalke… let’s be honest, did anyone expect anything else? Also in the cup? Nobody is interested in the competition at Schalke right now… you have big problems in the league and you will and must only concentrate on that. Since the drop was already completely sucked after the 2:0. I would have been very surprised if Schalke had bent over backwards here… why they were 2-0 behind after 15 minutes and there was hardly any resistance from the start is another topic…

But that shouldn’t really affect Kramer’s job for the time being, the Hertha game will be much more meaningful. After you clearly lost in the league against Hoffenheim and they really didn’t do a particularly good job, it was quite clear that Hoffenheim in normal form would shoot down Schalke in the cup.

The rest was irrelevant, no surprises, some got off with a black eye.

There are quite a few 50:50 games tomorrow. So does Paderborn against Bremen… We’ll come up with a line-up that hasn’t played like this before. Defensive is almost diced, no idea what it should look like without Friedl and Veljkovic. Duksch stays at home (which is also correct, missed rehab training and team meeting = game break, completely normal, if you are late you can also be fined, missing a game completely is a pause for thought, I think everyone does it) so it will too getting unfamiliar at the front…. and the well-rehearsed and “familiar” was our strength so far, the cogs mostly meshed.

The air is burning at Paderborn at the moment… it will be a really difficult game at eye level.

jo and otherwise… Stuttgart: Bielefeld, RegensburgDüsseldorf, Sandhausen: KSC None of the three games would be one where I would bet on who would progress.

Hannover: BVB could also be interesting… And one or the other game too. But Bayern won’t let anything go wrong against Augsburg. I think Freiburg and Union are too stable for what is happening there.