Beiträge von iowan

Here is some mental food for the thinking fan. In 05/06 Reinert, Schonheim, Ziemer and Bello started their initial professional season with the FCK. Over the past three and half seasons the four had the very same trainers. In 05 Bello was less skilled and talented of the four players. Bello is now a greatly improved and a well established player. WHY?????? Could it be Bello had the will, desire and motivation to become a better player and worked very hard to accomplish it. I do not feel sorry for the other three players but rather a bit angry with them. Why??? They had so much skill and talent and have wasted their time by not fully developing it. They now have no one to blame but themselve. If they had worked hard to fully develop their talent, they could now like Bello be helping the FCK and not just be hanging on. SK may be doing them a big favor by telling them to look for another club. I do not know what Lamprecht has for a problem. It could be the same as the other three which he has skill and talent but may be missing the the will, desire and motivation to work hard to improve. We American have saying about the development of people with talent. You can take a horse to water but you can not force it to drink.

Did not the team play a good offensive 4-1-3-2 tactic until game 11 and then kick and rush started? Could it be the tactic changed because we didn't have the enough players to play key positions of a 4-1-3-2? You need a very offensive LV and RV and we have had only Bello and Dick who can play the positions effectively (Bello 6 secorer points and Dick 6 secorer points). You need very offensive left and right side mid field player who can play a combination game, flank and get behind defense. Sam and Paljic have been very inconsistent and Josh and Rege lost to injury. I feel the trainer changed tactic and did what he needed to do to keep the team in contention. I also feel he will go back to the tactic of the start of season once he has the players available to play the tactical positions. MS is just like us he wants the team finish as high in the standings as it can do.

@ Westkurv

I neither hate or love the man. I just beleive he is good trainer. Last year he took the bad pass kings of the 2nd league who had no confidence, no motivation and no true desire to fight to win and turn them completely around to help keep us the 2nd league. This season his coaching has taken a team with unknown player potential into a potentially winning team and given more time and a few more good players could take us into 1st league. As to who saved the club last season it was SK, MS, the players and the fans working together as a team and as it is in professional sports no one can expect or gets a bonus.

This is for all MS hatters. Is not SK everyones hero and all of us agree he has excellent knowledge of the game? If SK did not feel MS was an excellent trainer would he not have fired MS last summer and found a better trainer? Did not SK and MS sit down come up a concept for the future and not a one season concept? Since King Otto how managers and trainers have we had with one season concepts that cost the FCK wasted millions of Euros? Didn't MS state he planned to have the team play offensive and has he not just done that? If you start playing a new system with new players can you not expect to have a few problems? Has anyone outside me recongnized what type of offensive system MS trying to have the team play and why of late we have run into problems with the team offense? The team is playing a 4-1-3-2 with offensive right and left side defenders run both sidelines trying to create power play scoring chance by using a pressing defense. Our problems started when MS had to move Bello from the left defensive position to try fill other offensive holes. Bello is the most effective player to play the left side defensive position and run the left side line. He has 5 (one goal and four assists) of 6 scorer points when was playing the position which shows his effectiveness. Both SK and MS stated over and over that they needed and things have not changed.

@ Dirtdevil

I will answer your question about the Paljic tactic with three questions.

Is Paljic a mid field player and a professional?

Should not a professional mid fielder like Paljic be expected to play any of the four mid field positions (right, center, left and defensive) and don't alot of good ones do just that?

By moving Dick forward and bring in another defender into the game to play the right defensive position, would this not made the right side more defensive as the combo Sam/Dick had been?

Oh by the way in the last 15 minutes of the game we had nine players on the field who had scored at least one or more goals this season and I do not consider it to be bad tactic when we were one goal down.

@Westkurv

I understood your input and your English is better than when I try to write in German. I can speak and read German and people don't have to respond to me English.

The Augsburg game was total disappointment to me. The team played with no desire or heart and no determination to win. Could it have been the team was over confident after the six goal home win? This was the first time this season that I had the feeling the the desire to win was missing.

@WESTKURV

Why do you feel the team has slowly lost it over the last five or six games? I have given my opinion and also feel the trainer has seen the problems that is why he is doing all his experimenting on the left side (six different players in mid field and four different players on defense). If I was the trainer I would put Bello and Josh on the left side and Dick and Sam on the right and then you potentially have the strong push forward on both sides as seen in first seven games. However, Josh will need time to get his last season form back. This is why I am very willing to give the team and trainer the time needed that they did not have at the start of the season. I have not given up hope and feel that play will improve. If I thought the training staff was lost and didn't know what the problems are, I would not have this hope for the future.

I disagree with a number of opioions expressed here. Look at our first nine games in those games we played good to very good games. Why?? Could it be our offensive mid field and outside defenders were playing well and pushing forward to create scoring chances and power player situations. What Happened ??? Could it be Paljic lost his early season form and the trainer in game 10 started doing left mid field experiments trying to find someone who could play the the position by trying Bello, Sam, Eric, Josh and back to Paljic in 2nd half in Augsburg with either very limited or no success. Heese playing in right mid field in three games (10, 11 and 12)was a total failure. Sam and Dick on the right side are an excellent combination. We need the same type of combination on the left side but it will take time to find it. Josh may be our left mid field answer if he can get back the end of last season form. Oh by the way we only played well in first 15 minutes and after Eric scored the 3rd goal in last home game but in between we were so so. Why?? Could be Eric and Bugera could not created any power play scoring chances from the left side in the first half and the pressure all came from the right and what happens when your offense is one sided and you get shut down.

I still have a lot of hope for this season. Once we get both Abel and Rege off the injured list, we then potentially have two experienced players who can help a very young team. I also feel given time we can solve left side problems.

I am satisfied with the performance improvement so far this season. However, I have seen signs that we can play better and I think we will but it will take time. Milan has had to face two problems. First, four players joined the team and could not be tested in pre-season. The four long term injured players also has not helped. He in turn has had to experiment and test in league games. For example Sam plays well in right mid field but has big problems on the left side and Heese and Erik play good as strikers but have real problems in right and left mid-field. Secondly, he has had problems in finding the right players for the left side in both the offensive and the defensive positions but I hope Josh and Bugera will finally solve these problems.

The long ball was not tactic but was the result of failure of the four mid field players. In those few games in which I saw the long ball all of our mid field players intially fell back to far on defense and gave up the mid field to the other team. If you don't have anyone to pass to mid field (two strikers and four defenders) , you end up playing kick and rush. I seriously doubt this was a tactic Milan wanted the team to play.

I see us playing a 1-4-4-2. The team tactic is the three offensive mid field players sharing the offensive responsibility. The team is also trying to use a pressing defense starting in the opposing team half. This can and has created a power play for us in many games.

It is my opinion a few people in this forum are making an unfair judgement of Dzaka's contribution to the team success. Why?

What offensive tactical concept is Milan trying to install? Is he using the old and outdated Netzer style offense where 60,70 or 80 percent of the offense is totally dependent upon one play maker in mid field or is Milan using a tactical concept of using three offensive mid field player who equally share responsible to be play makers and make deadly scoring passes as well as being able to score themselve. Thus far this season I have seen the three player mid field offensive concept with all of our mid field players doing just that. I am quite sure Dzaka was signed to fill the role of an offense mid field player that Milan wanted him to play in the shared mid field tactical concept and I seriously doubt that he was signed to become the next Netzer of 1FCK. Oh by the way any good central mid fielder can also fill the Dzaka tactical role as Bello did in two games. You should determine the tactical role the trainer has asked Dzaka to play in the offense and defense and not what you think his role should be. I have seen one super game from him, some ok games, one bad game Koblenz and the last game was not bad but not ok. I am not an expert like few people in the forum are but over the years I have seen enough good soccer to know who is contributing or not or who is a technically good player or not. Each of us have our opinions and have seen nothing in Dzaka play thus far to support your opinion and change mine.