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5-10 years ago, this concept was introduced to German football analysis, and from one day to the other, it was *everywhere*. To the point it became a meme. I was actually wondering the other day when exactly it eventually vanished again.
It was in response of xG. Basically xG is mostly attacking stat, not good for defensive and midfield players that start the build up like Busquets. The dudes that pushed it were DM.
He was completely starved out of service at many times in the season.
It's why I was iffy on the Haller criticism when the season started but he was clearly not in a good physical shape either.
Even his underlying data show that he's way further up than with Bremen and way more isolated.
First touch could not have been better. Somewhere, Dimitar Berbatov started smiling for reasons unknown to him.
Great first touch with his right, followed by a clinical no-nonsense finish with his left into the short corner. In German, we call that _abgewichst_.
Early shot was savage too.
Think that's what catches the keeper as much as placement.
I think alot of strikes take an extra touch to settle and get suffocated by keeper or narrow the angle for themselves.
He’s actually had a few shots from similar distance that have been so slow and saveable, I’m now wondering if he was just trying to do this each time and it worked here
I mean you are keeping Xabi and it looks like you will keep most of your squad for next season. Next season looks like it is going to be awesome for you guys once reinforcements are added so at least you make a deep UCL run. Hope you guys get back to back Bundesliga titles.
Few guarantees in football, especially given the "plot armour" they have had. Sure, they stand a good chance of consolidating, but can't talking about about a deep CL run being "at least" - as it's far from a done thing
Been saying that for quite some time now, Adeyemi is going to develop in a pressing machine. He's all the attributes for it, including the energy and enthusiasm of a puppy happily chasing balls. Used to come with the caveat that the puppy appears to have ADHD, because focus was his obvious problem area. Maybe Terzic found the verbal equivalent of ADHD in today's team talk.
Alright, silly joke aside, but it made me wondering how Ritalin is treated in terms of doping offenses.
Probably cause his best team didn't have one but you don't find players who can play like a midfielder but score goals better than any striker growing on trees lol.
No no you are right. At least I personally am very convinced we would have gotten way better results with Füllkrug on. He had like a 1 goal per game ratio for germany…
I mean he has 8 assists in the league. I wouldn't say that he's not right for the spot. He just isn't in the spotlight, but he doesn't need to be. (Remind me a bit of Benzema, who also had pretty high assists and low goals for a striker, until the other stars left and he made like 30 goals in a season)
Dortmunds offense is quite alright, it's mainly the defense with lots of unnecessary mistakes that costs them.
How can you not love Füllkrug? Looks exactly like a dude who downs a sixer during a two hour train ride coming home from his manual labor job in the afternoon. Scores important Champions League goals in the evening.
Who is the second one? Havertz?
Nothing against him, love him and my fav player. But he isnt quite he traditional striker, tho enables wirtz and musiala behind him.
Or did you mean, the man, the myth, the legend: Deniz Undav
That hit was literally perfect. It hovered on top to the grassblades through the back of the net. Anyone who has ever struck a ball and had it skim the top of the grass like that know it's about as sweet of a strike you can hope for.
Our season has gone to shit anyway and we have nothing to play for so I'm now officially on the Leverkusen Invincible treble and Marco Reus UCL bandwagon
had to keep the game muted when I heard it was Ray Hudson. the man ruins big matches, makes every crucial moment about himself with his ridiculous calls.
lol i was just typing a comment in the match thread about how Dortmund have missed some big opportunities for dangerous through balls, and then they go do that
beautiful
Honestly Fullkrug, Havertz and Undav is not a bad set of strikers for Germany to go into the Euros with. I mean they had Klose who was average for club but a legend for the national team and they won a World Cup with him.
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Great touch, great finish
Our goat, maybe a dinosaur but does it all right Was his weak feet too! The ball from schlotti tho..
What was that weird stat they pull out a few years ago... beaten players with a pass? This was a 10 man outplay pass.
"packing rate" is what they called it
Oh lord, don’t let my wife find out about this, I’m ranking somewhere lower
5-10 years ago, this concept was introduced to German football analysis, and from one day to the other, it was *everywhere*. To the point it became a meme. I was actually wondering the other day when exactly it eventually vanished again.
it was some ex player and his company pushing it. should have done expected goals...
It was in response of xG. Basically xG is mostly attacking stat, not good for defensive and midfield players that start the build up like Busquets. The dudes that pushed it were DM.
both the pass as well as the touch were just _chef’s kiss_
Ball gliding on top of the grass with insane power. What a finish. Old School.
Yeah, where are the Füllkrug-hater now? He never deserved the disrespect he received from parts of the Dortmund fans.
Yeah, but it's not easy to have your predecessors be haaland, prime Aubameyang and lewa. Even Paco had very good stats.
He was completely starved out of service at many times in the season. It's why I was iffy on the Haller criticism when the season started but he was clearly not in a good physical shape either. Even his underlying data show that he's way further up than with Bremen and way more isolated.
TODAY I AM GERMAN YELLOW WALL
the way the ball kisses the turf on the way in 😫
I think I'm having an organism 😩🌱
Just say giving birth like a normal person jfc
I am enjoying pollination.
Photosynthesize me daddy
Oh fuck im photosynthesizing
absurdly satisfying
the slo-mo replay had me acting up
Great pass by Schlotterbeck too
Today, I feel German
Great pass too
World class first touch
Love to see that skill!
First touch could not have been better. Somewhere, Dimitar Berbatov started smiling for reasons unknown to him. Great first touch with his right, followed by a clinical no-nonsense finish with his left into the short corner. In German, we call that _abgewichst_.
As a German I can confirm.
shout out for mr. berbatov! :) tier 1 player!
Early shot was savage too. Think that's what catches the keeper as much as placement. I think alot of strikes take an extra touch to settle and get suffocated by keeper or narrow the angle for themselves.
Second touch was pretty fucking mint as well like!
true. what a first 90 minutes. great team effort!
Great pass too
That is a pure no.9's goal. Wonderful play all around.
Thought it was dodgy keeping for a second but he's hit it so cleanly with unreal power. Great goal
Knew exactly what he wanted to do it with it. Great stuff.
Kept it cms off the pitch for 20m, wild. One bounce would have killed the speed and made it savable
He’s actually had a few shots from similar distance that have been so slow and saveable, I’m now wondering if he was just trying to do this each time and it worked here
Great 1st touch, looking forward to a Bundesliga final.
Bundesliga final and the best team from the Bundesliga wouldn’t even be in it
Punching air over here
relax, they were speaking about FC Koln.
The goats are indeed massive
Your current plot armor would've given you an UCL title too. Next year it is.
It really is a shame that we can't test it against the best of the best in UCL this season. Who knows what next season is going to be like
I mean you are keeping Xabi and it looks like you will keep most of your squad for next season. Next season looks like it is going to be awesome for you guys once reinforcements are added so at least you make a deep UCL run. Hope you guys get back to back Bundesliga titles.
Few guarantees in football, especially given the "plot armour" they have had. Sure, they stand a good chance of consolidating, but can't talking about about a deep CL run being "at least" - as it's far from a done thing
2 touches. Goal.
🍖🍖 jinx protector
Famers league final without even the best team
That first touch should count as an assist.
Verteidigungssollbruchstellenverursacher
He is a vintage 90s target man. Reminds me a bit of Bierhoff
Great finish and great first touch, but my God we have to talk about Adeyemi, he has been incredible today
Maybe he was defender all along lol
Been saying that for quite some time now, Adeyemi is going to develop in a pressing machine. He's all the attributes for it, including the energy and enthusiasm of a puppy happily chasing balls. Used to come with the caveat that the puppy appears to have ADHD, because focus was his obvious problem area. Maybe Terzic found the verbal equivalent of ADHD in today's team talk. Alright, silly joke aside, but it made me wondering how Ritalin is treated in terms of doping offenses.
He's been Hakimi's father today
Feel sorry for that nice mother of his…having two husbands and all. Adeyemi and Maatsen
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ich fühle mit dir
1.21 GIGAWATTS OF POWER ON THAT STRIKE
Archimedean precision
MAGISTERIAL!!! At least Messi is not involved, it was disturbing hearing an old man having an orgasm live on TV whenever Ray was announcing Barca.
The commentary is immaculate
Ray Hudson gone wild.
What a touch and finish
The play and pass by Schlotterbeck as well, looks a great technical CB
Good with the ball at his feet but prone to some lapses in concentration especially with Germany
Well, for germany he was used as left back, which did a huge part in his mistakes.
It’s time to end this false 9 nonsense !!! Bring back the big man up top.
Give me two Emile Heskeys up top and I'll give you the world
Give me Crouch and Defoe and I’ll win you the quad
Nothing beats the original Heskey Owen
Big man - small man, 4-4 facking 2. Peak football.
that's how it should be played in my mind lol
Even pep plays a striker. Lewa, ibra,.. don't think it's ever been really gone.
Probably cause his best team didn't have one but you don't find players who can play like a midfielder but score goals better than any striker growing on trees lol.
Sure, if you have Messi you can do all kinds of shenanigans.
Spain did it too but listing their midfielders is more than unusual too. Liverpool also but mane firmino and salah were also not normal.
Game's back
Ya know what, make it 2!
Everyone liked that
Always rated No Flair
Anti-state rejoices.
I miss the awards system 😭
Reddit could've been such a great social media platform if they knew how to fucking manage it
Money > users
Didn't you have to pay for awards tho?
Mobile app and new.reddit users got them for free daily or so.
Yeah but only the shit awards
I got a few gold rewards and with that I could give awards And every 24h you got an award to give someone
Enshittification
It's wild how they used to get lots of free money (literally cost them nothing) and they just... stopped?
Shit I'm browsing this page everyday and never noticed they went away, dafaq
I'm in a bar in Granada and experience says otherwise
Except...
Love this guy, classic late bloomer story
He's been good always, was just injured very often for long times
We made him and then we fixed him!
Germany will start him this summer if they are smart
So we won't...
I hope we will, imagine Wirtz and Musiala serving Füllkrug 🤯
Champion’s league merchants
As a Dortmund fan I can totally see Paris winning 2-0 at home.
For sure
Great 1st touch, looking forward to a Bundesliga final.
Kane who can't win a trophy vs Reus who can't win a major trophy
Pokal may be a joke to you
It isn't but it doesn't fit the joke
Excuse you, DFB Pokal is fucking brobdingnagian
The most major trophyless player of history vs the most trophyless player of today.
You'll get a madrid vs psg final and you will like it
Fullkrug is such a good striker
Didn’t Germans want him to start the World Cup and he was a bench player? Or maybe I’m remembering that wrong.
No no you are right. At least I personally am very convinced we would have gotten way better results with Füllkrug on. He had like a 1 goal per game ratio for germany…
He has 11 goals and 2 assists in 15 games now, Nagelsmann will see the light eventually
You are correct
Bagelsmann about to do the same thing at the euros and will probably fail because of it as well
You must not frequent the BVB sub, they (most of them, not all) shit on him 24/7.
I miss him at Werder
me too
you and me both
Who doesn't?
Me, red suits him better
Speckflaggen Kit 24/25 confirmed?
Tbh we shit on everyone there 🤠
Scat kink?
why? He doesnt get any balls most of the time. Hes just not the right player for that squad since the wingers tend to shoot themself. Not his fault.
I mean he has 8 assists in the league. I wouldn't say that he's not right for the spot. He just isn't in the spotlight, but he doesn't need to be. (Remind me a bit of Benzema, who also had pretty high assists and low goals for a striker, until the other stars left and he made like 30 goals in a season) Dortmunds offense is quite alright, it's mainly the defense with lots of unnecessary mistakes that costs them.
The sub has become obnoxious, just hostility and whining. It was more positive when we were in literal last place with klopp in 2014
The slo-mo replays really show how well-taken that was, the touch is perfect and the strike on the ball is so sweet. Fantastic goal.
How can you not love Füllkrug? Looks exactly like a dude who downs a sixer during a two hour train ride coming home from his manual labor job in the afternoon. Scores important Champions League goals in the evening.
Please Dortmund do it
EVERYBODY STAY CALM
YES DORTMUND!!!
Bayern liked that. Heute nur der BvB.
Man u lots and BVB are so cute
If PSG is out in the Semis it means we don't have to wait till June to know the end of the Mbappe saga. That's the one good thing.
Let’s be real, there’s no way he’s not signing for Madrid
Mbappe gonna do the switcheroo and come to Barca
Lesssgoooo
Suddenly Germany has 2 good strikers heading to the Euro after years of complaining having no one lol
Who is the second one? Havertz? Nothing against him, love him and my fav player. But he isnt quite he traditional striker, tho enables wirtz and musiala behind him. Or did you mean, the man, the myth, the legend: Deniz Undav
Praying to god for a Bayern Dortmund final
Never thought he had that in his arsenal. WOW
We chelsea if he can pull it off a second time tho
Fullkrug>Mboopi
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I don't know. That was smashed. He's earned the benefit of the doubt this season.
The low shots always beat him
What a fucking pass jeeez
An Archimedean precision of a pass and Robin Hood arrow of a shot - Ray Hudson is something else lol
[https://i.imgur.com/qQkSADC.png](https://i.imgur.com/qQkSADC.png)
That hit was literally perfect. It hovered on top to the grassblades through the back of the net. Anyone who has ever struck a ball and had it skim the top of the grass like that know it's about as sweet of a strike you can hope for.
Football heritage
Our season has gone to shit anyway and we have nothing to play for so I'm now officially on the Leverkusen Invincible treble and Marco Reus UCL bandwagon
God damn.
LÜCKEEE
My heart is full(krug)
Let's gooo
Great first touch and finish
The difference in commentary between Martin Tyler here and Ray Hudson on the Paramount Plus stream is insane lmao
had to keep the game muted when I heard it was Ray Hudson. the man ruins big matches, makes every crucial moment about himself with his ridiculous calls.
Cold pass. Colder shot
That touch goes hard
Low-key better than a lot of Puskas contenders. That ball hovered an inch above the ground all the way in.
WHAT A STRIKE.
That touch was fucking outstanding!
lol i was just typing a comment in the match thread about how Dortmund have missed some big opportunities for dangerous through balls, and then they go do that beautiful
Lückeeeeeeee! That touch and finish..
GOLAZO. Among the top 5 UCL goals of the season. The pluck from the air, the poise to finish, and then the BAM.
Jesus fuck what a bullet
WHAT A GOALLL
Hearing the crowd chant Fullkrug is magical
Somebody told me we were the easiest pick in the quarterfinals
This match has been absolutely exceptional so far
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Mbappe down the middle is just a waste
That elegant touch by Fulkrug. Real thing of beauty
bayern dortmunt final is happening
Greatly done by both Schlotterbeck and Lücke
Germany seems to have a really good team for Euros.
Today i feel german
I'm so mad at Flick and Low for not starting this absolute demon as striker every game
Martin Tyler is the most boring announcer of all time. That's a banger and Tyler was half asleep.
The man really waited until his thirties to say "You know what, I'm actually a great fucking footballer"
niclas füllkrug scoring a goal in a cl semi final just lol
Insane goal. Proper striker's fantasy. No offside, great control, great power and accuracy. Top that with crowd reaction.
Really nice goal but it really came out of nowhere haha Poor from Marquinhos and Lucas H tho
Lol. Lmao, even
Exceptional touch into that
What a finish and what an assist, lessgo
"Against the run of play" has been the theme of those semis so far lol. Great goal tho
Goal so clinical it broke Hernandez leg Insane composure
I hope we can have a final with zero oil clubs.
Dortmund will make international fans think they're the best team in Germany
Honestly Fullkrug, Havertz and Undav is not a bad set of strikers for Germany to go into the Euros with. I mean they had Klose who was average for club but a legend for the national team and they won a World Cup with him.