Homeworked

Important away victory for our works team in Augsburg, our favourite opponent in the league. Playfully the performance was certainly not on the highest level, but what is not, that can still become.

It's important that nobody injured themselves and Weiser, Sinkgraven and Paulinho got playing practice. Augsburg is certainly not the measure of all things, but you have to make the three-way anyway.

The next two games have it a little bit in themselves. After the unnecessary home defeat against Moscow, we are under pressure in the Champions League. If Ronaldo and Co then run up against us, then we probably won't have these high ball possession shares. And next Saturday the cops will be our guests in the BayArena. Until yesterday Leipzig was the dominant team in the league, but after today's home defeat against Schalke, the hyped championship candidate is back on the ground.

Let's go werkself.

A disappointing week at all

Even though the Werkself have beaten weak unioners 2-0 today, the whole week after the defeat against the BVB can be considered disappointing. Of course, the low point on Wednesday was the home defeat against Lok Moscow. If you already lose at home against the supposedly weakest opponent in the group, then it is unfortunately already as sure as the Amen in the church that you will not hibernate internationally.

Union was an obligatory victory. Next week we are going to Augsburg. Actually our favourite opponent away, especially since the Werkself has never lost there. But a draw is not enough. The team has to get back on track. That's why it's good that Dragovic and above all Alario convinced us today and the substitutions of Weiser and Paulinho also show that stronger rocking is possible. But be it as it may, the disappointment about the very, very weak international appearance still prevails.

On days like this

On days like these, so the Toten Hosen, you wish for infinity. Our game was too imprecise and then you can't win in Dortmund. 66% possession of the ball shows the statistics, a higher mileage of our team and 12 shots on goal of the Werkself only 9 of the Dortmund opposed. That doesn't help anything, because the 0:4 defeat was all in all a rough gossip, there is nothing to whitewash.

There are such match days in the year, even if they do more than hurt. I only hope that the team will learn the lessons, because the next two home games against Lok Moscow in the Champions League and against Union Berlin are compulsory threesomes.

So cheer up and how do the Toten Hosen say: Get up when you're on the ground. And the Werkself will get up, for sure.

A good day or a bad day?

Even 24 hours after the at first sight disappointing 0:0 against Hoffenheim I'm not sure if it was a good or a bad day yesterday.

On the positive side, our boys played to zero. On the negative side, of course, we didn't net against Hoffenheim. It's positive that Wolfsburg left feathers at home against Paderborn and the Dortmunder with the defeat in Union. Negative is that the cans impressive with a threesome in Gladbach draw their rounds and the Bayern Mainz also shoot 6:1 fast from the stadium.

We should not look at the rest. We should see positively that we are still unbeaten after three match days. 76% ball possession, 19:0 corners and 20:6 goal shots draw a positive picture, but with the result of 0:0 then not. If we are honest, we have to admit that in the first 60 minutes we didn't find the means to break the defensive bar. And more realistically we should assume that Hoffenheim will not be the only opponent in the season who will seek his salvation in the BayArena on the defensive. And one thing remains to be said, of course: Our yield after standards, in particular corners must improve.

Never endangered away victory in Düsseldorf

On days like these, it's quite enough to concentrate on the Bundesliga for just 45 minutes and still take the three-way home with you.  Bayer made use of his clear dominance in the first round after his early lead and added two more points. Even after the restart of the game, the management of the results didn't endanger the Werkself against a long time too harmless Fortuna.

Games against a potential relegator are the time of the point collecting, that was already last week against Paderborn so and now also against Düsseldorf. We all remember that the BVB probably missed last year's championship by losing to Düsseldorf when just before Christmas they thought they would go there to shoot down the home team.

But we must not overestimate this victory, even if it's good that much more worked out than a week ago. But three points are three points that no one can take away from us, no more and no less.

Wild bird victory

Of course, it has to be said that the home win against the promoted "Attacke Paderborn" was all in all happy. But still the three points that stay with us count. Statistically, it's also the first trio at the start of the season since 2015.

I believe that these three points will do us good in the course of the season. Let's all remember the carelessly wasted home points in the past years. Home defeat against Darmstadt, 2014 only 2:2 draw against Paderborn, to say nothing of the dull 2:2 in the past season against the relegated Hanover as Karim Bellarabi still compensated in the 93rd.

Yes, it did not fit also this time still everything. And Julian Baumgartlinger and Jonathan Tah know exactly that they belong to the accomplices in the conceding goals. But the old saying is: If you're not standing safely in the back, then you have to do one more in the front. And that's exactly what we did, no more and no less. And so it was a wild victory, and victory is victory.

Bayer moved on

Cup is not and will not remain a beautiful game. In the first round, you and your team are not yet in the game, so all you have to do is see that you are a Siger and that your logo is back in the pot for the next draw.

We won 4:1 in Aachen, not a brilliant performance, but that's not what it's all about. The pessimists already argued that will be kicked out, especially after the last of course not satisfying and convincing test match results. But please again: Please also have a look at the line-up at the test matches and then the expert will quickly recognize that our trainer has given many youngsters playing practice what I also consider to be absolutely right.

We have moved on, that's what counts. And it is important to have a noticeably better start to the season than last year, because I don't want to run after the top again the whole year. Our boys can and must play at the front, the team has the quality and I am sure that they will show it starting with the home game against Paderborn next Saturday.