August Recap
So... Before showing the results, let me say we got a little disappointed with our offensive performance in few matches. The dynamic of the tactic made me change little aspects that I hope we can make it work from now one!
As you can see rough start for us. The defeat against Hamburg was kind unfair, we didn't play well enough, but still didn't deserve to lose. Against Kaiserlautern we played the worst football possible. 0.28xg at home it's horrendous (they also had 0.28xg, so the 0-0 was the only possible result). Than we got knocked out of the DFB-Pokal 1st Round against Braunschweig, team that gave us the first win of the season! 4-1 away. The red card for them was a huge benefit for us, made us score 3 goals in a row and get our first win! After that, two solid wins against Kiel and Wehen. Let's rock for the next two months hope we can keep our winning strike!
DATA
Our data is showing some interesting stuff. Defensive wise, you can see we are standing out. The much higher defensive line with a mid block pressure is not giving any space for our opponent to play and I hope we can continue like that. But offensive wise, despite the fact we are scoring slightly above the average you can see you have few shots per game (only 8.20) and only 1.09 non penalty xg. We need to boost our offensive performance. I hope the tactical changes we have done can make some difference at the end!
Also, every 10 matches we are going to take a look in some really deep analysis, to make sure we keep up and find some weaknesses that we can work on and make us a more solid and better team!
TACTICAL CHANGES
We started to see that our Inverted Wingers were occupying the same spot as our wing-backs on the attack. We had to do something so make the team more balanced in the middle so we moved them in. Then, we wanted more players in the box or finding deep spaces behind the defensive line, so Shadow Striker and Attacking Midfielder (Attack) were the roles we think can make the team more creative and aggressive at the same time. Last but not least, our RCB and LCB we made them Ball Playing Defender with the "dribble more" instruction so they run with the ball, engage a defender and then deliver the ball to one of the midfielders. Basically I think they will push up the team with the movement with the ball and that we desperately need!
Conclusion
Lets hope these recently tactical changes can make us a better team. The squad is still learning the way we work and it's been improving lately so we hope we can still keep on the track and get some good and fresh results in the next two months.
Financially we are struggling so we really need to take advantage of our academy, but I think we have a lot of potential to work on!
Looking foward for the next two months!
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