Mid Season Break as arrived!
Mid Season Break has arrived and I want to share some stuff with you so you can keep up our Schalke Rebuild!
Results
League Table
Don´t get tricky by our spot on the League. We are a defeat away to get dropped to like 7th or 6th, which is not that good. It has been a pretty balanced league besides Paderborn that are standing out, invincibles so far (hope we can finish that soon). Our 5 defeats were against Dusseldorf (A), Paderborn (A), Hamburg (A), Karlsruhe (A) and Hertha (H). As you can see, four of them were against top 5 and three were away so I think those are pretty fair games to lose and we weren't smashed at all, it was pretty close tbh. Lets see if we can step up in those matches at home so we can boost ourselfs up on the League.
XPTs wise, we have been the best team. We are not overperforming while some other teams are. Time to turn the table around and overperform as well. To make it happen, we need to score more than our XG and Terodde isn't being that striker. We will keep on with him, try to get as much as possible from him as we are not in conditions to buy any other player!
DATA
Pretty similar data to the one before. We are shooting a little bit more, defensive wise we are still conceding few XG against us and our Non Penalty Expected Goals / 90 improved 0.25 which is quite nice but we need to keep finding solutions to the different amount of game styles we've been facing. Sometimes against a defense of 5 we need to overload the wings, against a 4-4-2 maybe overload the middle, like I said we are trying to find differente spaces in the same playstyle (ball possession) and system (5-2-3).
Squad Performance
Fresh wonderkids from the academy
We needed some fresh ambition and mentality on the team. We had 3 defeats in a row, players were underperforming, complaining, bad morale, disappointed, so we started to look to new players that could give us the energy and the ambition that Schalke needs. Also, as we don't have any money and our academy is top tier, we had to look inside. Also, thise move will alow us to sell some players and balance the finances, specially on the salarey budget as we are living on the edge!
Winter Plans
We need money as I said, so we are looking to find clubs to 6 players. Those players are Tomas Kalas, Paul Seguin, Tobias Mohr, Blendi Idrizi, Sebastian Polter and Pierre-Michael Lasogga. These players combine are earning 355k per month. We don't care for how much we sell them, how we sell them, we just don't want to keep paying to players that are not playing at all.
Games wise, we will play our next match in a month, so during the next month we want to face some teams with 5 atb and 4 atb so we can see how can we change some players roles and take more advantage of opponent spaces. In the last two weeks of the break our goal will be to schedule a lot of easy games so we can boost our morale at the max and be ready to Hamburg (what an upcoming match)!
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