After the cup in Leipzig and the continuation of the negative series, Hoffenheim goalkeeper Oliver Baumann sounds the alarm.
Conceded “abnormal goals”: Hoffenheim’s keeper Oliver Baumann.
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The first shot on goal – inside. Sounds pretty familiar to Oliver Baumann. Just like the episode after the goal to make it 2-1 on Wednesday evening. “We’ll come back and score another goal,” Hoffenheim’s goalkeeper was reminded of the identical feature film on the previous Saturday against Gladbach (1: 4), “it’s been like this for quite a while, far too long, it can’t be anymore. ”
The cup-off joins the already worryingly long negative series of Hoffenheim, who are now nine competitive games without a win. The last success came in the cup in the second round in mid-October against Schalke (5:1). Four days earlier, the battered Kraichgauer had scored the last three in the league, also against Schalke (3-0).
We have to develop because we’re almost always losing.
TSG has slipped dangerously in the table and is now without any sense of achievement before the extremely important and trend-setting basement duel at VfL Bochum, which is only three points behind in the relegation place. “Now there’s an extremely important game coming up, we have to be very careful, we’re in a relegation battle, we’re in there and we have to get out of there as soon as possible,” warned the captain and scolded: “We have to develop because we’re almost only on the Losing, that gets on my nerves, we have to stop that,” said the 32-year-old, “sometimes we get abnormal goals, we get them too easily, we have to stop that extremely quickly, otherwise we’ll get into real trouble.”
As is so often the case in Leipzig, the opponent’s first attempt landed in the net. Ihlas Bebou had escorted Emil Forsberg rather than seriously preventing the Swedes from finishing. And after the goal from Kasper Dolberg’s premiere goal for TSG, it didn’t take long for the knockout. “We were brave and decent in the game, but a pass into the interface and Werner stands in front of me and slams him into the corner, that’s abnormal and disappointing,” Baumann quarreled. Basically, “the team is definitely intact.”
Debutant Delaney: “The beautiful football comes later”
Just two days after his commitment, Bundesliga returnee Thomas Delaney, who, like Dolberg, is on loan from Sevilla FC until the summer, made his debut in the second half. “I want to help the club with intensity and passion,” explained the 32-year-old, who quickly realized that “self-confidence and body language are missing, beautiful football comes later.”
A sense of achievement is urgently needed, but TSG simply lacks the necessary stability, which Delaney and John Anthony Brooks, who was brought in from Benfica last week, were unable to generate. “We mustn’t go crazy anyway, but it’s time, now there’s an extremely important game. We need development and security by allowing little,” demands Baumann, “it’s good for us that the two are there, so experience comes with it.” Not so unimportant in the relegation battle
