The dark side of the Bundesliga is facing a landmark game day. In three direct duels try the last six teams to ease their relegation worries in the table. Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday to meet (15) and FC St. Pauli (16) to each other, and Sunday, the VfB Stuttgart (13) against VfL Wolfsburg (17) on.
The beginning but do on Friday Borussia Monchengladbach (18th) and the 1 FC Kaiserslautern (14). The fact that the Palatinate would come again into this type of predicament, it seemed unthinkable in the winter. Kaiserslautern was one of the surprises of the season so far. With combat, attacking football and a new discovery in the attack, the climbers had clearly moved beyond the expected level.
Srdjan Lakic had scored eleven goals to winter and shot himself with the leaders of the scoring charts. The Croatian was the face of fair success. Today, less than three months later, he is mutated into a symbol of the downturn. There are several reasons for this, the most important but rather mundane: Lakic no longer applies to the gate.
Not a hit, the striker was able to achieve with the nickname "Lucky" in the second half. In statistics, instead of 18 as a red card Game day. That Lakic signed in January, for the coming season with VfL Wolfsburg and also had himself photographed with the jersey of Lower Saxony, also intensified the mood.
Two days later, retired from Kaiserslautern to the second division club Duisburg from the cup. End of February, then retired from the hero of his own fans after a 1-1 draw against Hamburger SV was booed, attacked and bepöbelt desolate. Had to club boss Stefan Kuntz "Two values Fritz Walter's decency and respect were" back then remember the club idol.
Your own player to spit on, had to do with this value. Kuntz himself was not involved in the escalation does not, however, he had the Lakic photo shoot was described as "impertinence" and imposed a fine. Lakin even tried to remain calm. The situation was very difficult to bring it but nothing to get crazy.
"I have a phase where everything is against me," says the 27-year-old: "And then something happened in Frankfurt. Something that is inexplicable. "In the game after the riots Lakis had the great chance to end goalless series. In the final minute of a dreadful 0-0 draw in Frankfurt, he got the ball three yards from the gate on foot.
He was far past the right. "I still know how goals will be made," says Lakin defiantly. These phases run just any strikers. Especially popular are they in the second half. The list of those who finish the season out of breath is long. Most recently, Lakin shares this fate with the Frankfurt Theofanis Gekas, before the winter with 14 goals still best scorer of the league and to date no further been added.
Can compensate for the FC Bayern Miroslav Klose stages of a goalless or Mario Gomez, this is achieved average teams like the FCK or harmony not - the Last Hesse are the second round table. Gekas had previously met in nine games, seven of which were won. In Lakic it was similar. He scored hits in eight games, won six of the Palatinate.
In 47 years of league history were 53 percent of scorers that the shooters list in the winter break, quoted, also at the end of the season ahead. The trend fell. To 1989 were still 60 percent of the striker also confirmed their good performance in the return series. After that it was only 45 percent.
The ratio is tilted in favor of the late starters. Only seven of the last 20 Scorers achieved in the first round more goals than in the second half. Apparently, some attackers suffer more in the main season phase of nervousness. "I have to shoot only one goal, and then everything will get better," says Lakin.
The beginning but do on Friday Borussia Monchengladbach (18th) and the 1 FC Kaiserslautern (14). The fact that the Palatinate would come again into this type of predicament, it seemed unthinkable in the winter. Kaiserslautern was one of the surprises of the season so far. With combat, attacking football and a new discovery in the attack, the climbers had clearly moved beyond the expected level.
Srdjan Lakic had scored eleven goals to winter and shot himself with the leaders of the scoring charts. The Croatian was the face of fair success. Today, less than three months later, he is mutated into a symbol of the downturn. There are several reasons for this, the most important but rather mundane: Lakic no longer applies to the gate.
Not a hit, the striker was able to achieve with the nickname "Lucky" in the second half. In statistics, instead of 18 as a red card Game day. That Lakic signed in January, for the coming season with VfL Wolfsburg and also had himself photographed with the jersey of Lower Saxony, also intensified the mood.
Two days later, retired from Kaiserslautern to the second division club Duisburg from the cup. End of February, then retired from the hero of his own fans after a 1-1 draw against Hamburger SV was booed, attacked and bepöbelt desolate. Had to club boss Stefan Kuntz "Two values Fritz Walter's decency and respect were" back then remember the club idol.
Your own player to spit on, had to do with this value. Kuntz himself was not involved in the escalation does not, however, he had the Lakic photo shoot was described as "impertinence" and imposed a fine. Lakin even tried to remain calm. The situation was very difficult to bring it but nothing to get crazy.
"I have a phase where everything is against me," says the 27-year-old: "And then something happened in Frankfurt. Something that is inexplicable. "In the game after the riots Lakis had the great chance to end goalless series. In the final minute of a dreadful 0-0 draw in Frankfurt, he got the ball three yards from the gate on foot.
He was far past the right. "I still know how goals will be made," says Lakin defiantly. These phases run just any strikers. Especially popular are they in the second half. The list of those who finish the season out of breath is long. Most recently, Lakin shares this fate with the Frankfurt Theofanis Gekas, before the winter with 14 goals still best scorer of the league and to date no further been added.
Can compensate for the FC Bayern Miroslav Klose stages of a goalless or Mario Gomez, this is achieved average teams like the FCK or harmony not - the Last Hesse are the second round table. Gekas had previously met in nine games, seven of which were won. In Lakic it was similar. He scored hits in eight games, won six of the Palatinate.
In 47 years of league history were 53 percent of scorers that the shooters list in the winter break, quoted, also at the end of the season ahead. The trend fell. To 1989 were still 60 percent of the striker also confirmed their good performance in the return series. After that it was only 45 percent.
The ratio is tilted in favor of the late starters. Only seven of the last 20 Scorers achieved in the first round more goals than in the second half. Apparently, some attackers suffer more in the main season phase of nervousness. "I have to shoot only one goal, and then everything will get better," says Lakin.
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