matchreport - 27-Feb-10 - nippon v. german as
Team
German AS
Author
GAS Management
line up
Zafer EvrenTimo Alberts
Dennis Mecklenburg
Hermann Bergmann
Phillip von Pein
Jan Wiechmann
Thomas B. Berner
Jens Taubken
Andre Kohlmann
Volker Giebitz
Michael Klemm
Subs:
Steffen Schacher
Alexander Bursak
Markus Herrlein
Markus Dolenga
Hendrik-Finch Bohne
Coach Sascha Heussler!
Strong Line-up not that strong
After having beaten Nippon 3 weeks ago in the cup match GAS was eager to win this encouter with what was probably the strongest Line-up this season with only two longtime injured regulars missing. But this fact proofed to be the crucial point as the long time injured regular Dr. H took over coaching and so far he is pretty unsuccessfull with the team scoring neither a goal nor winning anything when he was responsible...
So the tactic was to throw him out of coaching if GAS is not leading in the 70th minute! But at that time GAS was leading undeservedly after Andre hammered a ball in from short distance. So Dr. H could stay and so GAS was stupid enough to concede a goal in the very last minute.
Nippon were by far the better team in the first half, in the second GAS took over control until the 75th minute, than it was Nippon again. Looking at the late goal GAS felt as if they lost 2 points, but beeing honest Nippon actually deserved more than one point.
MoM was the Crossbar of the Turf side for saving GAS twice in the first half.
Thanks to Nippon for a surprisingly tough but fair game.