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Episode 66 - Löwball is here
In this episode Justin informs the listeners of the latest news out of Cottaweg including RB Leipzig have acquired a young 20 year old dutchman while Timo Werner and Andre Silva are set to be sold by RB Leipzig in the summer with Oliver Mintzlaff has commented on speculation that Red Bull technical director Mario Gomez will leave for rivals Bayern Munich. We review the correct prediction by the podcast as we won 3-1 on match-day 28 against TSG Hoffenheim, we have a look at player watch players and review all goals scored, we have squad updates, predictions, a preview of match-day 29 in the Bundesliga against VfL Wolfsburg with whom to watch out for plus the shows marquee segment the RBL talk segment and more.
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Transcript
Hello everyone and welcome to RBL Talk.
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:On today's show, we have some club news.
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:We recapped the very first look we got
at Löwball in the Bundesliga with the
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:correct prediction on the podcast with
a three one win against TSG Hoffenheim.
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:I'll preview match day 29 in the
Bundesliga against A VFL Wolfsburg
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:and also in the RBL talk segment.
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:Your listener input on the show.
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:Starting with the Club News for this week,
Leipzig, beat Dortmund and Stuttgart in
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:race for highly rated 20-year-old Ezekiel
Banzuzi has decided to join RB Leipzig
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:from OH Leuven according to Sky Germany.
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:The deal finalized and confirmed
by world renowned football
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:reporter for Brit Sierra Romano.
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:Romano Banzuzi will join Leipzig for
a fee in the region of 16 million
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:Euro at the end of the season.
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:VFB and UND among others have also been
linked with a move for the midfielder.
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:Banzuzi has made five appearances
for the Netherlands under 21 side.
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:Mathias ly the next name
linked to the RB Zi job.
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:Bill reports that the former Red
Bull Salzberg head coach, Mathias
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:Jai, is the next name to be
linked to the vacant RB lab job.
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:The German is currently managing
our Ali in the Saudi Pro League
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:and earns 11 million Euro a year.
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:Which makes him the highest
paid German coach around.
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:However, there's been rumors linking
him with a return to Europe with ex NTUs
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:manager Nu Ri, linked as his replacement.
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:Red Bull Technical Director, Mario
Gomez and RB Labs Sporting director
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:Marcel Shaa, are both said to hold
Jay Sally in high regard, the only
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:issue with him is that he's yet to
win anything major in his career.
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:What works in his favor is the fact that
he's a product of the Red Bull Football
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:School of Thought, the 36-year-old
has been head coach at Salzburg and
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:Development Team Life Ring, as well as
a coach at RBA Zigs at Youth Academy.
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:OT Louv is the interim charge at
Le Zg for the rest of the season.
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:After the sacking of Marco Rosa,
Oliver Glasner and Roger Schmidt
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:have also been linked with the job
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:Timo Werner and Andre Silver set to
be sold by ARB Leipzig in the summer.
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:RB Lab, ZG Fords, Timo Werner, and
Andre Silver are said to be sold
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:in the Summit Transfer Window once
they return from their loan spells.
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:According to kicker lab, ZG
have recently parted ways with
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:the head coach Marco Rosa.
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:However, this will not
change for the future duo.
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:Werner has spent this season on loan
at Tottenham Hot Spur and has played
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:18 times in the Premier League.
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:Unfortunately, during this time,
he hasn't been unable to score
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:a goal and was dropped for the
Europa League squad for January.
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:Lone signing Matthias tell.
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:As for Andre Silver, he signed for
Word of Bremen on loan in January
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:and has appeared in every match, but
has only made four starts according.
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:Two Punes Liga Stats scoring.
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:Just one goal in a four, two loss against
Hamm and glad back from the penalty spot.
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:Labe also have a further two plays
who are currently on loan and may be
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:given a chance to earn a place in the
first team squad during pre-season.
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:That's Midfielder IX maba, who is
currently on loan with Salt Vigo and
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:has been a regular in the LGA side.
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:He's a contract that runs until 2026.
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:The other is Elif Elms, who was sent
out to Torino in January and has
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:scored three goals and six matches.
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:If Torino do not exercise the option to
sign Elms permanently for 17 million Euro,
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:then another chance may be given at Lo
Zg for the North Macedonia International.
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:Leipzig Chief comments on speculation
linking Mario Gomez with Bayan Oliver.
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:SLA has commented on speculation that
Red Bull technical Director Mario Gomez
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:has attracted interest from Bay Munich.
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:Sky Germany recently reported
that by Munich, have expressed an
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:interest in appointing Red Bull
Technical Director Mario Gomez as
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:a management role in the future.
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:However, Oliver Min laugh, red Bull's, CEO
of corporate projects and new investments.
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:Doesn't expect Mario Gomez
to join the Barbarian Giants.
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:Gomez feels very, very
comfortable with us and has just
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:extended his contract from sla.
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:Told Sky Germany.
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:I'm quite sure that Mario Gomez is
not going to Buyin Gomez 39, spent
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:four years at Bain as a player.
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:His contract with Red
Bull runs until:
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:Now it's time to recap our last game.
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:That was the three one win against
TSG Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.
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:Let's start by having a look at the Player
Watch Players first four TSG Hoffenheim.
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:It was Tom Bischoff.
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:Tom played the full 90 minutes,
had 52 touches, three total shots,
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:two on target, and one goal, which
was the opening goal of the game.
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:Made 32 passes at a completion rate of
89%, one to one of seven ground dues.
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:Lost possession nine times.
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:Made two clearances and one in deception.
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:The one football app.
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:He had a match rating of 9.2,
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:but I would've given him a rating of 8.3
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:as he certainly wasn't a man of the match.
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:Plan for a losing side.
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:For RBL, it was Willie Orban.
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:Willie played the full 90 minutes
as well, had 93 touches, made two
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:clearances, lost one of one ground
duels, and won one of one aerial duels.
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:Lost possession four times, made 84
passes at a completion rate of 97%.
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:Made one shot, which was off target.
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:And according to the one football
app, Willie had a match rating of 6.5.
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:However, I would rate him.
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:With a 7.3
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:and it was much better than that.
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:6.5.
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:Now let's recap the game in its entirety
with the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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:Three things we learned, and
then a summary and detailed,
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:starting with the good.
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:We dominated possession 67% to
33%, and we made use of it with
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:more passes, which were forward.
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:535 passes were made of a total of
604 attempted at a 89% accuracy,
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:78% accuracy of passes in the final third.
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:That was 152 of 192.
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:We created 16 shots at goal.
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:We were well disciplined
as no plays were booked.
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:We had 30 touches in the TSG Box
and three fouls in the final third.
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:Won the total duals, 59% to 41,
only dispossessed nine times as
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:a team, much better than previous
weeks when four players had a
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:total of 83, made 50 recoveries.
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:Now, for what we did wrong, the
bad, only a few things here.
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:Committed 10 fouls.
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:Pull from set pieces again.
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:We wasted our eight corners,
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:one arrow, which led to a shot at goal
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:what we did really wrong.
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:The ugly well, that one error
that we led to the goal.
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:When Peter Gal tried passing out
from the back, what was he thinking?
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:Three things we learned.
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:VTSG, hoffenheim.
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:It is only early days, but it appears
that we are playing the real RB
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:football we've come to know and love.
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:Let's see what happens
in the upcoming weeks.
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:Louv isn't afraid to
make substitutes early.
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:46 minute is far earlier than
anything our previous manager did.
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:We are not forced to make a change.
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:And number three, it shows that the
problem with RBL was unfortunately
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:Marco Rosa and his tactics.
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:Or is this just the perk up from a
new manager, which can happen again?
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:The upcoming weeks will tell.
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:RBL came from a goal down the defeat.
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:TSG Hoffenheim three one at the Red
Bull Arena as the club secured the
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:three points in their 300th Bunes
League at Match while keeping their ua.
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:Four Champions League dreams alive.
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:Hoffenheim enjoyed an impressive start
and didn't waste any time attacking RBLs
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:defense, creating multiple chances inside
two minutes, and the visitors continued.
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:Their Boyd start to the contest and
opened the scoring on 11 minutes.
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:Peter gci had direct responsibility in
the opener as his passed out of the back.
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:Fell straight to Bazo.
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:Zina tore who set up
Tom Bischoff 30 yarder.
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:That stunned the hosts.
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:RBL found an equalizer midway through the
first half, and just like the opener, it
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:came as a result of a goalkeeping mistake.
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:This time, the man at Fault was Germany
International Oliver Bauman, who failed to
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:stop a routine header from Benjamin Sesco.
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:A disastrous five minute
stretch for Hoffenheim also
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:saw them reduced to 10 men.
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:When Leo Skii osteo guard was sent off
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:after bringing down Lewis Pender,
he looked to be on the path of a
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:clear goal scoring opportunity.
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:The host took full advantage of the extra
player and grabbed the lead just before
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:the end of the half via Ride or Baku,
who latched onto a loose ball inside
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:the box to fire an unstoppable shot.
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:The left Bowman stranded, which was his
first Bunes Liga goal as a Red Bull.
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:After a slow start to the second half,
Hoffenheim thought they had equalized
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:on the hour mark via own goal from
Ca Leba, but the sequence was ruled
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:out due to an offsite in the buildup.
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:The visitors continued pressing
for a second goal with Bischoff and
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:Andre Kra playing a key role in that.
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:But every time the visitors came close to
equalizing GCI was there to deny them lo
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:Zg, then put the game to bed in the 84th
minute when substitute Yusef Parson scored
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:from his first league goal of the season.
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:Hoffenheim didn't have enough in them
to fashion a comeback and had to settle
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:for yet another loss, meaning they've
won just once in their last six.
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:Bunes Liga matches Drawn three Loss
two, but they still have a four point
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:cushion over the relegation race.
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:RBL bounced back from their lost two.
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:Russian mush and glad back in the
previous round, and while they've won
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:just two of their last six Bundes League
of Matches drawn to lost two, they
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:still depend on themselves to reach the
20 15 20 16 Uua for Champions League.
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:We've just six games to go.
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:It was interesting to hear from
the new gaffer after the game.
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:This is what he had to say
when speaking to reporters.
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:The team did a great job today after being
knocked out of the cup on Wednesday night.
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:There wasn't much time to recover
mentally or physically for today, said
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:Louv before developing deep into the
lack of preparation time for his group.
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:We came straight out of an
intense game against Stuttgart
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:while Hoffenheim were rested.
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:The early goal didn't help chase
any of the tiredness of our legs.
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:That's why I'm even
more proud of the team.
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:The luck that we were missing in
Stuttgart was back on our side today.
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:Louv also shared his opinion about the
difference between his previous posts at
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:Live Zg and working as an interim coach.
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:It's obviously something different
to be here now as the head coach,
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:you're not only a part of the
process, but also the one who needs
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:to take most of the decisions on.
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:It was definitely something special for
me to be back on the sidelines at the
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:Red Bull Arena where I've been able to
experience many special moments before.
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:Now let's talk the goals.
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:The opening goal was scored by TSG
Hoffenheim with the buildup play starting
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:from a throw in down the left hand side.
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:The RBL press was high up the pitch
and Castella Leba struggled with Baer's
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:moona tore pressure, but managed to get
the ball off him with a clean challenge.
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:He.
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:Pastor Peter gci, who
passed back to Buna Tore.
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:He passed to his front left as he faced
the right side of the pitch to Tom Bishop,
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:player watch player for this game, and
he takes a single touch with his left
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:boot to control the ball in front of him.
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:Then takes a strike from
around 30 yards out.
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:The ball, bounces about a meter or
two in front of GCI to his left.
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:And it takes a bubble and it ends up
going past him lowly at around ankle
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:level, into the back of the neck.
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:Now, how could we have prevented this one?
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:It's pretty simple.
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:If a goalkeeper is going to be good
with his feet to play out from the
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:back, think Edison or Allison, he
needs to be able to make those passes.
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:GCI isn't very good at
playing out from the back.
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:And should just clear his lines instead
of being too cute in possession.
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:The second goal of the game and first goal
for RBL was scored in the 24th minute by
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:Benjamin Sesco, assisted by David Round.
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:The buildup play from a corner.
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:Which is the only, the sixth
goal scored from a set peaceful
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:season in the Bundesliga.
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:The ball came from the left
hand side to the center of the
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:box with a header by Sesco.
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:His header went straight to Oliver
Bauman first, who parried it in front
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:of himself, and then the ball looped
up and went to the bottom left corner.
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:Overall, a very well worked corner kick.
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:Good delivery and SS go rising high
is going to beat most defenders.
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:The only thing we could have done
better is on Sesco, and that's getting
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:a better connection and heading it into
the corner without needing the mistake
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:by Bauman, but that's being picky.
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:The third goal of the game and second
for RBL came in the 43rd minute before
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:halftime, scored by Ride or Baku,
his first as a Red Bull in the Bunga.
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:The buildup place started on the left hand
side with David Round in the thick of it
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:again, as we passed the ball around the
back and settled on the left hand side
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:with us playing across the back line,
but still going forward, which was good.
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:As we got it from the right hand side,
Costa and Kovich passed the ball from
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:the right wing with a looping cross,
which hung in the air, which gave time
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:for Stanley in Soki from TSG Hoffenheim.
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:To get to the ball, but with
a heavy touch on his chest.
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:It fell for right or back, who was
in central position and out of his
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:normal position, and struck the ball
well with his left boot hard and low.
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:It went into the bottom left corner,
and all Oliver Bauman could do
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:was watch the ball fly past, and
picked the ball out of the net.
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:The fourth and final goal of the
game and RBLs third and final
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:goal came in the second half.
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:In the 84th minute, Yusef Palon came
onto the pitch in the 81st minute and
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:just three minutes later, USI scored his
first Bull League goal of the season.
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:The buildup play started from a high
press, winning the ball back from
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:a fast break off TSG Hoffenheim.
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:As Chad Bcha put in a good challenge on
Anton, stuck in the middle of the pitch.
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:The ball wasn't controlled well
by be shabu, but it went straight
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:into the path of Chavy Simmons who
ran forward as we caught out the
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:TSG defense with a four on three.
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:In the final third
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:chavy passed around me who passed
the Parson, he took a shot.
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:It was paired by TSG keeper Bauman,
which looped high for Tedium Gomez
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:to header it to the feet of uc.
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:And he shot hard and low.
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:With the help of an under deflection from
Stanley Inaki, it went into the back of
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:the net and the scores ended three one.
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:The best players for RBL were Ca,
Leba, or Lee or Band, Benjamin Esko,
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:Louis App, Pender Costa and Kovich.
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:And Yusef Parson.
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:The best place for TSG Hoffenheim were
Paa Re, Andre Er, and Tom Bischoff.
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:And now for a suspension
and injury list update.
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:Kevin Campbell with an infection is a
high possibility for Saturday's game.
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:He'll be tested during the week
before a selection call is made as
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:Drago Left thigh muscle injury with
tendon damage is making good progress
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:and has rejoined team training.
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:Antonio Noosa Knee is back
on the pitch but is still
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:training individually for now.
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:Xavier Schlager suffered an injury to
his left thigh while and international
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:duty with Austria and is set for
another spell on the sidelines.
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:And Benjamin Henriks, who trn his
achilles tendon is working on his
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:comeback and Leipzig, but we won't
see him until the next season.
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:And now to preview the VFL Wolfsburg
game, Wolfsburg will be without baptized
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:and Bilac Dennis Avaro, Constantinos Kki.
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:Love Ro Mayer and Sebastian
porno with question marks around
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:Mattias Berg and Nicholas Klinger.
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:The wolves are unlucky to be as
far down the table as they are,
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:as they are aside that could
possibly play European football.
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:They need to clean up their fouls.
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:Currently averaging 10.8
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:per game and goals conceded per game 1.5
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:as offensively.
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:They're fine scoring more than
RBL in creating more chances.
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:This is the third time will
play wolfsburg this season.
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:But first in the Volkswagen Arena, di
Rotten Bullen are going to want to get
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:redemption for the five one humiliation
and the biggest loss in the Red Bull
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:Arena back in November last year.
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:Some interesting match.
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:Facts leading into this game
are Wolfsburg having kept a
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:clean sheet in eight matches.
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:Wolfsburg haven't scored in
their last three matches.
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:Wolfsburg have scored more goals
than RBL in the competition.
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:49 to 44.
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:Wolfsburg have won more times at
home against RBL four to three with
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:also three draws being played out.
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:RBL have scored six goals in their last
five matches, and RBL have kept the most
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:clean sheets and the competition with 13
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:on a player.
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:Watch for this game for both sides.
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:It will be for VFO Wolfsburg, David o.
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:The young German Nigerian got
his first senior start for the
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:wolves in the Bundesliga with many
center backs in their squad out.
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:He's great in the challenge and able
to play a pass out from the back.
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:Eyes will be on him during this fixture
to see how he performs against some
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:of the best forwards in the Bundesliga
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:and for RBL Yusef.
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:Our record appearance holder scored
his first goal since the 22nd of
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:January when he scored the winner
in our two one against sporting cp.
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:In the Champions League, you'll see
it looks refreshed and similar to
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:the goal scoring machine of the 20
14 20 15 season, able to score with
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:limited space and creating chances
will you see come from that form and
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:have a big back end of the season
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:while our younger forwards in app,
Penda and Sesco have been struggling,
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:what I'd like to see in this match
with my lineup sign with the 4 4
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:2 flat, as that works right now.
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:So no need to change.
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:But what will change for me is Martine
Vandervoort replacing Peter Gache in
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:goal after making that poor error, which
led to the goal and the only goal for
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:the opposition in our previous fixture.
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:From left to right back line
consisting of David Realm, CA Leba,
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:Willie Orban in Costa and Kovich.
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:He retains his spot at right back.
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:Midfield four of Chavy Simmons Amadou.
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:Hi replacing Nicola Sal and Tedium Gomez.
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:Replacing right or Baku out on
the right hand side upfront.
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:Yusef Palon gains a start over Louis app
Pender and Benjamin Sesco to his right.
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:To summarize those
changes are four changes.
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:Manor Hira Gomez and Parson Inn,
and gci, Sied Baku, and a penda out.
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:But all being demoted to the
bench with a penda at least
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:coming on as an impact substitute.
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:With his pace, he can cause some
issues with tiring defenders.
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:For predictions, Louv Ball
is going to continue and A
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:three N incoming win for RBL.
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:If we play how we did in our
previous fixture, we should be
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:running away comfortable winners.
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:The wolves will make mistakes by giving
away free kicks in dangerous areas.
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:Or by turning the ball over with
Bad Pass execution, averaging 317.7
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:passes per game on target with a 78.6%
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:accuracy rate.
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:We need to take those chances and Goal
Pender to get back to scoring ways.
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:just the two submissions today in
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:episodes coming out during this week.
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:We've got just a couple.
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:So Claude J from the RB fans, discord
says that Win will do us good.
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:Getting fouled might've been
Lewis's biggest contribution today.
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:And haha, Beastie Boys as a
RB stadium, music is wild.
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:Yeah, I did like what you said there
about Lewis getting fouled might have
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:been his biggest contribution and.
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:In a way it sort of was his free
kick in that dangerous area.
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:Really helped stem the flow and give
us the ball back in a sense of the
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:tempo shift change to our favor.
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:We wrestled it back a little bit
from TSG Hoffenheim, and we managed
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:to start getting some goals.
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:That win will definitely
do us good as well.
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:I do agree with that.
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:Hopefully we can use it as a platform
to springboard and go into the top
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:four, although I still don't want
the team to succeed in that sense.
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:As you know, I want the owners to sort
of learn their lesson about sacking
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:a manager so late in the season.
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:It's probably better for the
club if we do still get top four.
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:'cause then that way we
can still attract and keep.
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:Our best players
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:and yeah, Beastie Boys in the RB stadium,
we're one of those clubs where I've
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:seen us being called the Hipster Club.
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:Funny enough, I'm not really
a big fan of the Beastie Boys.
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:I mean, I know that song from the Beastie
Boys and hey, if the fans are enjoying it.
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:It's a really good song.
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:Who cares what other people think?
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:Obviously I know you think it's great.
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:Me, I'm a bit, eh, so, so however,
if everyone in the stadium loves
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:it and people get behind, it
doesn't matter what songs we have.
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:I and RL nine Louie Fan on
Instagram says, finally a win,
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:but not the way we wanted it.
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:We weren't good today, but three
points is all that matters for me.
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:Finally a win, but not
the way we wanted it.
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:I dunno what you mean by that.
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:He said we weren't good today, but
three points is all that matters.
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:Yeah, that's true.
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:Three points is all that matters.
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:But I thought we played quite well.
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:Besides the Peter Kci era, I
didn't really see too many of the
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:problems that we normally have.
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:Yes, they were still there, but I
do think that we were the better
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:side at least after the 25 minute,
half an hour mark of the game.
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:I didn't really see TSG being as
threatening in that game until after that.
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:They were still always in it
until that last use of Paron goal,
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:As a threat maybe to equalize, but we were
definitely the better team on the day.
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:So I'd like for you to let me know
how exactly we weren't good because
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:that's something that I haven't seen
and it's always good to have listeners
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:on the show and other people point out
things that sometimes even I don't see.
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:So please make sure that you let me know.
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:Send that into show@rbltalk.com.
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:Put it on the episode on
Spotify and the comments.
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:Or even just back on the Instagram
post where you posted this or an
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:inbox on Instagram as well even let
me know how you felt that we weren't
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:good, and I'll make sure that it
goes on the next episode as a reply.
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:As always, I'd like to thank the
contributors for their contributions
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:to this episode in RBL Talk all
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:So until next time, I've
been Justin Cruiser.
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