“Half -full or half empty?” Asked the Dutch reporter. “Halfful,” replied Eindhoven’s chief coach Peter Bosz as quickly as Lucky Luke pulls the Colt. 1: 1 in Leverkusen, in the cave of the Bayer Löwen, this is not a bad result, even if the Rheinische Radubat is currently not roaring as loud as in the past two years. More precisely belonging, it was more of a shy break in the voice on Wednesday evening.
For the Champions League meeting with PSV, the master from the neighboring country, Bayer coach Kaspar Hjulmand Lauter adolescents sent on the lawn, who, like he all started their job in Leverkusen, just a few weeks ago. Together they, the Danish coach in front, formed an international of Bayer-04 football: the 22-year-old Englishman Jarell Quansah stood in the defense; The outposts formed Franz Axel Axel Tape and the Dutch Ernest Poku, 19. In the center of the Argentine Equi Fernández, 23, and German-American Malik Tillman, 23, came together in the center of the Cameroonian Christian Kofane, 19, the injured Patrik Schick. He not only recommended himself as a scorer for representing the middle striker, which was probably missing for weeks.
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“Amazing”, great, was to score the first goal in the European Cup, Kofane said – if you understood it correctly, because he spoke so quietly and shy to the reporters that the meaning of most of his statements could only be guessed. However, it was more important anyway how he was a top of the attack through his appearance. He now provided some arguments that the club appointed him fate as a fate, while he passed Victor Boniface as a loan to Werder Bremen. His team had “A Lot of Touches in the Box”, as Coach Hjulmand emphasized, who prefers to explain himself in English for the time being until his knowledge of German. The busy and movable cofana had had a good part in the numerous ball contacts in Eindhoven’s penalty area – but also in the problems of the offensive.
In the essential moments, “the last punch” was missed, Hjulmand explained before saying what he has said many times in the past few weeks: that he was “very optimistic” with regard to the development of the radical new Bavarian team, and that he believes in their qualities: “IT will come”, it becomes progress. The time, however, that Bayer can meet the claim to a top team again cannot call the trainer. Against Eindhoven, only Alejandro Grimaldo showed top performance at a high level of champions League, who, in the absence of the injured Robert Andrich, acts as a captain and has since, magic of the armband, not only through fine technology, but also with enormous enthusiasm.
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Otherwise, it was mainly the PSV team of the former Leverkusen coach Peter Bosz, who performed strong Bayer football with flowing combinations on Wednesday evening. The Bosz, Hjulmand’s preliminary beforehand in Leverkusen, has left traces in the club as a teacher of an offensive game culture. There was not so much to be seen from his inheritance on Wednesday evening, the new young home side benefited from successful individual actions rather than teamwork. “It was definitely not everything perfect,” said goalkeeper Mark Flekken, but the game also “showed a clear step forward”.
In order to be successful in the current Champions League season-the aim of reaching the K.-O. round-the structure of the new eleven must make accelerated. The next adversaries are Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica Lisbon and Newcastle United. Bayer emerges from the relatively easy start with the opponents of Copenhagen and Eindhoven with rather measly two points, as Hjulmand did not want to deny. “But I believe in the boys,” he said. And at least: After this entertaining football evening, the more often expressed the sentence no longer sounded as long as it was by heart.
