Two clubs with large German faction meet: Roger Schmidt and the PSV Eindhoven have Niko Kovac and the AS Monaco guest. The two former Bundesliga trainers have a long series of ex-Bundesliga players in their caders - including a total of six Germans. How the season for Götze, Nübel & Co. is so far running? An overview.
Mario Götze: The man for Europe
Even without national teams, the offensive player feels well in the Netherlands - and underpinned the beginning of September with his contract extension. That s the best thing that could happen to me in the current phase of my career, Götze said then. Under PSV coach Schmidt he is set as a playmaker, but shiny this season only at the international stage: In two European League games he already collected four gate participations and thus twice as many as in eight inserts in the Eredivisie.
Philipp Max: a long-distance shot for the birthday
Only for a short time the ex-Augsburger was braked at the beginning of the season from an injury, but then quickly conquered his regular seat in the four-chain. This is not as conspicuous as in his first PSV year, he does not play this season, Schmidt assembled the offensive outer chest of an interview in summer a spoon full of defensive. His left foot is still a weapon. At 4: 1 at Sturm Graz last European League Matchday Max met with a fantastic long-distance shot - and on his 28th birthday.
Vincent Müller: transducer between bank and reserve
The 21-year-old goalkeeper from the youth of 1. FC Cologne completes the German group in Eindhoven. Although Müller stands in the bid for the Europa League, but has been used only in the second team of PSV. At the professionals, he is occasionally sitting as a substitutekeeper on the bench, but in the hierarchy is clearly behind Stamkeeper Joel Drommel and Leipzig Lehendung Yvon Mvogo.
Kevin Volland: The embodiment of the Kovac style
At strong preseason, the EM participant can only build conditionally. At the 3: 1 against undertaking St. Etienne, fully delivered a veritable gloss performance, but otherwise he still lacks the self-image: Overall, there are only two goals in nine league games. Nevertheless, the former Hoffenheimer and Leverkusener has a regular site under coach Kovac - also because he is the personalization of its tactical variability. Timely, fully runs as a storm tip in 4-4-2, sometimes as a hanging tip in 3-4-2-1, sometimes as a teher in 4-2-3-1.
Alexander Nübel: The symbol of difficulties
For the loan of Bayern, the start would hardly have been able to run worse in the Principality. The keeper presented himself in his first games uncertain, after a thick Patzer at 0: 2 against Lens he got into the crossfire of the media. His competitor Benjamin Leconte was a bit surprisingly but to Atletico Madrid, so that Nübel continues to enjoy Kovac s trust. In mid-September, the sports line L Equipe wrote from a failed start of the final man who was the symbol of difficulties at the AS. Lastly, Nübel stabilized, however, his team last weekend at the 0: 2 in Lyon with some parades still long in the game.
Ismail Jakobs: Not yet arrived
The U-21 European Champion has not really arrived in Monaco. When Jakob s launched in the 0: 1 in Lorient, Jacob s decisive penalty debt indebted the decisive penalty, yellow-red-endangered later. After that, the ex-Kölner was out of the outside, it did not even make it into the squad twice. Only in early October he returned to the 3-0 against Bordeaux in the starting formation - but on the position of the left-back. For his performance in unfamiliar role, he was criticized by French media despite the As-Victory.
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