So, here's where we stand going into the winter break, kiddos. We've still got the DFB Pokal match up tomorrow but the Bundesliga is closed for the holidays.
I had the good fortune of being at Bayern - Gladbach although unfortunately, I missed out on the super rad laser show as my dad had turned into a snowman over the course of the 90+ minutes and talked me into leaving so that he may defrost.
It wasn't exactly our best match. But I'm hesitant to come out and complain the way many others have about how terrible we played because all in all, it was an entertaining match from start to finish. Some rubbish referee calls but I'm not gonna blame our misfortune on the ref because that would be silly. What I took away from this match is that we didn't give up where we would have a season ago. We've gone 1-0 down to Gladbach before and let it stay that way. On Friday night, we didn't.
Some stand outs:
♣ Franck Ribery was outstanding. Do I say this too often? Well.
♣ Sometimes Manuel Neuer is solid as a rock and I am never worried and sometimes he plays games like this where I am tempted to scream: THE BOX IS YOUR HOME. ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOUR HOME?
♣ those good five minutes when Martinez was down and then he got up and stumbled over onto the sidelines were terrifying. For those who missed it, he got an elbow to the face and could not see out of his left eye for quite some time, but rumor has it that he's just fine right now. Deep sigh of relief all around.
♣ Mandzukic has matches where he's excellent and then he has matches where he has very little impact at all. This was one of the latter.
♣ Shaqiri Shaqiri Shaqiri
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