Archive for June, 2024
DIE ZEIT-Umfrage zur EM
Das Tippspiel in der Kanzlei habe ich heuer leider verpasst. Vor der Deadline einfach nicht die Zeit aufgebracht, die Ergebnisse zu tippen und abzugeben. Und nun hat das erste Spiel schon stattgefunden, Deutschland ließ – wieder einmal enttäuschenden – Schotten keine Chance, gewann 5:1 (3:0). Jetzt auf 🇩🇪 als Europameister tippen? Das ist verfrüht, könnte ja sein, dass sie gegen Österreich ausscheiden. Wenn wir uns nach der Siegesserie in der Vorbereitung nur nicht überschätzen! Und Alaba ist auch verletzt, im Schlosshotel in Berlin Grünewald aber immerhin als “non playing captain” dabei wie bei Real Madrids Champions League-Sieg in London… Am Montag steigt das österreichische Team gegen Frankreich, einen der Favoriten (mit Mbappé, Alabas künftigem Kollegen bei Real), in das Turnier ein. Ralf Rangnick wird das Team sicher gut einstellen und Baumgartner wieder ein frühes Tor machen!
Auf England 🏴 würde ich nicht tippen. Aber wer weiß…
“I (don’t) dare to make a prediction: it can go either way!”
Update: Baumgartner traf leider nicht gegen Frankreich, dafür aber Wöber in’s eigene Tor – Österreich verlor sein EM-Auftaktspiel gegen Frankreich 0:1.
Vier für 2024
Der SK Rapid stellt die meisten Spieler im EM-Kader von Ralph Rangnick für die Euro ‘24 in Deutschland: Hedl, Querfeld, Seidl und Grüll. Marco Grüll wechselt allerdings ab Juli zu Werder Bremen und auf Leo Querfelds Abgang in diesem Sommer muss man sich wohl auch einstellen. Ein Teamspieler verdient auf der Insel sein Geld: Andreas Weimann von West Brom.
TOR: Niklas HEDL (SK Rapid; 1 Länderspiel), Heinz LINDNER (Royale Union Saint-Gilloise/BEL; 36), Patrick PENTZ (Bröndby IF/DEN; 6)
VERTEIDIGUNG: Flavius DANILIUC (FC Red Bull Salzburg; 2/0), Kevin DANSO (RC Lens/FRA; 19/0), Philipp LIENHART (SC Freiburg/GER; 20/1), Phillipp MWENE (1. FSV Mainz 05/GER; 11/0), Stefan POSCH (FC Bologna/ITA; 31/1), Leopold QUERFELD (SK Rapid; 2/0), Gernot TRAUNER (Feyenoord Rotterdam/NED; 10/1), Maximilian WÖBER (Borussia Mönchengladbach/GER; 24/0)
MITTELFELD: Christoph BAUMGARTNER (RB Leipzig/GER; 37/14), Florian GRILLITSCH (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim/GER; 42/1), Marco GRÜLL (SK Rapid; 5/0), Florian KAINZ (1. FC Köln/GER; 27/1), Konrad LAIMER (FC Bayern München/GER; 35/4), Alexander PRASS (SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz; 5/0), Marcel SABITZER (Borussia Dortmund/GER; 78/17), Romano SCHMID (SV Werder Bremen/GER; 10/0), Matthias SEIDL (SK Rapid; 3/0), Nicolas SEIWALD (RB Leipzig/GER; 23/0), Patrick WIMMER (VfL Wolfsburg/GER; 11/1)
STURM: Marko ARNAUTOVIC (Inter Mailand/ITA; 112/36), Maximilian ENTRUP (TSV Egger Glas Hartberg; 3/1), Michael GREGORITSCH (SC Freiburg/GER; 54/15), Andreas WEIMANN (West Bromwich Albion/ENG; 24/2)
VAR Premier League Statement
Premier League clubs voted on Thursday 6 June 2024 against Wolves’ proposal to abolish VAR and are in favour of continuing to operate VAR in the Premier League. While VAR produces more accurate decision making, it was agreed that improvements should be made for the benefit of the game and supporters.
As part of thorough discussions at the Annual General Meeting, it was agreed that PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited), the Premier League and clubs all have important roles to play in improving the system and its reputation. As part of ongoing work to improve VAR, six key areas were focussed on as part of discussions with clubs:
- Maintaining a high threshold for VAR intervention to deliver greater consistency and less interruptions to the flow of the game.
- Reducing delays to the game, primarily through the introduction of Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) and the maintained high threshold for VAR intervention.
- Improving fan experience through a reduction in the delays, in-stadium announcements from referees after a post-VAR change of decision and where possible, an enhanced offering of big screen replays to include all VAR interventions.
- Working with PGMOL on the implementation of more robust VAR training to improve consistency, including an emphasis on speed of process while preserving accuracy.
- Increasing transparency and communication around VAR – including expanded communications from Premier League Match Centre and through broadcast programming such as Match Officials Mic’d Up.
- The delivery of a fan and stakeholder VAR communication campaign, which will seek to further clarify VAR’s role in the game to participants and supporters.
It was confirmed in April that SAOT will be introduced in the autumn of 2024.The technology will provide quicker and consistent placement of the virtual offside line, based on optical player tracking, and will produce high-quality broadcast graphics to ensure an enhanced in-stadium and broadcast experience for supporters.
The Premier League and PGMOL will continue to lobby IFAB (International Football Association Board) to allow greater flexibility in the Laws of the Game to allow live video and audio broadcast during VAR reviews.
An expected winner
Real Madrid 2 Borussia Dortmund 0
Real stumbled in the first half of this year’s Champions League final against Borussia in London Wembley. In a dreadful first-half performance they were spooked by Dortmund’s pace and intensity, living on their nerves as they somehow got to half-time level.
The very lively Karim Adeyemi spurned glorious chances, Niclas Fülllkrug saw his shot bounce back from the inside of the post and Sabitzer‘s long range shot was saved by Courtois.
And the longer Dortmund couldn’t score, the sense of inevitability that Real would survive and prevail was growing. Real (still without injured David Alaba, albeit sitting on the substitutes‘ bench) looked deep in trouble, as they did against Manchester City in the quarter-finals, and Bayern Munich in the last four. But with still 0-0 after more than seventy minutes, the inevitable happened:
Carvajal met Toni Kroos’ corner to glance a header beyond Swiss keeper Gregor Kobel and the hand of defender Mats Hummels (74‘), and Vinicius Jr swiftly added a second (83‘). Füllkrug thought he had pulled a goal back with a powerful header to make it 1-2, but the goal was rightly ruled out because of offside.
So in the end, Real Madrid rode their luck and overcame the outstanding challenge from Borussia Dortmund to win the Champions League again, and Dortmund lost their second Wembley final after 2013 when they were defeated by Bayern Munich.
It was Real‘s fifteenth win of the European Cup of Champions altogether, and their ninth since the competition has been reshaped and renamed as Champions League in 1992. it was a highly thrilling final, but the outcome somehow was inevitable, and still Real haven’t lost any of their Champions League finals in 43 years.
Carlo Ancelotti is the most successful manager in Champions League history. He now has won the trophy a record-breaking seven times as coach (five) and player (twice). However, there are two finals which still haunt him to this day. Ancelotti, 64, was manager of AC Milan when they lost to Liverpool in Istanbul in 2005 in arguably the most dramatic final of all time, when Milan was 3-0 up at half time, but Liverpool, managed by Rafa Benitez, equalised in the second half and won the penalty shoot-out. Ancelotti was also part of the Roma squad which lost to Liverpool in the 1984 final, although he missed the game itself through injury. But since then, Ancelotti who describes his management style as “quiet leadership” in his book, never had to taste defeat in any Champoins League final! Chapeau!
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