“What is with this team…” Sasha moaned, head down on the table. The only thing particularly worrying about this situation was that she was sober.
You expecting the bottom to fall out? Up,” Paul slid a plate of food under her as she sat up
“No. Yes. No. They are doing good, it’s just that…”
“It’s just that if someone told twelve year old you fifteen years ago the team you chose to follow would not only be playing in the Bundesliga, but playing Champions League football-” Paul said, until Heinrich cut him off.
“You’d be wondering what you had to eat for that day, or are afraid of waking up and it all being a dream?”
“Yes. No.”
“I get it,” Heinrich said sitting down with his own plate. “No one expected the team to be where it is, least of all us. But at the end of the day, why worry about it. Live in the moment, they are doing well. Enjoy6 the victories, drown the losses in a couple of beers, and decades from now we can be telling our grandkids about how we remembered when Dynamo was in the Bundesliga and doing well. Lord knows all the new fans won’t hang around that long.”
They all looked around. The bar was a bit more crowded than usual, a lot of newer, younger faces.
“Next thing you know they’ll start asking for wine spritzers and “light’ Beer,” Paul said. Sasha shuddered visibly.
“So,” Heinrich said around a mouth full of food. “What’s the RUMINT on who they are going after in the transfer window?
Whatever Dylan MacLennan is, he’s not a first team, top tier striker. When I look at his attributes, he should be, but there has to be something going on behind the scenes, as he just…disappears. I should have fought to keep Mirko Tulli, who spent all of a season at Monaco before signing at Eintracht Frankfurt this season.
Luckily our defense has has been very good, we haven’t been blown out (yet) and we’ve salvaged more than one draw.
August was a decent start, even the Borussia Dortmund game. Neiva got sent off in the 3rd minute on a straight red, but Viveros put us up 1-0 in the 17th minute, and it took a Christopher Essomba goal (because of course it would be one of our former players) who scored in the 93rd minute to get the draw back. Although if I am being honest we should have conceded at least two and maybe a 3rd, but parking the bus really frustrated them.
In what may become a theme of this season, we lost to RB Leipzig due to a Luca Montanaro goal (yet another former player.
Olympiacos did well to earn the draw, but I’d like to think that if Castillo and Tenorio hadn’t gone out with injuries, we would have won.
The draw against Villareal was well earned, Popovic was very good between the sticks, and , from a statistical point of view we were even, so I will take a 0-0 draw.
Arijon Ibrahimović, who is not related to Zlatan, did his best impersonation by scoring a brace in the latter half of the game, first drawing and then scoring the winner that let Bayer win. Scoring 2 against Union on the bounce was nice, as it’s always fun to beat an intercity rival, and then at home, against Man City, we won, 1-0
I still can’t believe it. They absolutely outclassed us, but everyone on our squad who wasn’t an attacking player had a 7.1 or better, and the Jon Jiménez goal was very nice. Turning around and blanking Stuttgart 3-0 was a nice way to end the month.
Needing extra time to beat Union in the Pokal was a gut punch. Drawing against Werder, whose also a relegation candidate, was equally annoying.
Napoli crushed us. I thought we had a chance until Kvarradonna weaved his way past five of my players and scored in the 8th minute. What’s also getting frustrating is that we are starting to “play down” to some of the not so good teams. Take Wolfsburg as an example, they are a bottom of the table club, who beat us 2-0, but then we turn around and beat them 2-0 in the Pokal.
Djurgårdens got an absolute gift of a goal in the 95th to claw the draw back. I logged off and didn’t touch the game for a couple of days., only to be blanked by Bayern. Again. We closed out the year with a good run of games, but again a 96th(!!) minute goal gave Braga the draw. We’d be top 16 if it weren’t for these last two games. .
Annoying as hell.
But not as annoying with MacLennan and his 7 goals.
I think it’s time to start spending some of this money the board has set aside for me to use.
It’s not like I can threaten them with the Wolves job interview to give me more…
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