Lucien Favre

Tactical Analysis: Did A Birthday Bash Cost Hertha Saturday?

by Double Pivot on March 23, 2009 · 3 comments

Last Thurs­day, Lucien Favre sus­pended his right winger Patrick Ebert indef­i­nitely. While the rea­son for the sus­pen­sion is that Ebert was out until 3 AM cel­e­brat­ing his birth­day, which breaks team cur­few rules; there is a big­ger story is that dur­ing his drunken walk home (points for walk­ing), there is every indi­ca­tion that Ebert along […]

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The Set: Arminia 1–1 Hertha Berlin

by Double Pivot on February 6, 2009 · 2 comments

Arminia Biele­feld gained a point and a lit­tle breath­ing room in their fight to stay up this year. Things didn’t start brightly when their defend­ers fell asleep and allowed Andriy Voronin to ghost onto a ball deliv­ered by keeper Jaroslav Drobny and slot home a 13′ lead. They lev­eled in the 40′ when right back […]

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die Tabelle lügen nicht! Preview

by Double Pivot on August 14, 2008 · 13 comments

1st Schalke What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the off­spring. What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end. What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the […]

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Bundesliga Coaches Unanimously Choose Bayern as Preseason Favorites

by Mark on July 29, 2008 · 2 comments

The Deutsche Presse Agen­tur released a poll yes­ter­day about pre­dic­tions for the upcom­ing sea­son. Bay­ern Munich was the unan­i­mous favorite of Bun­desliga coaches to repeat as cham­pi­ons. The most com­mon rea­son given was the qual­ity of Jür­gen Klinsmann’s squad. What fol­lows is a hasty trans­la­tion of what each of the 18 gaffers had to say […]

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