After Verbeek stands on the sideline for Nürnberg he got only one Point from three matches and fall down to the bottom of the table with his team. It looks like that nothing has chanced so far, really? This is not correct so far, if you watch the last two matches you can see a big difference in tactic and style of play from Nürnberg. They use a much more offensive system as in past matches / weeks / years. This is the new style from Coach Verbeek, this is exactly he wants to play in the future. Nevertheless he has not much time because with the fall down to the end of the table he need immediately results to come out of the red zone. Despite the last two defeats to Freiburg 0-3 and Gladbach 1-3 Nürnberg played quit good and they should have received much more than nothing. In both matches they were the better side and they created a lot of good opportunities but it has long been a weakness of Nürnberg to score goals. Additional a clear goal was not counted against Gladbach and therefore it is very hard for them to win matches. Nevertheless the offensive play from them was very good and not even Freiburg or Gladbach had an idea how to play against them. They press from beginning on, both defensive line and midfield row plays very high and let the opponent not much space and time to open their game. This system is very intense and powerful and therefore they were always tired after 70 minutes and both recent opponents took advantage of this. If Coach Verbeek finds the right balance in his system it is very good and Nürnberg looks very good. Even if they can use only a few of their good chances it is also better and the last 20 minutes not such a problem overall. But they are on the right way, despite no wins so far.
Mainz Coach Tuchel always make his homework and he is known for his different systems or tactics he let play. It is always up to the opponent they face. Therefore it can be interesting what he gives his team on the way for the match against bottom side Nürnberg. Is he braves enough and count on offense or maybe let Nürnberg come and play on counter attacks. I think this is more their style of play and they are by far better in this as to push from beginning on. The offensive players in their rows are all fast and they like to have more space as they must play against a defensive minded team. This showed recent results too. The win in Bremen where the home side played much too open and also the good home match to Dortmund. They like to play such opponents but if Nürnberg allows is unknown. Overall the success and performances were much better at home as on the road. Also they face some problems in midfield because with Baumgartlinger is an important man out, Zimling played more on central offenisve position but were not so good in his performances and coach Tuchel was also not pleased. Therefore he search for the right balance in midfield and maybe change some.
If we compare both teams, normally you never should take this side from Nürnberg but Coach Veerbek makes such a good atmosphere and he is so positive that sooner or later they get the win that is maybe needed for a better season. He did a good job this week and he push the players and gave a lot of self confidence back. Of course Mainz is a hard nut but if we take all played opponents from Nürnberg in consideration they were much better against teams from the upper table. They lost to Hamburg, Freiburg and Augsburg (all in second half of the table) but got points against Dortmund, Hertha and Wolfsburg (all in upper half). I believe in them today.
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