Posts Tagged ‘Schalke 04’
The Bundesliga Podcast: Manchester United v Schalke preview
After a one-sided defeat in the first leg, Schalke will tonight attempt to make history by overturning a 2-0 deficit in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final with Manchester United. I spoke to Dan Levy about the tie on this week’s episode of The Bundesliga Podcast and you can hear our preview of the game here.
Report: Unrelenting United bring Schalke down to earth
“GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — Manchester United produced a devastating attacking performance to record a 2-0 win over Schalke 04 in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday.”
Read my AFP match report here.
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Tactics: How the Champions League semi-finalists line up
This season’s Champions League semi-finalists reached the last four with an average aggregate winning margin in the quarter-finals of four goals, making them the most comfortable set of semi-final qualifiers in the Champions League era (post-1992).
The diagrams below depict their tactical line-ups from the first legs of their quarter-final ties, before there were any leads to be defended or deficits to be overturned.
NB: The diagrams show average positions from the first half of matches only, so as to provide a clear indication of how the teams approached each game in terms of formation.
Schalke: 4-4-1-1
The average positions of Schalke's players in the first half of their 5-2 victory at Internazionale in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final; UEFA
[Squad numbers: 1. Manuel Neuer; 22. Atsuto Uchida, 4. Benedikt Höwedes, 32. Joël Matip, 2. Hans Sarpei; 17. Jefferson Farfán, 14. Kyriakos Papadopoulos, 18. José Manuel Jurado, 11. Alexander Baumjohann; 7. Raúl; 9. Edu]
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