Gladbach drew 1-1 against Stuttgart on Saturday evening. Too little, considering the 90 minutes. Captain Lars Stindl was correspondingly dissatisfied.
31:5 shots on goal, 9:1 corners, 85:77 percent pass rate, 59 percent possession: all decisive statistics were in favour of Gladbach on Saturday evening. Only the decisive one was even, as the scoreboard at Borussia-Park showed a 1-1 draw at the end. “It was a racy game,” said Fohlen coach Adi Hütter on “Sky” after the match and, referring to the statistics, added: “If you look at the statistics, which don’t lie, it’s of course annoying that we didn’t come off the pitch as winners.”
Stindl was also not happy with the result in the end. “It’s totally annoying. We played a great first half, came in well in the first quarter of an hour,” thought the captain, who credited his team with a very good reaction after the surprising deficit: “We get the Sunday shot, don’t let it faze us and continue to play well. We also score the goal, have chances before the break through Luca Netz and after the break through me.”
Hütter was also proud of his team’s performance in the first 45 minutes. “We played a really good game then, with a lot of power,” said the coach. “The last two and a half games we showed what I imagine. We started well, went into counter-pressing, played well up front.” The goal conceded by Konstantinos Mavropanos only briefly rattled the Foals. “Out of ten times, he can still shoot nine times and doesn’t score. I thought, “Go ahead and shoot. Then I was taught better,” Hütter said of the goal.
Second Gladbach half was “no longer so clear “
While the coach, who has now picked up seven points with his team in the past three matches, was still satisfied with half one, the picture changed somewhat after the change of sides. “That’s when we didn’t have such a clear grip on the game. We had a phase in which we didn’t play the last pass cleanly,” said the 51-year-old.
All in all, Gladbach could have won, but Stindl was happy with the performance: “We put in a lot of effort, especially in the first hour or the first 70 minutes. That’s why it’s a shame that we didn’t reward ourselves. But it was a totally mature performance from the young squad that we kept playing after the deficit and had a lot of personnel up front. “
