Alexander Nübel

They had one chance in around 10th or 12th minute, I think.

They tested Nubel.

Nubel had a save.

That was not a shot from outside the box, I don't think.

I was pretty sure that was inside the box and it looked like a half decent chance.

So maybe his intention is let's go with Ter Stegen for one or two years and then let's transition to Urbig.

That's easier to do with a 34-year-old goalkeeper than it is with a 29-year-old goalkeeper in his prime.

If you make Nubel your number one now, it's harder to transition to Urbig in a year or two.

He wants to see him back, and he played 75 minutes, I think, in the last game.

And Nübel, Nübel, who is playing in Turkey, is there as well.

Okay, I won't say.

Yeah, and Stach from Leeds, who's had a good season.

You're seeing it all around.

I mean, Alexander Nubel, after the match, gave an interview.

And he's like, with fans like these, this is just, we're having the time of our lives right

now.

We're covered at right back with Amir Mourinho and Taylan Bulut.

In the center we have so much... dead now with Emirhan Topçu, Umit Agda, Emmanuel Agbadou, Thiago Jalo and then Yasin Özcan as the ultimate backup in fifth position there.

In goal, Alexander Nubel and I do think, look, I was holding my heart a little bit when he had that collision at the end of the game because I do think that would be a huge loss.

That's the only position I think we're not super covered in.

Not just the hat trick, but also just the overall performance.

He... was it was such a fantastic center forward performance one that we haven't seen in a very very long time um but yeah before we get to do some blah which we kind of consider to be like the main course almost of the episode uh in terms of what we have to talk about let's talk a little bit about our lineup here let's have a look quickly at the lineup and then we can get into the details of what we thought the performances were like, but obviously in goal was Alexander Nubel, Ritwan Yilmaz returned at left back, Thiago Diallo and Emmanuel Agbadou in the middle, and Amir Murillo, the aforementioned Amir Murillo, at right back.

Then we have Salih Özcan as the pivot of our midfield, sweeping up behind Orkun Kukcu and Junior Olajitan, and then Vaclav Czerny on the right, Leandro Tosar on the left, and then Dusan Vlaovic, which is with his first ever start in the Turkish Super League for Beşiktaş.

And on your screen here to your right, you can see the lineup for Forum.

And I think that extra passing option that they had at the back, we've seen it as well.

We've talked about this, in fact, in earlier episodes.

This... last month that Alexander Nubel makes such a big difference relative to Mert and Ersim because of his ball playing ability.

It makes it so much harder for teams to press us aggressively because we have that extra passing option in the goalkeeper who can then distribute the ball really, really well.

Yeah, they seem about right.

All right, so in goal, of course, we had Alexander Nubel, who, yeah, whatever, we'll get into details soon.

In the back line, Emirhan Topçu, continuous fine form, I must say, next to Thiago Jalo, who took a step back, as you can see here.

Amir Murillo and Kasum Ouattara on the flanks of our defense were behind an interesting group in the middle.

You've got a Bilal El Kanous, the Moroccan.

And then, yeah, more notably perhaps the fact that Nubel has left.

You bring back Dennis Simon, who was at Paderborn, the team that got promoted from the Zweite Bundesliga.

He comes in as a... goalkeeper, you have Vangerman, you have Grisha Pramil coming into the midfield who will be next to Stiller and that's what's prompted Unda to get the captaincy at Stuttgart and Karazor losing it.

The main negative for Stuttgart coming into this game is in goal.

Uh, Nübel's loan has expired, so he's no longer at the club.

Dennis Simon is injured, so Fabian Bredlow is expected to start in goal, basically their third choice keeper.

Um, but the issue is kind of negated by Stuttgart and what they do in the final third.

And you know, we talked about those three guys, but you still have, you know, Chris Fuhrich as well, a talented professional winger.

You know, where you could see maybe a drop is Alexander Nubel was really good for this team last year.

Now, I don't particularly care for Nubel overall as a goalkeeper.

I think he's good.

mistake.

So, I mean, just to show here and for the people who are maybe listening, the lineup yesterday was obviously Nubel in goal, Thailand at right back, Agbadou and Emirhan centrally, and then Ridvan left back, Salih Özcan at the six, Orkun Krukçu and Wilfred Ndidi in the middle, Baklav Cerny on the right, Leandro Tosar on the left, and Orkun Gjö up top.

So...

I mean what was the I mean I honestly can't I think that Thailand was not a problem yesterday and I think the first half proves that because the first half we played our game and again I am 100 convinced if we continue playing at the level we were playing in the first half I'm not saying our first half was perfect But our first half...

Which I think we need that, because Orkun's shown a lot of signs of fatigue in these last two games.

Which is normal, he's played

almost every minute, other than Alexander Nubel, he's played

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