Lukas Pinckert

There was one just before half-time where, in midfield, Alcic plays an absolutely fantastic play.

through ball if you get a chance to see the replay it's a fantastic ball timed perfectly into an equally perfectly timed run from Eric Junior Dina Abimbe from the right hand side he runs onto it perfectly he cuts back into Karaman he forwards the ball onto Dzeko and do you notice there's nothing wrong with Edin Dzeko's shot either he's tried to shoot through the legs of I think it's Lucas Pinkert the defender against the direction of the goalkeeper into the far corner as you'd expect from Edin Dzeko it's an absolutely textbook shot and he's almost nailed it through the legs of Pinkard which has not quite come off but overall it's a fantastic move from Schalke and I think over the first few matches that we've seen we've seen this really really dogged well-organized, well-disciplined, hard, you know, really battling Schalke, which is fine.

But the question is always going to be, you know, can they do anything else going forward? And there were definitely signs today, even though they didn't get a goal, there were signs today that with Karaman, Aucic, Dini Abimbe, Tanaka, Barca, Yeah, they do have options up front.

They can play football and I think the goals will come.

So Tim Boss, our eyes are on you this weekend.

But when it comes down to the rest of this roster, you can look at their center back and captain, Lucas Pinkert, who is 26, solid player.

They depend upon him for a lot.

He'll be serving a red card suspension in the Pokal.