Friday, April 12, 2013

Why Mats Hummels Is so Very important to Borussia Dortmund - Bleacher Record

If BorussiaADortmund's struggle to overcome Malaga in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final told us such a thing, it's that Mats Hummels is really a sorely missed existence. Manuel Pellegrini's area setup roadblock after roadblock whilstAsimultaneouslyAexposing BVB's disadvantages, and the current presence of the GermanAinternationalAwould have made things much easier for the favourites. The two-legged event served as an indication to us of why he is so important to Juergen Klopp's part, so let us recap. In both feet against Malaga, Dortmund actually struggled with the ball. The full-backs, Marcel Schmelzer and Lukasz Piszczek, are not aerially confident and seem to locate a head to actually take control of the specific situation. Felipe Santana is an excellent stand-in, but BVB's improvement in the quarter-final was often under threat when Willy Caballero lofted a long ball in to the path of Julio Baptista. Baptista would both gain the header or cause chaos along the way, and it was his great work that helped the chance to Joaquin to open the score at Signal Iduna Park. From then, induced by anxiety, Dortmund's centre-backs naturally slipped five yards once the ball was lofted toward Julio, giving him time and place to carry it down if he wanted to. Martin Rose/Getty Pictures Mats gets the presence, the physicality and the capacity to stop this being a standard matter, and if Malaga had looked with their goal man more often, they could have had more pleasure. But it isn't just in a aerial feeling that Hummels helps the medial side. His tackling, moment and marking are of the greatest quality, and as B/R's Bundesliga expert Clark Whitney loves to say: "Mats marks opposing strikers into total anonymity." Some of the finest forwards on earth have didn't get a kick and come up against him. Be it Bayern's ferocious forward range, Real Madrid's deadly duo or Ajax's free-flowing fiesta, Hummels pockets anything. Klopp has great copy in Santana and a fantastic companion for the beautiful Mats in Neven Subotic, but the Serbian is more of a hard-hitter, and you will find, at most readily useful, two people on earth that can fill Hummels shoes. And possibly the reason behind that is his targeting ability. He doesn't only draw you off the message in a potential, when he gets the ball he drives forward and triggers problems. He provides midfield guns and strikers to him, forcing them to shut him down, and things are opened by that up in the heart of the frequency. Malaga seemed near impregnable for 130 minutes, and a huge section of which was their organisation and discipline at the rear. Jeremy Toulalan and Ignacio Camacho formed a great keeping mixture, and Martin Demichelis had the overall game of his life (again). Subotic goes vs. Malagaa'where's the penetration? (via footballclub.cnn.com) Duda was fielded in an advanced position to shut down Ilkay Gundogan and give him as little room to work with that you can, while Toulalan pocketed Mario Goetze. It was looking borderline impossible for die Borussen to break los Boquerones down, and it came down to a master flick from Marco Reus to have the ball rolling. With Gundogan turn off and the midfield fight lost, Hummels was the person who may have actually changed proceedings. Racing forward, Duda and Baptista would have had no alternative but to shut him down. When teams bottleneck against Dortmund and account for every attacking player, Mats is the system can be broken by the one who down, similar to Gerard Pique does for Barcelona (though they're not equivalent in any other sense). Heading into the semi-final, Hummels cannot be lacking otherwise BVB stand a serious threat of falling at the final barrier. Research, charts via CNN Soccer Club.

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