😴 Wake up, Gladbach! The Foals are the worst in the league at this | OneFootball

It was clearly evident once again in the last match on Saturday against Hamburger Sportverein: Gladbach are the late risers of the league.

For large parts of the first half, the Foals played very passively and rarely managed to keep possession of the ball – let alone become active offensively.

After 25 minutes, the Red Shorts had already recorded 13 shots on goal, while the visitors had none.

In Gladbach, they are surely glad that a match doesn't only consist of the opening phase – and not just yesterday afternoon at the Volksparkstadion.

The team from the Lower Rhine regularly sleeps through the first half hour.

As ‘Bild‘ reports, Gladbach would be in last place if you created a table based on the scores from the first 30 minutes of this season.

They have only been ahead twice in the first 30 minutes so far, and just four of their total 23 season goals have come during this period.

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Even though Gladbach managed to save a point in Hamburg thanks to a slight improvement in performance in the second half, coach Polanski mainly criticized the passivity in the opening phase after the final whistle: “We had to survive one or two tricky situations there. I missed the activity, we made poor decisions.”

Luckily for Gladbach, the game lasted more than 30 minutes – just like all the others, and that will remain the case for now.

Still: Always being the ones who sleep through the opening phase is something they surely can't afford in the long run on the Lower Rhine.

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