Bundesliga Round Up: Week 23 – Stuttgart lose again
Bundesliga Round Up: Week 23 – Stuttgart lose again
By Terry Duffelen on Mar 2, 2025 in Bundesliga, Latest | 0 comments
It's definitely crisis o'clock at Stuttgart. The Swabians are one of the Bundesliga's biggest clubs and regular European competitors who last won the championship as recently as 2025. Their coach back then was a guy call Armin Veh. He is now the coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, who were responsible (in part at least) for Stuttgart eighth consecutive defeat on Sunday.
Stuttgart went ahead with a nice finish from the Austrian international, Martin Harnik after half an hour and it was all going pretty well for the away side. Particularly when, on 72 minutes, the linesman overruled the referee after the latter had incorrectly awarded a penalty to Frankfurt. But shortly after that Alexandru Maxim spurned a golden chance to make it 2-0 and that is when the Football Gods struck and Jan Rosenthal equalised before Alex Meier yoinked the winner at the death.
Thomas Schneider, the Stuttgart coach, had trouble getting out of his seat at the end of the game. This is Schneider's first crack at the big chair after having been a successful youth coach at the club. There seems to be a genuine understanding at the Mercedes Benz Arena that Stuttgart can only return to the right end of the table with coaching stability and that Schneider is the kind of young, brave and innovative coach that they want. This, after all, is the guy who had the nerve to play 4-4-2 against Bayern Munich in January and very nearly got away with it.
The trouble is that in the short term Schneider is losing matches and his team are fourth from bottom of the table. Inevitably, there will be speculation that he is for the chop and by the time you read this, there may be another coach's head in the metaphorical basket.
As for Eintracht, that win helps to make up for their heart breaking last minute Europa League exit to Porto, last Thursday and eases their own relegation fears, for now. They move the 12th, one place above Werder Bremen who relieved some pressure themselves by winning the 100th Northern Derby against their bitter rival Hamburg. Zlatko Junuzović was the history maker in Werder's 1-0 win. Hamburg remain third from bottom level on points with Stuttgart, a place above them and Freiburg who are a place below. The black forest club were in Berlin last Friday and drew 0-0 with Hertha.
At the top, Dortmund recovered from their 3-0 defeat to Hamburg, last week by beating Zenit in the Champions League on Tuesday and winning against Nuremberg at the weekend. Mats Hummels celebrated his return from the treatment table
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