One of the many players on loan away from Leeds United this season, Maximilian Wöber was having a good season with Borussia Mönchengladbach, until Saturday.
His team faced Borussia Dortmund and the same team that had beaten VfL Wolfsburg 4-0 two weeks ago were easily swiped to one side in a 4-2 loss.
GladbachLive look at those responsible for the defeat, and give the Leeds loanee a rating of 4.5, which might not sound so bad on the face of things, but in the German rating system, that isn’t great.
We’ve covered how the Germans rate players in the past, but here is a quick lowdown: 1 means very good, 2 is good, 3 is average, 4 is passable but still lacking, 5 is deficient and 6 is insufficient. A 6 is the lowest possible grade and, taking it back to the school grades, it means that not only were things not up to standard, but there was even a failure to understand the basics.
Therefore, a 4.5 is somewhere between ‘still lacking’ and ‘deficient’, and the website make that clear with their description of his performance.
They say the defender ‘looked really bad’ in his duel with Julian Brandt before the score went to 2-1, and he was ‘lacking his usual confidence’.
It was the Leeds man’s role to try and calm his teammates after they conceded the first goal, and he ‘failed to do so’.
In short, his performance was a ‘crash’ from the previous Bundesliga game, and there will now be hope he can turn things around going forward and put this poor performance behind him.
