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Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I'm Taylor Rockwell and joining me from another country on the other side of the continent, it's Manuel Vait. Manuel, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to me today. It's great to have you back. Oh, thanks for having me once again on the show. Yeah. You and I chatted fairly recently for a good long while on Soccer 101 about why Byron Munich have been so good for so long. If you've missed that, you should check it out. That does feel appropriate, given the way these midweek fixtures went. But I don't want to start with Byron's coronation, like just yet. We can talk about that later. Let's instead go back to Dusseldorf, where you and I had some good times, along with the Cooligans and Daryl and everybody else. Today, Shaka did not have as good of a time in Dusseldorf. They lose 2-1-2-Fortuna with Lutz in the stands, changing his sweatshirts apparently at halftime. I've been operating under the assumption that David Wagner is a good coach in a difficult situation. However, today there are moments where I felt like you just didn't see that motivation,

you didn't see that fight back.

They can see two goals basically off of set pieces.

And I'm wondering now, how much of this do you think is David Wagner not being able to get

anything out of the squad versus how much is this just him kind of inheriting a problematic

situation?

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