Gladbach have slumped every winter that I've been watching...aka since Favre's 1st full season. Eberl does a great job but he simply can't afford as much high-end depth as the big-spending CL regulars; y'all, Bayern, Leipzig & Bayer. So they tend to end up limping into the winter break, before making their push in the 2nd half of the season once they're healthy, refreshed & done with english weeks.
But yeah, if they played the way they did against Real moving forward, they'd end up in the relegation race.
We've not slumped that much last season finishing(especially compared to those two seasons before under Hecking) with 30 points during the second half of the season, after those 35 during the first half.
There won't be any winter break(besides maybe a week) this season and we still have four games in 2020 while a guy like Zakaria's trying to come back and with Hofmann being out so far.
Though, so far there seems to be something missing, during league play, and I wouldn't be surprised if we finished somewhere between 5th - 9th this season.
If we play like we did against Real we'd probably have loads of trouble against most bottom feeders or even 2nd Bundesliga sides as this was aweful on Wednesday.
Still going through to the round of 16, in a group like we had, is a great achievement for us and a nice amount of money(9.5 mil Euros) on top of it.
That's great for us during times like these.
Now we'll face either PSG, Juventus, Citeh, Chelsea or Liverpool in the next round and I'm just going out on a limb saying we're probably not going to be favourites in that matchup.
