Lux: Belarus
As you all have seen, we have lost to Belarus only by 3 points. I sincerly believed this match was the one in which we stood the most chances to succeed and I was quite right. Sadly I have chosen the wrong tactic, but it was based on the previous matches played by Belarus. I am a little dissapointed with the result, but not so much with the fact that we lost, but much more with the fact that our TOP player Paul Niggemann and one of our best outside players Bayenthal were in a utterly dissapointing GS. Because of that I decided I would not put Bayenthal in the match at all, but could not do that also with Niggemann, because we do not have an adequate replacement for him. I really do not understand how some managers are able to leave their players in that GS, since it is also very bad for them. We still have two matches to go, but with our enthusiasm at the starting 5 it is impossible to expect a win.