"Oh! A substitution! It seems that Ryusuke Higo couldn't continue the game anymore!"
In the DAZN Studio, Daniel Herzog exclaimed as he watched the camera lens following the boy until he walked off the pitch still with a big grimace on his face.
"This is definitely not what all the Schalke fans want to see." Ballack analyzed the situation clinically. "Higo has been the best player so far for the team, and losing him will at least shake the players' concentration."
"Still, the replacement, Ralf Fahrmann, is not a newbie, right?" Daniel Herzog chimed in. "He is a veteran even in the Schalke team, so his presence should be able to ease the pressure and the awkwardness in their defensive line."
That was definitely a solid argument, especially when Farhmann himself was not a new figure between Schalke's posts, having already guarded it for so many years before the arrival of Alexander Nubel and even Higo himself in the team.
