Bundesliga review part 2. the new one :)

[Alex - City Matters]

Re: Bundesliga review

Expect a very good Bundesliga season this year. Obviously title race between BVB and Bayern, maybe Schalke and Leverkusen at a push. But the most interesting part, like last season will be the battle for the other CL spots and Europa league places.

I expect all of these teams to be challenging for some sort of European place at some time of the season; Schalke, Leverkusen, Freiburg, Eintracht, Wolfsburg, 'Gladbach, Hannover, Stuttgart, HSV and Mainz at a push. For around 4 or 5 spaces it makes for a good watch.


Teams I'd look out for would be, 'Gladbach, with the editions of Max Kruse and Rafael paired with a fit Luuk De Jong, key players such as Marc André Ter Stegen, Martin Stanzl, Juan Arango and Patrick Hermann could make for outsiders once again for the Champions League.

Stuttgart, after a few disappointing seasons they have strengthened a lot over the summer, with acquisitions of Gōtoku Sakai on a permanent deal, Daniel Schwaab, Mohammed Abdellaoue, Sercan Sararer and the 2 year loan signing of Moritz Leitner from BVB although not the best of players, combined with the current squad could make for an all round team capable of a Europa League finish.

Teams who I think may struggle,

The obvious Eintracht Braunschweig similar to Greuther Fürth last season, they have managed the unachievable and beaten the likes of Köln and Kaiserslautern to get promotion to the Bundesliga. But with a squad of their talent with no disrespect is quite poor and I expect them to finish bottom with no more than 20 points.

FC Augsburg, again a smaller club with limited resources, although they have 2 (?) Bundesliga seasons under their belt, they have struggled at best and I think this time they will not be as lucky.

Others who could do well would be Eintracht Frankfurt and Wolfsburg, and others who could struggle could be Hoffenheim and Werder.
Overall I expect and Bundesliga season that was even better than the last, so we should all be in for a good watch! I expect the Champions to be Bayern, followed by BVB but a smaller gap, the Schalke and Leverkusen. Frankfurt, Stuttgart and 'Gladbach for the Europa league and Hoffenheim and Braunschweig to go down. The two teams to come up, Kaiserslautern and St. Pauli with Düsseldorf beating Augsburg in the relegation/promotion playoff.

-- Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:59 pm --

Well they do if they change the system and leave out a defensive midfielder. The full backs push up a lot more and Lahm in particular tucks into midfield. The centre backs are higher up and of course they don't play with Martinez. These are very big changes.

Good spot with that, I expect them to sort it out soon ;) Pep out!

Pretty good analysis, however I am a bit worried about "us" (Frankfurt), seeing that a lot of our players have overperformed last season and all that while our rivals couldnt win either when we had a horrible streak of games in the second half of the season.

I hope that Veh somehow manages to work his magic again, however I fear we might end up midtable especially as we are not used to play in Europe. Our Play Off game will be held a good 3000km away from home and collides with our already pretty harsh first couple of games (freshly promoted Berlin and Braunschweig as well as Bayern and Dortmund).
I hope we still somehow manage to get our hands on that promising czech striker from Prague (Vaclav Kadlec) and then we should be pretty much sorted in terms of the squad. But getting that striker would be crucial as Veh seems to try and play 4-4-2.

I support Bayern after City played them and I went there, but I've always had a soft spot from Eintracht, I don't know why but yeah. IMO your main weakness was your strikers last season, a great back four, solid midfield with players like Rode and Inui. So with the acquisition of Kadlec it could prove a great buy.
Personally I think you'll get to the Europa league again, as "big" teams like Werder, HSV and Wolfsburg have underachieved for some seasons and I expect that'll be the same this year, although Wolfsburg should be better than last year. So that leaves steams like Mainz and Freiburg challenging with you, Stuttgart and 'Gladbach for the Europa league and with Mainz and Freiburg on "smaller" budgets I expect you to have a good finish again. I also think you'll have a good campaign in the Europa league, maybe the quarter finals. With the Commerzbank arena being very intimidating when full, it could be a key reason why you could beat some of the bigger teams.
So overall, I do think Veh will "work his magic again" (did that Schalke rumour go away?) and I expect you to finish 7th and the quarter finals in the Europa League.

 

[thenabster]

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Aubameyang!

 

[thenabster]

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Watch out Bayern, Borussia and Aubameyang are coming for you.

 

[Ruhr]

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Results

TSG Hoffenheim 2-2 1. FC Nürnberg, att.29,000
1:0 Abraham
2:0 Modeste
2:1 Frantz
2:2 Ginczek

another goal, that wasn´t. Hoffenheim ball clearly behind the line, ref didn´t see it.

Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 SC Freiburg att 25,000

1:0 Kießling
1:1 Hanke
2:1 Son
3:1 Sam

Leverkusen three forwards looked good today

Hannover 96 2-0 VfL Wolfsburg att 48,000
1:0 Andreasen
2:0 Huszti

Red card: Armold (Wolfsburg)
Yellow-red card: Klose (Wolfsburg)


Hertha BSC 6-1 Eintracht Frankfurt att. 54, 376
1:0 Ramos
2:0 Brooks
2:1 Meier (pen)
3:1 Allagui
4:1 Allagui
5:1 Ramos
6:1 Ronny

WTF, was that, Bembeltown?

FC Augsburg 0-4 Borussia Dortmund att. 30,660 (sold out)

0:1 Aubameyang
0:2 Aubameyang
0:3 Aubameyang
0:4 Lewandowski (pen)

Haha, called Aubameyang a Chancentod last week on here, seems he heard about it

 

[Alex - City Matters]

Re: Bundesliga review

Results

TSG Hoffenheim 2-2 1. FC Nürnberg, att.29,000
1:0 Abraham
2:0 Modeste
2:1 Frantz
2:2 Ginczek

another goal, that wasn´t. Hoffenheim ball clearly behind the line, ref didn´t see it.

Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 SC Freiburg att 25,000

1:0 Kießling
1:1 Hanke
2:1 Son
3:1 Sam

Leverkusen three forwards looked good today

Hannover 96 2-0 VfL Wolfsburg att 48,000
1:0 Andreasen
2:0 Huszti

Red card: Armold (Wolfsburg)
Yellow-red card: Klose (Wolfsburg)


Hertha BSC 6-1 Eintracht Frankfurt att. 54, 376
1:0 Ramos
2:0 Brooks
2:1 Meier (pen)
3:1 Allagui
4:1 Allagui
5:1 Ramos
6:1 Ronny

WTF, was that, Bembeltown?

FC Augsburg 0-4 Borussia Dortmund att. 30,660 (sold out)

0:1 Aubameyang
0:2 Aubameyang
0:3 Aubameyang
0:4 Lewandowski (pen)

Haha, called Aubameyang a Chancentod last week on here, seems he heard about it

Is that the same Ginczek that played for Pauli last year?

 

[Rotweiss]

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In the last game today Eintracht Braunschweig 0:1 Werder Bremen

 

[bayern blade]

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Watch out Bayern, Borussia and Aubameyang are coming for you.

We're terrified.

Frankfurt's defence :-) Where the fuck was it ?
One of the worst displays I've seen for years, if they play like that next weekend they will need a bigger scoreboard.

 

[Rhineland]

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Is that the same Ginczek that played for Pauli last year?

Yes.
(re. earlier q: Robbie Kruse now plays for Leverkusen)

 

[Rhineland]

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draw for the German Cup / 2nd Rd. matches to be played sept 24th/25th

Preußen Münster - FC Augsburg
VfL Osnabrück - 1. FC Union Berlin
1. FC Saarbrücken - SC Paderborn 07
SV Darmstadt 98 - FC Schalke 04
SC Wiedenbrück 2000 - SV Sandhausen
1860 München - Borussia Dortmund
VfL Wolfsburg - VfR Aalen
Arminia Bielefeld - Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Hamburger SV - SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Bayern München - Hannover 96
Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum
1899 Hoffenheim - Energie Cottbus
1. FSV Mainz 05 - 1. FC Köln
FSV Frankfurt - FC Ingolstadt 04
1. FC Kaiserslautern - Hertha BSC
SC Freiburg - VfB Stuttgart

 

[Tbilisi]

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One for our German friends,is there a link anywhere to show what games are shown daily on DSF?

Even though Alemannia Aachen are not in the 2. Bundesliga I still take an interest.As a matter of interest is there a channel I can watch Alemannias division games on?

Thanks for responses.