Bundesliga review

[DD]

Always had a soft spot for Alemmania Aachen after watching them in UEFA v Lille at Koln.Had a good crack with their fans in Koln so very sad to see them in 3rd tier this season.Keep on meaning to get over and see them when City are not playing but work and finances stop it!

They get support from the benelux countries as well due to their location.

I went over to watch Alemannia twice last season and hope to get over again towards the end of this season.

Things aren't going too well off the field at the moment with a huge battle in Saarbrücken the other week between the two different Aachen ultras groups. The whole thing has seen the club remove all the KBU banners and memorabilia from the ground and the last two games have seen the KBU actively segregated from the rest of the support until they can weed all the bad eggs out.

On the field and I fear this season isn't going to be a promotion battle as was touted in the pre-season. The new players don't seem much of an improvement on last season's shower, and I think a year of consolidating in mid-table is in order before, hopefully, putting in a sustained promotion bid next year.

How long the weekly 15,000 will keep going is anyone's guess.

 

[Ruhr]

the statistics

Borussia Dortmund 2 – Werder Bremen 1 att: 80,645
Reus, Goetze – Gebre Selassi
Slow start for Borussia into the new season

FC Augsburg 0 – Fortuna Düsseldorf 2 att: 30,401
– Schahin (2)
Great comeback for Fortuna after 15 years

Hamburger SV 0 – 1. FC Nürnberg 1 att: 50, 123
– Balitsch
All experts expecting HSV to be relegated and that´s how they started

Greuther Fürth 0 – Bayern München 3 att: 18.000
¬ – Müller, Mandzukic, Robben
Fürth´s first ever match in the Bundesliga

SC Freiburg 1 – Mainz 05 1 att: 22,500
Kruse – Ivanschitz

Borussia Mönchengladbach 2 – TSG Hoffenheim 1 att: 50, 146
Hanke, Arango – Firmino
Gladbach tries to find their way in the post-Reus-time

Eintracht Frankfurt 2 – Bayer Leverkusen 1 att: 27,950
Aigner, Lanig – Kießling

Hannover 96 2 - Schalke 04 2 att: 49,000
Felipe, Nikic – Huntelaar. Holtby
Hannover 18 matches unbeaten at home

VfB Stuttgart 0 – VfL Wolfsburg 1 att: 48, 820
¬ – Dost
Biggest fail of the day: Vedad Ibisevic tries to score
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgLONEnurc[/youtube]

 

[jay_mcfc]

Are Hamburg really that bad? Sad to see them like this when you think of how good they were a few years ago. Van Der Vaart needs to go back there.

 

[Ruhr]

they can´t pay him, i´m afraid

 

[Tbilisi]

Always had a soft spot for Alemmania Aachen after watching them in UEFA v Lille at Koln.Had a good crack with their fans in Koln so very sad to see them in 3rd tier this season.Keep on meaning to get over and see them when City are not playing but work and finances stop it!

They get support from the benelux countries as well due to their location.

I went over to watch Alemannia twice last season and hope to get over again towards the end of this season.

Things aren't going too well off the field at the moment with a huge battle in Saarbrücken the other week between the two different Aachen ultras groups. The whole thing has seen the club remove all the KBU banners and memorabilia from the ground and the last two games have seen the KBU actively segregated from the rest of the support until they can weed all the bad eggs out.

On the field and I fear this season isn't going to be a promotion battle as was touted in the pre-season. The new players don't seem much of an improvement on last season's shower, and I think a year of consolidating in mid-table is in order before, hopefully, putting in a sustained promotion bid next year.

How long the weekly 15,000 will keep going is anyone's guess.

Cheers for that,thought I was the only Blue who liked them!

 

[jay_mcfc]

VDV going back home!!

 

[Mayor West]

VDV going back home!!

He's Dutch not German.

 

[Ruhr]

yes, that are the final transfers in the Bundesliga

Martinez signed for Bayern.
Afellay for one year to Schalke
Hoffenheim ended contract with Ryan Babel
Leverkusen taled Samed Yesil goes to Liverpool

 

[Ruhr]

round 2

Mainz 05 0 -Greuther Fürth 1 , att. 28, 237
- Klaus
Fürth´s first ever bundesliga win

Schalke 04 3 - FC Augsburg 1, att. 60, 582
Papadopoulos, Jones, Huntelaar - Oehrl
Easy going for Schalke

1.FC Nürnberg 1 - Borussia Dortmund 1, att. 50, 000
Pekhart - Blaczykowski
Nürnberg parked the bus and Dortmund was clueless

1899 Hoffenheim 0 - Eintracht Frankfurt 4 att. 29,650
- Meier (2), Schwegler, Lanig
Hoffenheim in trouble from the very beginning of the season

Bayer Leverkusen 2 - SC Freiburg 0 att. 23, 635
Castro, Wollscheid
Leverkusen back on the track

Werder Bremen 2 - Hamburger SV 0, att. 42, 100
Hunt, Petersen
143rd north derby and the downfall of Hamburg continues

Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 - Borussia Mönchengladbach 0, att. 30,000 (sold out)

VfL Wolfsburg - Hannover 96
Bayern München - VfB Stuttgart

 

[Maldeika]

@Ruhr

You forgot to tell about the Pezzoni-story. Ok, that is Liga 2 now.

Cologne and he yesterday agreed to cancel his contract after he continuously was threatened by Cologne fans that even came to his house etc. In February a unrecognized person had broken his nose.