Bundesliga review

[LoveCity]

Why have schalke fallen apart so badly?

It looks like their defence to me, it was dreadful today and Matip was embarrassing... pub league stuff. At the other side of the pitch they look quite good but are wasteful, they had 16 shots today but only 4 on target. Farfan and Draxler (who I really, really like the look of) both played well enough but Huntelaar's golden touch seems to have eluded him recently and he missed a really good chance.

 

[Bembeltown]

Huub Stevens got sacked in the morning (literally...).

 

[Maldeika]

Why have schalke fallen apart so badly?

It looks like their defence to me, it was dreadful today and Matip was embarrassing... pub league stuff. At the other side of the pitch they look quite good but are wasteful, they had 16 shots today but only 4 on target. Farfan and Draxler (who I really, really like the look of) both played well enough but Huntelaar's golden touch seems to have eluded him recently and he missed a really good chance.

Huntelaar had 5 goals this season in 17 matches - compared to his 29 in 34 matches last season or 15 in 16 matches until winter break last season. He had 13 assists (5 until winter break) last season, too - this season 2.

Last year he played with Raul behind him or with him. Holtby and Draxler are fine - but they certainly do not have the class of the old Spaniard...

 

[bayern blade]

Why have schalke fallen apart so badly?

Always do, it's an annual event. When they last won the league the world was still black and white, the time before that Germany still had a Führer rather than a Chancellor.
Schalke are like Leverkusen, always the bridesmaid. Dortmund and Bayern are the big two atm.

 

[davymcfc]

Why have schalke fallen apart so badly?

Always do, it's an annual event. When they last won the league the world was still black and white, the time before that Germany still had a Führer rather than a Chancellor.
Schalke are like Leverkusen, always the bridesmaid. Dortmund and Bayern are the big two atm.

They looked so good in the champions league though. Dortmund fucked us in the bum and bayern got to the final last season. It's an extremely strong league. I think it may be one of the German teams that wins the champions league this year.

 

[bayern blade]

They looked so good in the champions league though. Dortmund fucked us in the bum and bayern got to the final last season. It's an extremely strong league. I think it may be one of the German teams that wins the champions league this year.

The Bundesliga is flying atm and is getting stronger, all seven clubs in both competitions have qualified for the next round for the first time in many years, five of the seven won their groups. That is no accident.
Crowds are big, interest is getting bigger and the football is good.

 

[Bembeltown]

Compilation of all our goals so far...

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Really proud to see what Armin Veh achieved with this young and freshly promoted side. Really nice, fast paced attacking football.

Just hoping we are able to keep the team together now....

 

[DD]

Compilation of all our goals so far...

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Really proud to see what Armin Veh achieved with this young and freshly promoted side. Really nice, fast paced attacking football.

Just hoping we are able to keep the team together now....

Always a problem when Bayern are around. If they sense competition they will be sticking a bid in.

I wonder how long it will be before they start having secret meetings with Stefan Kießling and Andre Schürrle of Leverkusen.

Not that they've ever bullied clubs into selling players to them.

 

[DD]

They looked so good in the champions league though. Dortmund fucked us in the bum and bayern got to the final last season. It's an extremely strong league. I think it may be one of the German teams that wins the champions league this year.

The Bundesliga is flying atm and is getting stronger, all seven clubs in both competitions have qualified for the next round for the first time in many years, five of the seven won their groups. That is no accident.
Crowds are big, interest is getting bigger and the football is good.

Given that Eintracht Frankfurt, Freiburg, Mainz and Stuttgart are all in the top eight, is that a sign of a strong league or the opposite? I watch the Bundesliga every week and have attending fixtures with all bar one of those teams involved this season, and wasn't impressed with any. Dortmund have been, at best, patchy and Bayern are turning it into an embarrassing one horse race. The likes of Augsburg, Fürth and Hoffenheim are absolutely hopeless. I'd back QPR to beat any of them.

I love the Bundesliga for it's entertainment but I don't actually think there is as much depth as our league. Bayern, however, would tear a strip off nearly all of the Premier League teams.

Crowds are also now in decline, with the exception of Bayern, Dortmund, Schalke and Frankfurt, with empty seats now the norm rather than the exception at all of the other grounds. Getting tickets for games at the other 14 grounds has never been as easy since the 2006 World Cup.

Anyway, another rotten evening for Scheiße Null-Vier. They're falling apart at the seams! :-)

 

[Maldeika]

Compilation of all our goals so far...

<a class="postlink" href="http://vimeo.com/55775908" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://vimeo.com/55775908</a>

Really proud to see what Armin Veh achieved with this young and freshly promoted side. Really nice, fast paced attacking football.

Just hoping we are able to keep the team together now....

Always a problem when Bayern are around. If they sense competition they will be sticking a bid in.

I wonder how long it will be before they start having secret meetings with Stefan Kießling and Andre Schürrle of Leverkusen.

Not that they've ever bullied clubs into selling players to them.

Why? Kießling is not good enough for a Bayern player - and we have better options than a Schürrle...

Gomez has a goal ration of one goal every 52 minutes right now. Kießling is not the type of player that would be fit against the opponents Bayern faces. He has a worse goal ration per minute that Mandzukic has who is forward no. 2 at Bayern - and is more clinical...

If you really wanted to know how much depth the Bundesliga has you should have watched the cup match between Augsburg and Bayern today. If Augsburg (clear on rank 17 right now) would have somebody who can finish chances Bayern would have looked pretty old...