Bundesliga review

[Ruhr]

What the actual fuck? 74k for a second tier game? Can you imagine 74k in the championship!!??

Biggest city in the country, 2nd biggest ground and a derby, that is a seldom event, only played 4th time in history.

Bundesliga matchday 22

VfL Wolfsburg 0-2 Bayern München, att 30,000
0:1 Mandzukic (36.), 0:2 Robben (90.+2)

Hamburger SV 1-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach att 54,558
1:0 van der Vaart (24.)
A real beauty from van der Vaart

Fortuna Düsseldorf 1-0 Greuther Fürth, att. 37.378
1:0 Bellinghausen (18.)
Dear god Fürth. Will "the cloverleaf" ever score again?

Werder Bremen 2-3 SC Freiburg, att. 38, 498
0:1 Max Kruse (36.), 1:1 Petersen (39.), 1:2 Daniel Caligiuri (54.), 2:2 Petersen (65.), 2:3 Ginter (71.)
Freiburg in Europe next season. Like it

Mainz 05 2-2 Schalke 04, att.34,000
1:0 Ivanschitz (27.), 1:1 Bastos (41.), 2:1 Pospech (63.), 2:2 Bastos (82.)
Bastos a really important winter signing for Schalke

Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 FC Augsburg att. 22,784
1:0 Kießling (26.), 2:0 Lars Bender (75.), 2:1 Mölders (89.)
Kießling having a brilliant season. Still no chance to play for germany

Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Eintracht Frankfurt, att. 80,500
1:0 Reus (8.), 2:0 Reus (10.), 3:0 Reus (65.)
The Marco Reus show

1.FC Nürnberg 2-2 Hannover 96 att. 36,101
0:1 Huszti (41.), 1:1 Klose (53.), 1:2 Ya Konan (68.), 2:2 Polter (90.+2)

TSG Hoffenheim 0-1 VfB Stuttgart att. 28,750
0:1 Harnik (3.)

1 Bayern München 57 57:7
2 Bor.Dortmund 42 50:26
3 Bay.Leverkusen 41 43:30

4 Etr.Frankfurt 37 38:34

5 SC Freiburg 34 29:22
6 Hamburger SV 34 27:27

7 FSV Mainz 05 32 30:27
8 Hannover 96 30 41:41
9 FC Schalke 04 30 35:37
10 Bor.M'gladbach 30 31:33
11 Werder Bremen 28 38:41
12 VfB Stuttgart 28 24:39
13 Fort.Düsseldorf 27 27:29
14 1.FC Nürnberg 26 22:29
15 VfL Wolfsburg 26 22:32

16 TSG Hoffenheim 16 26:46

17 FC Augsburg 15 18:35
18 Greuther Fürth 12 13:36


Bundesliga 2

1 Etr.Braunschweig 51 39:17
2 Hertha BSC Berlin 49 44:18

3 Kaiserslautern 39 33:21

4 FSV Frankfurt 33 30:26

 

[Bembeltown]

Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 FC Augsburg att. 22,784
1:0 Kießling (26.), 2:0 Lars Bender (75.), 2:1 Mölders (89.)
Kießling having a brilliant season. Still no chance to play for germany

This is one of the many reasons why I don´t like Löw. Players should be nominated on performance and instead he still brings Gomez along for reasons only Löw himself will understand.

 

[JollyGood]

Löw already said that Kiessling will be with the nationalteam for the upcoming WC qualification games vs Kahzakstan in march.

Over the last two seasons Gomez scored 54 goals in the league and 20 goals in the CL, scored 3 goals in 5 games at the Euro in the summer, as well. He was injured for the first part of the season and was allowed to travel to the nationalteam for one friendly. It's hardly a crime to nominate a striker with such a great goal scoring record for a friendly after coming back from injury.

 

[Bembeltown]

Löw already said that Kiessling will be with the nationalteam for the upcoming WC qualification games vs Kahzakstan in march.

Over the last two seasons Gomez scored 54 goals in the league and 20 goals in the CL, scored 3 goals in 5 games at the Euro in the summer, as well. He was injured for the first part of the season and was allowed to travel to the nationalteam for one friendly. It's hardly a crime to nominate a striker with such a great goal scoring record for a friendly after coming back from injury.

His scoring record is great, no one can deny that. However he is a limited player and adds nothing to the game than scoring.
He doesnt create chances for others, he has limited technical abilities, is slow and relys massively on others to feed him with chances.

I would rather play a striker who can more than just score, e.g. hold the ball, set up others etc to make the German offensive setup even more flexible and harder to predict.

But I never rated Gomez, so maybe thats just me. :)

 

[Ruhr]

it´s the haircut. Style is important for Joachim The Scarf Löw.

 

[Anonymous]

it´s the haircut. Style is important for Joachim The Scarf Löw.

Not a fan then ... :)

 

[Cellarite]

Berlin Derby yesterday in Bundesliga 2

Hertha vs. Union 2-2
attendance: 74,244

vocal winners, the 25,000 Union fans
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmaYUclcMN4[/youtube]

Incredible. The difference with fans in this country is that most think it's not cool to carry on like that. The only time a decent bit of singing gets going, people can't wait for it to stop to give themselves a round of applause. Bizarre behaviour really.

 

[Maldeika]

Not all Bundesliga...

But I still hate it that van Gaal did not go for Özil after the World Cup 2010. This two just make the perfect match. But maybe that is good for all the other teams - the chemistry is there from day one and they play with each other in a way others do not do after seasons of training sessions with each other...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCeU35KgAGo[/youtube]

 

[Bembeltown]

Small video of our away match in Dortmund.

Went down 3-0, but still had some fun anyway...

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[Innsbruckblue]

@ bembeltown

You haven't answered my question.
Why, despite the history in Germany of football clubs merging, dying, being resurrected, etc, is it okay for them to be regarded as traditional, and therefore, acceptable to play in the Bundesliga, but not for a club which suddenly receives an injection of cash to enable them to one day challenge for the Bundesliga?

The history of football is all about clubs being big and then not, and vice versa.
That's what makes the sport interesting.

Were FC Bayern always the biggest club in München?
How were Hertha BSC suddenly able to compete in the Bundesliga in the 90s? Not from cash they generated themselves.