Bembeltown said:
Dortmund playing the Derby at Schalke right now.
Going to be interesting....
After losing to Duisburg and only getting a shady 1-1 versus Ingolstadt my team managed to beat Aue 4-0 today.
Düsseldorf is now under pressure to win in Dresden on Monday...
Fürth seems to be as good as through to the 1st division, so its basically us and Düsseldorf fighting for the second direct promotion spot.
We had a pretty nixe Choreography on display right before the game.
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The banner basically reads "Look into your hearts and you will see that true love never fades"
The small drawings near the second tier show the "life-cycle" of a supporter from beeing born with the eagle in their heart, till dying and getting to the heavens gate just to be greeted by the eagle again.
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[bigimg]http://eintracht-online.net/galerie/displayimage.php?pid=13087&fullsize=1[/bigimg]
Greuther Fürth is more Unterhaching than Augsburg is... - the stadium just has 15000 seats.
I do not know if there ever has been 4 bavarian clubs in the Bundesliga at the same time - in the 2 years Unterhaching has been in the Bundesliga Nürnberg has played 2nd league. Right now it looks like it could be like it. And I think after a couple of years in which they always have finished so close to the top they have earned it.
And it is good if Frankfurt makes it up again - I have so many Eintracht fans around me and it is no fun if they are not in the first league. I like them suffering ;) - I live near Frankfurt (but still in Bavaria) and that is the best way to catch Bayern matches especially as Bayern always won the matches I visited - no matter if it was derbys against 1860 or the matches in Frankfurt (and so often just drew or lost in Frankfurt - never when I was there). The best was that 2:1 win in 1999/2000 in which they needed all goalkeepers and at the end Tarnat had to be the goalie.
I can see Dortmund dominating for as long as Klopp is there. Not going to lie, I've become a bit of a Dortmund glory hunter. Good club, passionate fans, likeable players and good football.
Sometimes it seems that this club is too passionate (I do not mean the fans) - and some of their players, especially Subotic or Großkreutz are not really of the likeable sort. And the problem I see is that the club seems to tolerate bad behaviour.
They have likeable players like Hummels and Götze.
Dortmund plays a match that needs a lot of energy. That works very well when you just take one tournament serious and play only once a week - like Dortmund did after the winter break with drawing only twice. You sometimes see them having a worse second half (like e.g. on Wednesday) as they seem to not be able to keep up the speed and workrate. So I seriously doubt that they be able to compete well in both - league and CL.
Munich has to get a better bench (and a new coach that is not just a wellness coach but tries to get back some of the structures van Gaal implemented) as there is too much differences between the first team and the others.
Alaba made his 50th Bundesliga match today. Is there any other 19-year-old that has so much League matches for a top club, more than 10 CL appearances and 17 or more caps?