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A Look Back at the Bundesliga Season that Was
Köln’s seasons went up in flames as a Bundesliga giant managed to keep their status despite a season of struggles.
Since the inception of the Bundesliga in 1963, only one team has represented it every season- Hamburger SV. Their status as the Bundesliga’s ‘dinosaur’ was being seriously threatened as Frank Arnesen brought along a line of Chelsea youngsters to represent the Germans. Arnesen almost contradicted the statements he had earlier made about...
Match day 34- A day of goodbyes in the Bundesliga
Last week, Senor Raul Gonzalez and Michael Ballack brought an end to their careers in the Bundesliga. This week, the prodigal son of Köln will be playing his final match in Germany’s top-flight.
‘Revenge is a dish best served cold.’ This saying might run true in Berlin this week as Hoffenheim visits. Hertha will be at their knees hoping that Bayern and Markus Babel help them survive in the top flight. Just one season after their promotion, they will most likely depart the Bundesliga, leaving Germany without a club from its capital in its premier league.Hertha went downhill ever since Babel was shown the door on Match-day 17 following a match against his current club. That day the score was 1-1. A draw won’t be enough for Hertha to grab the relegation play-off spot this time. A win for them coupled with a loss for Köln against a Bayern side challenging on two fronts will see Hertha finish 16th.
A Look Ahead to the Bundesliga this Weekend
The Champions League spots are almost settled but there is still quite a lot to fight for at the bottom.
The top two sides in the league are Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund has already won the league while Bayern has already made second place their own. Bayern has nothing to play for in the league in the last two remaining games. However, the players and board alike feel that their fans always deserve a good performance.They were true to their words in Bremen, when, despite fielding a side filled with reserve players, they claimed a 1-2 victory last week. This week, Bayern plays the final home game in the league and their second last home game of the season. Their final home game will be against Chelsea in the Champions League final on May 19th.
The Bundesliga brings more exciting matches to us this week
The title race is settled but there are still exciting games to be played in the Bundesliga.
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Schalke – Dortmund
Dortmund heads to Gelsenkirchen following a lucky win over Bayern. Bayern’s Arjen Robben missed a late penalty which earned him criticism from Franz Beckenbauer. BVB played extremely well especially in the first half and overall deserved to win the...
The Stage is Set for The Clash of the Titans in the Bundesliga
This week, when Bayern takes on Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, there will be more than just the Bundesliga title on the line.
Dortmund is the young and enthusiastic side that has taken the Bundesliga by storm over the last two seasons. They have left the best team in the history of German football in their wake. They hurt the pride of the Bavarians immensely last season by inflicting two painful defeats on them. This encounter though has a different ‘feel’ to it.Bayern, for once, has not been talking up their chances. The Bayern hierarchy including Karl Heinz Rummenigge, Uli Hoeness and Christian Nerlinger has largely kept their thoughts to themselves. Bayern is for the moment, concentrating purely on their matches. They have eight games left to play this season in all competitions.
Bundesliga Review: Bayern and Dortmund both win ahead of Wednesday's clash
The matches this week almost transpired as expected- in mid week, we might find out where the title will be heading to at the end of the season.
Bastian Schweinsteiger shunned a reporter’s questions after Bayern’s derby victory. The reporter’s question was meant to belittle Augsburg and Schweinsteiger, out of respect, chose to move away from the scene. The German completed 90 minutes in a match for the first time since October. An almost unknown side has emerged to Bayern’s character now. Bayern has learnt how to win ‘ugly’. Mario Gomez in his post match comments said that Bayern cannot be expected to thrash opponents every week. Indeed, Bayern’s win over Augsburg was an ‘ugly’ one. Dortmund beat Wolfsburg on the same day at the same time consigning die Wolfe to only their fourth home defeat of the season.
There is plenty to play for in the Bundesliga this week
Three vital matches take place in the Bundesliga this week aside from the blockbuster between Dortmund and Bayern.
Bremen – Mönchengladbach
Gladbach has virtually almost nothing left to play for this season. On current form and considering Schalke’s current form, third place is seemingly unreachable. They are tucked comfortable in the fourth and final Champions League spot, nine points...
There are four potentially tight matches awaiting us in the Bundesliga this weekend
The top two sides in the Bundesliga are a week away from meeting each other. They are currently separated by three points.
Bayern - Augsburg
Bayern is now well and truly fighting for an elusive treble. They must win to remain in the title race. Bayern is currently on an eight match winning streak. They have kept six clean sheets in those eight contests including in the last three matches. Fringe players are starting to come to the fore for Bayern as Ivica Olic struck twice against...
Bundesliga Review: We finally have a title race in our hands!
Three out of the four contenders faltered this week, leading to the gap between the top two sides reducing to only three points.
Borussia Dortmund 4-4 VfB Stuttgart- Juergen Klopp and Bruno Labbadia took turns at punching the air and celebrating overzealously as the score kept on changing. Dortmund led 2-0 even with 20 minutes remaining on the clock. Stuttgart drew two goals out of the bag in quick succession and then took the lead. Mats Hummels turned up with an absolutely amazing goal to level the scores at 3-3.Dortmund then took the lead but were pegged back late into injury time by Christian Gentner. Mats Hummels completely missed the ball when he tried to head it away from his penalty area. He collided into Marcel Schmelzer while attempting to clear it. Schmelzer’s fall turned out to be more than just collateral damage as the ball fell kindly for the talented Gentner to score.
The Bundesliga sees three brilliant matches take place this weekend
The season is drawing ever closer to the finish line; Borussia Dortmund remains on top and is almost all but certain of winning the Bundesliga with a five point lead over second placed Bayern.
Dortmund begins a tough round of closing fixtures with a home match against Stuttgart. Bayern plays Nuremberg in the Franconian-Bavarian derby. Hannover plays Borussia Mönchengladbach in what is perhaps the most intriguing match of the weekend. Schalke, after having been shocked by Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League on Thursday plays Hoffenheim.
Nuremberg-Bayern
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Bundesliga Review: The Ruhr Teams Lit the League Up as Bayern continued to win this week
The Bundesliga recorded a massive away victory in its history books this week. However, Bayern wasn’t the team to go off on a goal-scoring rampage this time around.
When Köln scored the opener against Dortmund via Milivoje Novakovic, there was a slight doubt about Dortmund’s chances of winning the game. All those doubts were erased soon afterwards as Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa, Ivan Perisic, Lukasz Pizsczek and Ilkay Guendogan all scored to win 1-6. Monchengladbach failed to recover from the misery of a cup defeat on penalties. They succumbed to Hoffenheim in strange fashion. Gladbach led the match for 75 minutes after Marco Reus grabbed an early goal to give his side the lead. In the 77th and 79th minutes, Hoffenheim scored through Roberto Firmino and Boris Vukcevic to lead and eventually win the game.
An Exciting Weekend awaits us in the Bundesliga
‘Exciting’ is the only word which can describe the Bundesliga action which will take place tomorrow.
Köln always is a very entertaining side- regarding matters on and off the pitch. After having been absolutely thumped 4-1 by Hanover last week, they take to the pitch against the holders Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund was in action in mid-week in the DFB Pokal. It took them a full 120 minutes to dispose of SpVgg Greuther Furth with Ilkay Guendogan scoring the winner in the final minute of extra time.Other matches include a contest between Hoffenheim and Monchengladbach, who were also in cup action during the week. Bayern takes on Hanover, a contest which has seen Hanover come out on top in the previous two meetings. The biggest match of the weekend takes places between two of the most exciting sides of the league, fourth placed Schalke and fifth placed Leverkusen.
What can we make of the Champions League and Europa League draw results for Bundesliga clubs?
The Champions League and Europa League draws have been completed – the German teams have tough tasks on their hands if they are to win either European tournament.
In the inaugural Champions League season in 1992-93, Marseille won the competition. The stadium they won the final on was the Olympiastadion, precisely Bayern’s former stadium in Munich. Nowadays, the stadium is called the Allianz Arena and Bayern features there every other week and sometimes in midweek too.The sides have never faced each other in the history of the competition and have been paired with each other for the first time. Bayern players are perhaps relieved at avoiding Barcelona and Real Madrid but nothing can be taken for granted. Two teams that have beaten Bayern soundly in recent memory were defeated by Marseille- Dortmund and Inter won’t have fond memories of the French.
The Bundesliga promises plenty of excitement this week
The Bundesliga this week promises nothing but pure excitement as the top three sides all have tough tasks in their hands.
Bayern’s away troubles are no secret to anybody. Two victories at the Allianz Arena by score-lines of 7-1 (against Hoffenheim) and 7-0 (against Basel) might make a few historians turning pages; however, while the results might have raised team morale, the bitter truth is Bayern has won just one away game in 2012.Dortmund meanwhile takes on Bremen, a side they beat with just ten men in the first half of the season, 0-2. Bremen last week absolutely battered Hanover 3-0. Bremen’s deficiencies at the back are what have caused their fans headaches for many a season under Thomas Schaaf and Dortmund as we know, is brilliant at punishing defences.
Bundesliga Review: Bayern lights up the fireworks again!
Is the Bundesliga title race back on? May be, just may be, the fans can up their hopes for a race after Dortmund finally dropped points and Bayern unleashed their true selves.
The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ nature of Bayern has been getting on the nerves of all Bayern fans while playing into the hands of rivals Dortmund. The home games usually tend to end up being straight-forward wins for the home team in Bayern’s case while the away games usually result in a loss or draw. Bayern has won just one away game in 2012 and that too in the DFB Pokal.The home win this time however was so emphatic that the fans had to forgive the players for the torrid performance against Leverkusen. Mario Gomez bagged a hat-trick to lead the way in the Bundesliga top-scorers chart. Six relatively ‘text book’ style goals and one Toni Kroos beauty gave Bayern the victory, their biggest of 2012 and their second biggest of the season so far.
Bundesliga Review: Dortmund on course for a second title in a row
Dortmund went one step closer to securing the title following a massively successful weekend for Klopp’s side.
The match-day fixture list seemed perfect for Dortmund. Bayern was playing a tough Leverkusen side on the road. Schalke was playing a much improved Freiburg side and Gladbach was playing a tricky Nuremberg side in Franconia. In theory, Bayern was almost expected to at-least draw against Bayer 04, Schalke to beat Freiburg and Gladbach to perform well against Nuremberg. In reality, actually, the fixture list turned out to be a perfect one.Dortmund in fact almost slipped up too against Mainz. The plethora of missed chances that seem to be almost mandatory in Dortmund’s games would have frustrated players from another side but not Dortmund. Despite their former player Mohammed Zidan scoring an equalizer with about 16 minutes to go, Dortmund still found a way to win as their in-form Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa scored to give the Ruhr side a 2-1 win.
Bayern München vs Schalke 04 Preview
Schalke is perhaps waiting with delight to avenge the defeat in Gelsenkirchen this season.
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For Bayern, Bastian Schweinsteiger is definitely out of this match as is Daniel Van Buyten. Diego Contento is yet to return while Breno is still being hampered by knee problems. Jupp Heynckes otherwise has a full strength squad to choose from. At the moment though, he might prefer substituting his whole attack for a fit Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Schalke has been hit by injuries to goalkeepers Ralf Fahrmann and Lars Unnerstall. Former Bundesliga winner, Timo Hildebrand is currently keeping for them. Sergio Escudero will not play a part in this one due to injury. Jermaine Jones is yet to return from a long term suspension thanks to a moment of madness on his part when he maliciously attempted to hurt Marco Reus of Mönchengladbach earlier in the season.
Bundesliga Review: A Weekend of Sackings, Hirings and Improvements
The Bundesliga coaching carousel has begun once again. Holger Stanislawski and Michael Skibbe lost their jobs while Markus Babel returned to the Bundesliga just four match-days after his sacking.
Hoffenheim looked like a ‘life-less’ side match after match. The club had seemingly taken all the energies out of a lively and energetic Holger Stanislawski. Hoffenheim was sinking deeper and deeper into trouble with every passing week and a change had to be made. Hoffenheim then made a ‘safe’ decision and brought in the Bavarian Markus Babel.Babel very nearly earned a win for his side in his opening match but was denied by Marko Arnautovic in the 89th minute of the contest against Bremen. Babel’s two former clubs meanwhile played out a one sided contest in Swabia. Stuttgart battered Hertha 5-0. The match saw the reign of Michael Skibbe come to a disappointing end after the coach failed to win a single game in his short tenure.
Dortmund Edges Ahead in the Bundesliga Title Race
Bayern has officially been dethroned from the top of the Bundesliga. The weekend was really a triumph for Borussia Dortmund as all their nearest contenders drew their matches.
The Bayern supporters knew as did the hierarchy- the team’s performances weren’t up to the mark. Meanwhile, in the Ruhr region, Dortmund decided to put the loss of Nuri Sahin completely behind them. The three performances that Dortmund has produced in the Bundesliga this year have been almost spotless.A 0-2 win over Nuremberg propelled them to the top of the table on Friday. On Saturday, the three other contenders had to match their result and all failed to do so. Bayern was held to a draw in Hamburg. The result caused some uproar in Bavaria- but this time the comments from the hierarchy weren’t directed towards the opposition. The comments were directed towards Jupp Heynckes.
10 Facts and Stats You Don’t Know about the First Half of the Bundesliga
The first half of the Bundesliga left some statistician scratching their heads. The average Bundesliga fan might not be too surprised by these stats though.
This Bundesliga season so far has been a spectacular one. The first half of the season filled the fans' appetites with brilliant football. Bayern lit up the pitch for a while before Dortmund and eventually Schalke joined the party. Schalke played some eye-catching football. Dortmund capitalized on the matches in which Bayern dropped points.A few interesting stats were recorded in the first half of the season. Here is a compilation of interesting facts that will perhaps surprise you. Some facts won't surprise a fan of the Bundesliga as Bayern dominated for a large part of it but others might.