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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.
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Bundesliga Mid Season Review 2011-12
The Final Weekend of 2011 in the Bundesliga ended with plenty of drama as Markus Babbel was sacked as coach of Hertha Berlin.
Markus Babbel is an ambitious man. He spent long years as a player with Bayern and Liverpool and thus has a winning mentality. He perhaps saw Hertha as a club that was not going to move forward. As a result, he opted not to extend his contract and he said as much to Hertha’s general manager Michael Preetz. Preetz according to Babbel refused to be truthful to the media. Babbel was sacked this week. He will be replaced by Michael Skibbe. Hertha’s final result under Babbel was a 1-1 draw against Hoffenheim in Sinsheim. Hertha is seated not too securely in mid table. Babel’s former team meanwhile secured the Autumn Championship in Bavaria.
Schalke Emerges as Bayern’s Closest Contenders for the Bundesliga
Schalke has the right combination of youth, experience, attack and defence in their team. They celebrated their fourth home win of the season in a 3-1 success against Hoffenheim.
Last season, Leverkusen occupied the spot which Schalke currently occupies. Leverkusen escaped literally on Friday night. A second minute Michael Ballack goal set the stage for wave after wave of Freiburg attacks which somehow failed to result in an equalizer. Now we know Michael Sorg wasn’t kidding when he said that his team’s results do not match their performances.A performance like that in the Champions League on Tuesday night might see Bayer 04 become the laughing stock of Valencia for a while. What has to be said is that Simon Rolfes was left on the bench for this one. Ballack broke his nose in the match as well. Signing Bernd Leno was a wise decision by the Bayer board- they will need him on Tuesday considering the way they played on Friday night.