The wheels of fortune continued to turn in Bayern’s favour as Bayern recorded their largest away win of the season. Dortmund beat Bremen by a solitary goal.
Dortmund and Bayern has both played the majority of 2012 without their best players Mario Goetze and Bastian Schweinsteiger respectively. Dortmund played a weakened Bremen side and won courtesy of a player who has somewhat acted as a ‘messiah’ for them in Shinji Kagawa.
Kagawa’s poor form in the earlier part of the season led to rumours of a transfer away from the club. Kagawa has been rejuvenated this year and he has partly filled up a massive hole left by Goetze. The record unbeaten run in the Bundesliga is 24 matches, recorded by Bayer Leverkusen in the 2009-10 season. Dortmund is currently on a 20-match unbeaten streak.
Meanwhile, Schweinsteiger was not present even on the bench against Hertha in Berlin but Bayern still produced a brilliant performance. Three penalties in an away match are rare but Hertha cannot really argue against the decisions. Time and again Bayern cut through their defence easily.
The Bavarians scored six past Otto Rehhagel’s side. Arjen Robben scored a hat-trick of which two goals came from the spot, Mario Gomez scored from the spot as well while Toni Kroos and Thomas Mueller scored the other two.
Schalke and Hanover both struck four times for the second time in four days. Schalke as usual went behind to Kaiserslautern in just the third minute. Raul, Jefferson Farfan, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Lewis Holtby made Rodnei’s early goal feel like nothing more than a consolation.
Hanover took the lead via their midfielder who has been lighting up the pitch, Lars Stindl. Köln, without a sporting director and perhaps soon to be without Lukas Podolski, equalized through Kevin Pezzoni only to concede three more via Jan Schlaudraff and Mame Biram Diouf.
Monchengladbach put Bayer Leverkusen away thanks to a late goal by Igor de Camargo. Marco Reus had initially opened the scoring but Kiessling had then equalized. Leverkusen old boy Patrick Helmes struck twice this week. This is really a turn-around of events for the German who had been banished to the reserves earlier in the season by coach Felix Magath.
Helmes’ goals helped Wolfsburg earn three precious points away from home against Nuremberg, winning 1-3, with Daniel Didavi coming up with the other goal. HSV lost by the exact same score-line to a rapidly improving Freiburg side. In the Badem Württemberg derby, Hoffenheim lost to Stuttgart due to two goals coming from their old boy Vedad Ibisevic.
In a weekend where players scored against their former clubs and Bayern won 0-6, the top of the table did not change unless of course you take goal difference into account. The lesser sides failed to take away points from the top four and we will be heading into next week with the top four teams in the same order as last week.
Next week two free-scoring sides, Bayern and Hanover take on each other. Make sure to tune in to that one!
Kagawa’s poor form in the earlier part of the season led to rumours of a transfer away from the club. Kagawa has been rejuvenated this year and he has partly filled up a massive hole left by Goetze. The record unbeaten run in the Bundesliga is 24 matches, recorded by Bayer Leverkusen in the 2009-10 season. Dortmund is currently on a 20-match unbeaten streak.
Meanwhile, Schweinsteiger was not present even on the bench against Hertha in Berlin but Bayern still produced a brilliant performance. Three penalties in an away match are rare but Hertha cannot really argue against the decisions. Time and again Bayern cut through their defence easily.
The Bavarians scored six past Otto Rehhagel’s side. Arjen Robben scored a hat-trick of which two goals came from the spot, Mario Gomez scored from the spot as well while Toni Kroos and Thomas Mueller scored the other two.
Schalke and Hanover both struck four times for the second time in four days. Schalke as usual went behind to Kaiserslautern in just the third minute. Raul, Jefferson Farfan, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Lewis Holtby made Rodnei’s early goal feel like nothing more than a consolation.
Hanover took the lead via their midfielder who has been lighting up the pitch, Lars Stindl. Köln, without a sporting director and perhaps soon to be without Lukas Podolski, equalized through Kevin Pezzoni only to concede three more via Jan Schlaudraff and Mame Biram Diouf.
Monchengladbach put Bayer Leverkusen away thanks to a late goal by Igor de Camargo. Marco Reus had initially opened the scoring but Kiessling had then equalized. Leverkusen old boy Patrick Helmes struck twice this week. This is really a turn-around of events for the German who had been banished to the reserves earlier in the season by coach Felix Magath.
Helmes’ goals helped Wolfsburg earn three precious points away from home against Nuremberg, winning 1-3, with Daniel Didavi coming up with the other goal. HSV lost by the exact same score-line to a rapidly improving Freiburg side. In the Badem Württemberg derby, Hoffenheim lost to Stuttgart due to two goals coming from their old boy Vedad Ibisevic.
In a weekend where players scored against their former clubs and Bayern won 0-6, the top of the table did not change unless of course you take goal difference into account. The lesser sides failed to take away points from the top four and we will be heading into next week with the top four teams in the same order as last week.
Next week two free-scoring sides, Bayern and Hanover take on each other. Make sure to tune in to that one!
