Bremen - Leverkusen 2-0 after 30 minutes. That would be the 3rd win in 3 games since the winterbreak for Bremen, they were in 16th place after the first half of the season and right now are 8th with a good chance of finishing 7th (which could be enough to play in the Europa League).
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Leverkusen is absolutely useless.
4th win in a row. They've won against Dortmund before the winter break.
I really thought Bremen would go down before the season.
New coach with a different approach and lot of new players but the club will always have the same mentality.
Maybe we shouldn't write them off too early, scored the 1-2 shortly before halftime. Could be an interesting 2nd half.
What the feck is happening?
Bremen was a hipster club before it was cool...
They score goals. They have Davie Selke who is going to be a terrific striker for Germany and Di Santo who is almost on double figures this Season. The issue with Bremen is they leak in loads of goals, if they are able to improve defensively then they'll be fine imo.
In the last 8 Bremen Games:
Davie Selke = 606mins, 4 goals, 3 assists. For a 20 year old, that's pretty bloody good form.
End result: Werder - Leverkusen 2:1
About Selke... Until now he is more the counter striker. That is why I am a little careful with predictions. He looks good but he somewhen has to go to a bigger club and get international experience before we talk about the German team.
It was Bremen's 7th win in 11 matches with Skripnik. And the fourth in a row.
Augsburg could go into 3rd place with a win against Frankfurt. They're playing an incredible season so far.
He looks nailed on for me, natural goalscorer with lovely technique and good vision. Do agree he needs to move (hopefully not this Summer as he needs games to develop) but I can see the top German teams wanting him if he continues this form.
And Augsburg takes the lead. What the feck is going on there, incredible run.
Augsburg is really impressive. Especially when you look at their team, filled with Bundesliga rejects like Bobadilla or Altintop. Their team work is just great.
Frankfurts defending is awful. For some reason Augsburgs finishing is letting them down.
And he scored! 2-0 now. I think it's harsh to call Halil Altintop a Bundesliga reject by the way.
Maybe interesting - that is the Bundesliga table from matchday 10 to 20 ... just to see the trend!
Augsburg is second there - even 3 points ahead of Wolfsburg...
club/goal difference/points
Bayern München 16 25
FC Augsburg 7 24
VfL Wolfsburg 11 21
FC Schalke 04 8 20
Werder Bremen 3 19
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6 16
Hamburger SV 0 14
Bor. Mönchengladbach 0 13
Borussia Dortmund 0 12
Eintracht Frankfurt -2 12
1. FC Köln -3 12
SC Freiburg -4 10
Hertha BSC -8 10
Hannover 96 -3 9
TSG Hoffenheim -6 9
VfB Stuttgart -6 9
1. FSV Mainz 05 -2 8
SC Paderborn 07 -16 5
Augsburg has a wage budget from around 20 million EUR...
Aigner just scored the 1:2 short before halftime.
Augsburg is second there - even 3 points ahead of Wolfsburg...
club/goal difference/points
Bayern München 16 25
FC Augsburg 7 24
VfL Wolfsburg 11 21
FC Schalke 04 8 20
Werder Bremen 3 19
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6 16
Hamburger SV 0 14
Bor. Mönchengladbach 0 13
Borussia Dortmund 0 12
Eintracht Frankfurt -2 12
1. FC Köln -3 12
SC Freiburg -4 10
Hertha BSC -8 10
Hannover 96 -3 9
TSG Hoffenheim -6 9
VfB Stuttgart -6 9
1. FSV Mainz 05 -2 8
SC Paderborn 07 -16 5
Augsburg has a wage budget from around 20 million EUR...
Aigner just scored the 1:2 short before halftime.
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I'm a big fan of Altintop, no doubt he had a good time at Schalke but he was let go by Frankfurt and didn't exactly have the best time in Turkey(!).
I thought he was well past his best, how wrong I was...
2-1 now.
Stupid Augsburg
This whole 3-match, now 2 match, ban ruling in Boateng's case still confuses me. Who came up with the idea that the ban should be extended by a game if the other team fecks up the penalty? It makes no sense. If he fouls outside the penalty box, preventing a clear goalscoring chance, it's way worse, because the other team doesn't get a penalty to make up for it, yet if the freekick doesn't end up in a goal, it has no influence on the ban.
If it happens when the team is 5-0 in the lead, should the goalkeeper simply let the ball in, so that the ban isn't extended? And why is it even relevant at all? There's also the chance that the striker fecks up the chance without a foul. The penalty gives back the chance and the red card is the punishment, job done. Missing or scoring shouldn't have any influence on the punishment anymore.
I understand that they want to extend the ban if the player is a repeat offender and I don't really get why they took that one away now, because Boateng has a few too many red cards in his career. But the one for missing the penalty is probably the most stupid rule I ever heard of and that's saying something with all the stupid rules in football. Hell, the judge even made a joke in the hearing and asked Boateng if Neuer doesn't like him because he saved it. That alone should show everyone how ridiculous that rule is.
Oh and:
1860
If it happens when the team is 5-0 in the lead, should the goalkeeper simply let the ball in, so that the ban isn't extended? And why is it even relevant at all? There's also the chance that the striker fecks up the chance without a foul. The penalty gives back the chance and the red card is the punishment, job done. Missing or scoring shouldn't have any influence on the punishment anymore.
I understand that they want to extend the ban if the player is a repeat offender and I don't really get why they took that one away now, because Boateng has a few too many red cards in his career. But the one for missing the penalty is probably the most stupid rule I ever heard of and that's saying something with all the stupid rules in football. Hell, the judge even made a joke in the hearing and asked Boateng if Neuer doesn't like him because he saved it. That alone should show everyone how ridiculous that rule is.
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1860 Thought so, too, but as it happens, it is only his 2nd in the BuLi, dating from 2011. This season, he was on 1 (one) yellow in all three competitions combined/23 matches.
13/14: 7 yellow, 1 red /City/CL, 39 matches
12/13: 7 yellow, 1 red /Bate/CL, 39 matches
11/12: 3 yellow, 1 red /Hannover/BL, 46 matches
hardly what one would call a htiman but for his CL shenanigans
RB just sacked their manager.
Didn't Boateng get red carded in the Bayern-Hamburg game last season? I think I remember him being sent off...
This whole 3-match, now 2 match, ban ruling in Boateng's case still confuses me. Who came up with the idea that the ban should be extended by a game if the other team fecks up the penalty? It makes no sense. If he fouls outside the penalty box, preventing a clear goalscoring chance, it's way worse, because the other team doesn't get a penalty to make up for it, yet if the freekick doesn't end up in a goal, it has no influence on the ban.
If it happens when the team is 5-0 in the lead, should the goalkeeper simply let the ball in, so that the ban isn't extended? And why is it even relevant at all? There's also the chance that the striker fecks up the chance without a foul. The penalty gives back the chance and the red card is the punishment, job done. Missing or scoring shouldn't have any influence on the punishment anymore.
I understand that they want to extend the ban if the player is a repeat offender and I don't really get why they took that one away now, because Boateng has a few too many red cards in his career. But the one for missing the penalty is probably the most stupid rule I ever heard of and that's saying something with all the stupid rules in football. Hell, the judge even made a joke in the hearing and asked Boateng if Neuer doesn't like him because he saved it. That alone should show everyone how ridiculous that rule is.
Oh and:
Just read about this, talk about the most unfair ruling ? This is absolutely stupid to me. Makes no sense at all.
Bayern and Wolfsburg look locked for 1st and 2nd but the race for the other two CL spots is going to be tight. I expect Shalke to grab one but the other is hard to predict.
They really improved and seem to have found consistency since Di Matteo took over despite an insane number of injuries. If they get some of their key players back, they should finish 3rd without too much trouble. I still expect Augsburg to drop off, so 4th place should be decided between Leverkusen and Gladbach. The race for 7th place could be interesting as well. If the winner of the cup final is already qualified for the CL or EL, 7th place would be the 3rd Europa league spot and right now there are only 8 points between 7th and 18th. Basically every club in the league could still reach 7th and play in Europe next year.
His statement sounded like he made the decision himself, because the club already told him that he will be replaced at the end of the season anyway. It's probably best for both, him and the club. After it became public that Tuchel will take over after this season, it's fully understandable that his motivation was gone.
According to newspaper "sz"
The rule doesn't say anything about penalties. The rule says: standard for "Notbremse" (="professional foul" - a foul with the intention to stop the player from scoring) is a 2 matches ban.
Then reasons in favor or against are taken into account. A reason in favor would be: he didn't reach his intention, which was to prevent a goal. This would lead to the ban reduced by 1 match.
In Boatengs case: 2 day ban for professional foul, plus one because it wasn't his first red, -0 because he prevented the goal being scored.
So far makes sense, only: The "plus one for the second career red" rule was only recently removed by the DFB itself, something the court had forgotten
Did anyone notice Bremen creeping up to 8th on the table? They looked set for relegation not too long ago.
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BVB: Weidenfeller – Piszczek, Subotic, Sokratis, Schmelzer – Sahin, Gündogan – Kampl, Kagawa, Reus – Aubameyang
Hummels is sick, Sokratis comes into the team. It's the only change from last weeks 3-0 win.
Mainz 05: Kapino - Brosinski, Bell, Bungert, Bengtsson - Soto, Baumgartlinger, Geis - Malli, Hofmann - Okazaki
Hummels is sick, Sokratis comes into the team. It's the only change from last weeks 3-0 win.
Mainz 05: Kapino - Brosinski, Bell, Bungert, Bengtsson - Soto, Baumgartlinger, Geis - Malli, Hofmann - Okazaki
Today has been a sad day, the funeral of a close family friend, so I hope the boys can brighten it up a little. Hard to predict how the game will go as both teams' recent form has been erratic. Dortmund have the better players on paper and have a really good record against us in recent years. However, we beat them in the home game this season and we're lining up with what is pretty much our best team (bar the suspended Karius).
I'll go with a 1-1 that won't help either team get away from the relegation zone.
As an aside, our narcissist of a president apparently prefers the Fassenacht to his football team - he'll attend the "Mainz bleibt Mainz" show instead of the game.
I'll go with a 1-1 that won't help either team get away from the relegation zone.
As an aside, our narcissist of a president apparently prefers the Fassenacht to his football team - he'll attend the "Mainz bleibt Mainz" show instead of the game.
Well let's see if Dortmund can finally get a second win in a row or if they will have another fallback.
Mainz lead after 55 seconds!
Insane.
So much for pulling themsevles out of it. Still in shambles. Dortmund hasn't turned any game around this season so the best they can hope for is a draw from now on.
This game is gonna be epic
Off the post Dortmund. Can sense a good game coming up
Marco Reus smashes against the post, what a start to this game!
Of course they are wasting the big chances up front.
Moyesesque by Dortmund. Must be the curse of Kagawa.
Home as well.