The Coveted Loss

There it is! Finally did Bayern Munich lose another game desperately to sack coach Jürgen Klinsmann at last. At least that’s what the Bayern fans hoped for. But ha! Like a cat Klinsmann just used what seemed to be his eleventh or twelfth of his nine lives to lead the running down session on the Sunday morning after the Schalke 0-1 game as a Bayern coach. German news services tasted blood though, having the events covered from the Bayern HQ minute by minute in order to report from the inevitable (?) sacking of the head coach. New gossip and commentaries are published on top of every hour elevating this nonsense to a ridiculous high profile political event. Although leader Wolfsburg still has to play and thus has to win tomorrow to take Bayern’s title aspirations down three pegs or four, Klinsmann’s future as a Bayern employee seemed to have sadly come to an end.

In other games: After Berlin’s victory yesterday, Stuttgart managed to beat Frankfurt 2-0 bringing them to a fabulous fourth position, having Mario Gomez scored again.

Hamburg therefore seemed to have lost their winning streak. After losing mid-week against Bremen in the DFB-Pokal, they received yet again a huge damper losing 0-2 loss at Dortmund who is now in reach for the UEFA-Cup positions in the Bundesliga tables.

Meanwhile did Bremen prepare itself for game 2 of the Hamburg-Bremen series next week with a 3-2 home win against lower positioned Bochum after trailing 0-2 at half-time. Bochum, needing these points desperately to stay in the Bundesliga were unfortunately not able to bring home at least one point. Very bitter.

Talking about bitter, Cologne ridiculed itself once again losing 1-2 at the unofficial Bundesliga shooting gallery Hannover. Cologne having won only 10 out of 36 points in the second half of the season is so unbelievably lucky to have gained enough points already in fall and winter.

Another team who knows best about an embarrassing second half of a Bundesliga season is Leverkusen who was not able to win at home at all. But thank God, last in line Karlsruhe came to town being a thankful opponent to end this not-winning streak. And yes, of course, Karlsruhe won its first game since week 19. And not only that. But Karlsruhe’s defender Sebastian Langkamp scored what could be the goal of this Bundesliga season. Think it’s exaggerated? Okay, have a look! There you go. Congratulations Karlsruhe, you deserved it!