Bundesliga Week 32 - First Act

Finally some midweek action with the following games:

Bayern Munich – Bayer Leverkusen 3-0

Great game by Lukas Podolski who was involved in six of the last eight Bayern goals. However they missed a lot of opportunities against a weak Bayer side to close the gap to Wolfsburg in the goals-for-column, being still two goals behind. Technically they’re even three goals behind with one strike less on their side in total.

Bayer were denied two crystal clear penalties in the first twenty minutes that they didn’t had the slightest chance to recover from their ‘bad luck’ (let’s hope it was that). One other possibility that the referee didn’t blow his whistle could be that he was appalled by the ugliest Bundesliga jerseys this season. Where the hell did they get those from?

VfL Wolfsburg – Borussia Dortmund 3-0

Dzeko twice, Grafite once, 3 goals, 3 points, top of the league.

Borussia received their first defeat after winning seven games in a row. In addition Kevin-Prince Boateng was banned for four games and thus for the rest of the season after that kick.

1.FC Köln – Hertha BSC Berlin 1-2

They should be so lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky that they collected the required points to stay in the Bundesliga during the first half of the season. With their current performance the billy goats would have deserved to relegate.

Berlin isn’t playing pretty, fair enough. But with their spirit, their performance and their tactics they keep winning and winning putting them in the reach for the Bundesliga championship. Everybody is focusing on Wolfsburg and Bayern while underestimating the kickers from the capital. This is clearly their chance to shock the established teams.

Karlsruher SC- Hannover 96 2-3

While leading 2-0, Karlsruhe keeper Markus Miller was probably already calculating the chances of his side to remain in the Bundesliga, not realizing that Hannover’s Frank Fahrenhorst shot on his goal. In the best English manner he paid tribute to the goalkeepers from the island, letting the ball slip through his hands and into the net for the 1-2. He’s now able to do the math pretty easily, Karlsruhe got relegated for real.

Good effort by Hannover to recover from a 0-2 although it was only Karlsruhe. German national keeper Robert Enke showed yet another astonishing performance demonstrating his side that without him there wouldn’t be many differences to Karlsruhe.