Bundesliga Wrap Up – Week 31
Bayer Leverkusen – Arminia Bielefeld 1-1
For the Bayer team, a good luck charm is something else but the LTU-Arena in Düsseldorf. Remaining without a single win in their temporary home, Leverkusen is failing over and over again to defeat even the lower positioned teams. Anyway, they only have one ‘home’ game left before the season is over.
Bielefeld missed the opportunity to leave Düsseldorf with what would have been veeery important three points in order to avoid relegation. As a result it remains tight down there in the tables after Patrick Helmes scored the equalizer for Bayer in the 79th minute.
Hannover 96 – Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1
Yaaawn. Two questions. Who would have missed this game if it hadn’t been played and who expected a different result in the first place?
Borussia Dortmund – Karlsruher SC 4-0
Great effort by the Borussia winning seven games in a row now, getting closer and closer to end the Bundesliga season on an European League spot. But where could they have finished if they hadn’t drawn an astonishing 13 times?!
You think that was it for Karlsruhe, failing to score in eight consecutive games having only 23 points on their account? Not this season, three games to go and still in reach for the rescuing 15th place in the standings.
1899 Hoffenheim – 1.FC Köln 2-0
Twelve games without a win, made the surprising team of the Bundesliga season’s first half nervous and thus naturally led to self destructional tendencies having the self-absorbed coach shooting against everybody else in the club while the proud investor is not sitting down on this. Luckily the billy goats are visiting the town, because:
If you haven’t won in a long time, if you haven’t scored for several games, if you didn’t manage to keep a clean sheet for quite some matches, Cologne is the opponent you’re looking for! They once again made the grade to be the perfect and reliable sparring partner.
Hertha BSC Berlin- VfL Bochum 2-0
Look who’s back again! Berlin recovered from a few set-backs and managed to be back just in time for the chase after the Bundesliga championship.
The VfL is still struggling to get out of the swamp that soaks you into relegation. And it doesn’t get much easier next week, having another away game and that in Hamburg even!
VfB Stuttgart – VfL Wolfsburg 4-1
Mario Gomez having scored all four goals, among them with 30 seconds into the game the fastest of the season, winning three points against a competitor in the title race, being in a brilliant shape for the decisive last three Bundesliga games, what is there much else to say?
Is it the nerves, is it the disaffection of the coach, the lofty heights, was it the fast goal against them? The good thing for the team is that there isn’t much time for the media to rub it in, the next Bundesliga game will be already on Tuesday against Dortmund. And although this will be a tough game, it is a splendid opportunity to make up for the humiliating loss.
Energie Cottbus – Bayern Munich 1-3
You’re fighting to stay in the Bundesliga, you have limited abilities, you’re opponent is Bayern Munich with a new coach and a new spirit, how much to lose is there really? Exactly.
A confident and important away win gave them the second place in the Bundesliga tables separated from Wolfsburg by two goals only. Franck Ribery missed from the penalty spot in the last minutes of the game. Only a cynical pessimist expects consequences…
Borussia Mönchengladbach – Schalke 04 1-0
Although Marko Marin missed an early penalty, the Borussia managed with a last minute winner to scramble out of the relegation and onto a safe 15th spot in the Bundesliga standings. It is getting really interesting in the red zone of the tables.
Schalke still on hold for their new coach/manager Felix Magath bid farewell to the European League spots and are thus ready for a complete reboot next season (if you wanna see it optimistically).
Werder Bremen – Hamburger SV 2-0
Of course the fans threw paper balls onto the pitch and of course did Bremen win the final game of their private 4-games-series with Hamburg again, denying the ‘Redshorts’ a UEFA-Cup final spot, a DFB-Pokal final spot and probably the opportunity to win the Bundesliga championship. Now that’s an archenemy for real!
Hamburg lost every decisive game, all to their northern rival from Bremen, getting screwed twice at their home, the breeze is blowing rougher and rougher…
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