Just watched the Bundesliga Highlights show for this first November weekend. Some questions and observations: 1) Has there been a technicians strike in Germany of late? For the past month and a half, this highlight show (produced by the league but perhaps not available in Germany) has shown highlights with crowd noise only. I missed last week, but I was happy to actually hear match announcers’ voices during today’s show. 2) I wonder if Hoffenheim’s Wouter Burger has a special foot-and-ankle-muscles exerciser machine not available in any gyms of which I’ve ever been a member. His match-winner in Wolfsburg was the best outside-of-foot-flick I’ve seen in a while, or maybe ever. 3) During HSV’s highlights (well, lowlights) I at first thought they were up against a prison squad. What the bluddy fork are Köln thinking in having those thin red-and-white-horizontal-striped jerseys?! Simply hideous. Where are your Aesthetics Police when they are urgently needed to protect the sensibilities of the German public? Not to mention all the countries that receive Bundesliga highlights? Someone will end up in Hospital, ffs. 4) Finally, during the Köln-HSV match, the camera showed a middle-aged fan whose kit jersey said “COLOGNE”…not “KÖLN”. What the fork is up with that?!
Almost right, Phil. It was a special shirt, not for Halloween but for the start of the "Fünfte Jahreszeit (as it is called in the Rhineland) (the fifth season)" Carnival. On November 11th at 11:11 a.m., the festive season begins again in the Rhineland. Köln, along with Düsseldorf and Mainz, is a stronghold of Carnival, and that's why 1. FC Köln sometimes wears a special shirt like this to mark the start of the Carnival season. Because Köln's next home game isn't until after the international break, they've already unveiled the special shirt now for the HSV match. Opinions on the design may certainly vary, but I think it's a nice idea with this special shirts for the start of the Carnival season. Some Gimmicks should also be printed on it I heard I think that these highlight shows of Bundesliga matchdays are produced only for the international market by the DFL but I'm not sure
This video popped up as a suggestion on my youtube account today. It's about an "Englishman explores German Football" as he writes on his youtube channel. And this time he explored HSV's Volksparkstadion and also the little HSV Museum. Although he visited it when there was no match played I think it nonetheless is interesting to watch and what he says about it and HSV. I enjoyed it.
Bayern finally stopped from winning. I think the same fixture is in the cup too so Union can take some confidence going in to that game.
I know, I was there Königsdörffer, who had cost us several points in recent games (missing a penalty against Wolfsburg, missing a big chance against Köln ( when we still had a full squad and were only 1-2 behind), of all people, he scored the equaliser. After the last game, I had "demanded" that he must be benched immediately. And he got also a lot of criticism on social media. Now, for the first time, he wasn't in the starting eleven and only came on after an hour, and already things are going well. He scored his first Bundesliga goal. There you go. ************* With this 1-1 Dortmund failed to get the 2nd spot and reduce the gap to Bayern (who were on the brink of a loss against bloody Union Berlin (>>PSG ) ) Leipzig, too, missed a big chance to reduce the gap, they even lost at Hoffenheim. Heidenheim hammered at Leverkusen, already 0-5 at halftime but only 0-1 in the 2nd half. Will be a very difficult season for them. Last season they just avoided relegation in the playoff against Elversberg
I'm not too worried about Bayern. After a legendary victory involving an immense workload at the Parc des Princes, you could see Bayern were fed up and had little energy left. At least they refused to lose, getting a late equaliser and pressed on for a win. Diaz is becoming more promising at scoring with a world class first goal from an almost impossible angle, but he should've registered another brace after failing to convert the much easier one-on-one with the keeper chance later. Sent from my CLT-L29 using Tapatalk
Monstrous performance by everyone involved. Was especially impressed by the 2 CBs, Upamecano (who always has been a quality CB) & Tah (who used to be severely shit but upped his game Rudiger-style). Lots of time wasting in the 2nd half but you expect when in the lead and a man down. Would have done the same had the roles been reversed.
Upamecano was a disaster waiting to happen for his first two seasons, I worried every time he had the ball. But this season he has been superb tbf.
He had some trouble adjusting playing for a tier one club for I'd say half a season. 2 whole seasons seems a bit much. You don't keep playing for Bayern if you don't deliver after 8 months.
Some jaw-dropping stoppage time tallies, I saw from my Bundesliga Highlight Show just now. Yes, HSV and Bayern (Kane) draw late. But best of all imho was the at-the-death match winner by Samuel Mbangula for Bremen on Friday. Teammate Victor Boniface’s attempt results in the ball flying 20 feet high. With two Volkswagen sales reps surrounding, Mbangula doesn’t miss a beat, volleys that sucker without letting it bounce, despite the crowded conditions, rifling it past the Wolfsburg keeper just before the whistle. Second-best moment, as already mentioned above by Oli H, was that incredible score for Bayern by Luis Díaz.
Hildesheim top of the league, at home to Spelle. What could possibly go wrong ? Well everything actually, VfV wasted chance after chance, Spelle broke away on the hour, keeper made a great save but their centre forward happily smashed in the rebound. VfV tried but there was no way back, and it was f##king raining, ah well :
Friday results in 1./2.Bundesliga 1.BL 1.FSV Mainz 05 vs TSG Hoffenheim 1899 1-1 Nothing spectacular here, except a new Bundesliga "record". Dominik Kohr is the first player in the Bundesliga who got his 9th red card in his career. Congrats, Dominik, you old lumberjack! . His next target is the yellow card "record". Here he's actually "only" at 2nd spot with 102 yellow cards. "Record" holder is still Stefan "Tiger" Effenberg with 110. No problem, I think, for Kohr to beat this, maybe already in this season. https://www.kicker.de/kohr-erneut-i...n-so-hartes-foul-mehr-gesehen-1168092/artikel 2.BL VfL Bochum vs Dynamo Dresden 1-2 First loss for Bochum under new coach Uwe Rösler. First win for the Saxons after 8 matches (4 draws within) Hertha BSC vs Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0 Damn!
After a long standing shoulder injury it's good to see local lad & Posh academy player Rikki Jade-Jones make the bench for St.Pauli today , good luck to him , despite his exceptional pace I still think he'll be well out of his depth but , I'm quite often wrong .
I watched my Bundesliga Highlights yesterday. My “game ball” for Matchday 11 goes to Deniz Undav for his great Harry Kane impression in Dortmund. He kept Stuttgart in the running by bringing them back from 0-2 in the 2nd half. Then when that looked for naught, he scored a stoppage time equalizer for the 3-3 final. (His first goal was an impressive flick that most mortals would need a swivel installed in their knee joint to imitate.) If I gave out a team award…who else…6-2 after trailing 0-2 to Freiburg. (At least they visited with some ambition.)
