Articles tagged with "energie cottbus"
10 Things we learned from Matchday 33
By Jan | May 14th, 20081. Rostock and Duisburg return to the second division. They went from newly-promoted to newly-relegated over the course of one season. Duisburg lost against Bayern at home (2-3), despite staging a semi-remarkable comeback after Lukas Podolski had ma ...
Circling the drain
By Chris | May 12th, 2008Our Hanseaten heroes are back to their blundering ways, having lost any momentum they may have gained in their well-played defeat to Bremen, with their away loss to relegation-strugglers Cottbus. Cottbus, for their part, ensured that they will stay i ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32
By Jan | May 9th, 2008It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it's time to catch up with it in this double header edition. ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 30
By Jan | April 29th, 20081. Only math stands in Bayern's way now. Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between th ...
5 Things we learned from Matchday 29
By Jan | April 17th, 20081. The truth behind Mirko Slomka's dismissal. Mirko Slomka got fired on Sunday. The same Sunday Kevin Kuranyi put on his serious face and told reporters that Schalke had lost a very good coach, who every player loves to work with. Then he put on his ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 28
By Jan | April 15th, 20081. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches. Last week Nuremberg's match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg's travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremb ...
Not Quite as Planned, But Better Than Bayern
By Abby | March 31st, 2008Why do we keep dropping points to Cottbus? Do we think the name Energie is cool? (It kind of is, I must admit.) Because we don't have much of anything that can be called a derby, so we must do our best to keep the one we have in the Bundesliga? Becau ...
Snapshot: Use the Force, Lulu!
By Jan | March 31st, 2008Here's Hertha's coach Lucien Favre practising his Jedi skills. Grown confident in his abilities, he then tried to apply his powers on his players. With little success, as Cottbus beat Hertha 2-1. ...
Oh, Right, Cottbus
By Abby | March 29th, 2008Tomorrow, Hertha head a bit south to the Stadion der Freundschaft to take on Energie Cottbus, who are as of writing officially the bottom team in the Bundesliga. They're two points behind Bielefeld and Duisburg, 16th and 15th respectively on 22 point ...
5 Things we learned during the International Break
By Jan | March 28th, 20081. Hamburg are missing out. Just look at that photo. Though, Croatia didn't really impress in their friendly against Scotland (1-1) and neither Dortmund's Mladen Petric nor Bremen's Ivan Klasnic could put their names on the score sheet. I'm still a ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Posts that made Oliver Kahn go...
By Jan | March 23rd, 2008Lukas Podolski and Jiayi Shao fought out one of the most exciting draws of the season. (Bundesliga Offside) Borussia Dortmund is back in Europe and the Dortmund Offside is back in action. (Dortmund Offside) Chris wrote an informative post ab ...
Stare Down Contest: Shao Jiayi versus Lukas Podolski
By Jan | March 21st, 2008Shao Jiayi (Energie Cottbus) and Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich) started last Saturday's match from the bench. To waste some time the two spontaneously decided to have a go at each other with a good old stare down contest. Here is how it all played ou ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 24
By Jan | March 18th, 20081. Luca Toni goes down easily. Call him a diver or an opportunist. When Bayern were trailing 1-0 at Cottbus, Luca Toni worked the slightest contact to his maximum advantage. He lost control of his body, fell to the ground and was awarded a questionable p
10 Things we learned from Matchday 22
By Jan | March 3rd, 20081. A lesson in the fine art of self destruction by Schalke 04. The merits of having the club's president publicly lame ducking a coach are generally questionable. Doing so ahead of two of the most crucial fixtures of the season is attention seeking, ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 21
By Jan | February 26th, 20081. Sotirios Kyrgiakos is the Bundesliga's Marco Matterazzi. It wasn't a World Cup final, it has yet to prove to be title deciding, but it at least shares some similarities with the infamous incident. Diego is - statistically approved - the most fouled pl
10 Things we learned from Matchday 20
By Jan | February 19th, 2008As a true football blogger I always think it to be appropriate to be kept away from blogging with nothing less than a calf strain, a torn ligament in my left knee or a thigh injury. At the end of the day though it was just a common cold. And now regular s
10 Things we learned from Matchday 19
By Jan | February 13th, 20081. There are entertaining 1-1 draws. You could call them borderline exciting draws as well. The top of the table clashes between Leverkusen and Hamburg and Bayern and Bremen didn’t really help anyone in terms of results, but yet you didn’t feel you j
die Tabelle lügen nicht! (02/07)
By Johnny on the Spot | February 8th, 20081. Bayern Munich Late in their match victory over Hansa Rostock, Hitzfeld switched Klose for Ottl and finally reverted from the toothless 4-4-2 to the dynamic 4-5-1 (or in their case a 4-2-3-1). Is he finally seeing the light? 2. Werder Bremen A bl
10 Things we learned from Matchday 18
By Jan | February 4th, 20081. If Bayern play bad their rivals will play worse. Or at least drop points, while Bayern won’t. Let’s take Hamburg for this weekend’s example. They played a toothless first half, went down 0-1 and then needed an improved second half to draw t ...
Transfers: Seven to watch in 2008
By Johnny on the Spot | January 29th, 2008The window is closing and the second half of the season is starting. Let’s look at seven signings that will make an impact this year and the future in the Bundesliga. 7) Alexander Bade moves from Paderborn to Dortmund. This guy will only be a back
What the ....: Energie Cottbus 5-1 Hanover 96
By Jan | December 15th, 2007This match has proven to me, that I'm not free of prejudices - though I'm really, really trying (honestly). I was away on Friday and when I checked the news and read the score-line this morning, my thoughts and well wishes were already with the poor ...
Matchday 16: Sense and Sensibility
By Jan | December 11th, 2007A lot has happened but fairly little has changed this weekend. And tempers were running a bit wild. Borussia Dortmund 6-1 Arminia Bielefeld Borussia Dortmund have quite unexpectedly found their rhythm and added another impressive victory to their C ...
Matchday 5: Relieved
By Jan | September 18th, 2007Collective Sighs of Relieve Bayern Munich was held to a draw again. This time it was Schalke's turn to proof, that Bayern Munich won't be winning each and every game by at least a three goal margin, as some people had feared or hoped. Even Oliver Ka ...
Thrice is nice: Dortmund down Cottbus
By Steven | August 25th, 2007Borussia Dortmund snapped their two game losing streak to start the season with a thoroughly convincing 3-0 win over Energie Cottbus at the Westfalenstadion. Dortmund were active from the start, seeing multiple chances go awry down the left flank. A sh
Bundesliga 2007/2008: Pre-Season Friendly Marathon
By Jan | August 10th, 2007If you want to check out how each Bundesliga team performed during the off-season, here is all you need. All pre-season friendlies (I hope) and links to video highlights if available. Bayern Munich (5/0/3) 01.07. Bayern - FC Sao Paulo 2:1 06.07. FT
Bundesliga 2007/2008: Predictions for a perfect Season
By Jan | August 10th, 2007It's a big day today. The Bundesliga finally starts into the new season, and after Greg already gave you his fearless predictions for the Superliga, while Sam dubbed his Ligue 1 forecast fail-proof, I decided to tell you how everything will play out in th
DFB-Pokal: First Round Summary
By Jan | August 7th, 2007The early rounds of the DFB-Pokal or any domestic cup competition are rare places, where negative, destructive and defensive football is cherished and encouraged. It's not about wanting the best team to win but rather the weakest - the lower the leag ...
Bundesliga 2007/2008: All Jerseys and Sponsors
By Jan | August 3rd, 2007I've tried to compile all the jerseys of all current Bundesliga clubs, so that we can judge, whether teams that are bound to play crap and go through a disappointing season at least die in beauty - or the other way round. I consider my work to be complete
Everybody loves Werder Bremen
By Jan | June 23rd, 2007At least according to the sports marketing company Sportfive. Sportfive conducted a little survey and asked 2000 people in Germany how they felt about football and Bundesliga clubs in particular. They upsampled the results to reflect the whole German popu
News, Rumours, Transfers for June 4, 2007
By Jan | June 4th, 2007Your favorite Bundesliga clubs have spent the last two weeks busily planning the next season. At the same time I have been too lazy to report anything about it. The ideal premise for a long post to catch up with everything. Transfer: Japanese midfield
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