Articles tagged with "fc-schalke-04"
Tactical Analysis: Schalke v. Stuttgart
By Johnny on the Spot | February 5th, 2008I don’t know who had the worse game for Stuttgart. Andreas Beck slotted in on the right and was called for two hand balls ...
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 ...
Transfers: The Summer Signings in Review
By Jan | February 1st, 2008The winter transfer window has just been closed, the second half of the season is about to kick off in a few hours and I ...
Five Things we learned from the DFB Pokal Round of Sixteen
By Jan | January 31st, 2008The DFB Pokal offered a little prelude to this weekend’s Bundesliga action with Bayern Munich playing an away match against a third division club in ...
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 ...
In Numbers: Europe's Five Big Leagues at the Halfway Point of the Season
By Jan | January 24th, 2008The Bundesliga is still in hibernation, while all other big European leagues are already fully enjoying their second half of the season. It's a little ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Two Weeks to go
By Jan | January 21st, 2008Or one and a half weeks, if you count in the DFB Cup. That is one and a half weeks full of winter break bridging ...
Why Bayern / Bremen / Hamburg / ... will win the Title
By Jan | January 9th, 2008Why Bayern Munich will win the title If Bayern's rivals had plans to beat them to the title, they should have done so in the first ...
This just in: UEFA Cup and Champions League Draw
By Jan | December 21st, 2007The UEFA Cup and Champions League draw just took place. The lone Bundesliga representative Schalke 04 picked up FC Porto as their next opponent in ...
Gary Lineker's Secret Child?
By Jan | December 19th, 2007Gary Lineker is 47 and Manuel Neuer is 21 - it's possible. It's just that English and great goalkeeper don't go together. So, probably not.
Matchday 17: Bayern win first (imaginary) Title of the Season
By Jan | December 18th, 2007The first half of the season is officially over, and Bayern have claimed the so called Herbstmeisterschaft (autumn championship), which doesn't mean anything and isn't ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: En Garde!
By Jan | December 15th, 2007Bayern Munich did their best to keep us entertained during the week with their dressing room catfights. Basically all European clubs kept us entertained in ...
Champions League: Schalke 04... of all Teams
By Jan | December 11th, 2007Schalke were the least likely of all Bundesliga teams to advance. All credit for this achievement goes to Rosenborg Trondheim. Without their heroics against Valencia, ...
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 ...
Can You Schalke 04?
By Jan | December 7th, 2007Two months ago EA Sports launched their Can You FIFA 08? campaign, in which the likes of Klose and Ribery (or Ronaldinho or Rooney and ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Picks of the Week
By Jan | November 30th, 2007This week has been all about: Friendship - or lack of. (Hertha Offside) Team mates - or lack of. (Werder Offside) Beards. (Bundesliga Offside) Buttocks. (Bundesliga Offside) Kits. (Bundesliga Offside) European ...
Champions League Matchday 5: Late Bloomers
By Jan | November 30th, 2007Just as the Bundesliga clubs were all a little late to the Champions League party, I'm a little late with this short wrap up. But ...
Matchday 13: Comebacks
By Jan | November 27th, 2007Thirty goals spread out over nine matches made for an entertaining weekend, that nonetheless left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. Mostly because it lacked any ...
Beardwatch: Kevin Kuranyi
By Jan | November 26th, 2007Kevin Kuranyi has once again proven his worth for Schalke 04 this weekend. Schalke beat Hanover 3-2 and Kuranyi scored the first two goals himself ...
Matchday 13: Time to move a bit closer together and have a Title Race
By Jan | November 12th, 2007It's buckling the trend time in the Bundesliga. So much so in fact, that I'll do my whole matchday report in form of buckled trends. Global ...
Snapshot: Kevin Kuranyi
By Jan | November 7th, 2007Schalke's injured Kevin Kuranyi during the Champions League match against Chelsea. Seeing how Schalke dominated Chelsea, it's a shame that he couldn't help them find ...
Champions League: Ifs and thens
By Jan | November 6th, 2007One half of this week's Champions League matchday is over, though since Stuttgart is basically dead already, I can start sketching out my favourite scenarios ...
Matchday 11: Twelve
By Jan | October 29th, 2007Twelve goals are better than eleven. Otherwise this matchday would have equaled the Bundesliga's negative record. The 26th matchday of the 1989/1990 season and the ...
Matchday 10: We're Chasing Bayern on a Moped
By Jan | October 23rd, 2007That's how Karlsruhe's coach Ede Becker described the club's situation in the title race, after they claimed the second place in the table two weeks ...
Matchday 9: Fan Made
By Jan | October 10th, 2007Frustrated Schalke fans prematurely leave the stadium during the Schalke - Karlsruhe match. Photo by alice_c.
Matchday 9: "We are going to spend like never before (...) We want our rivals to have to follow our progress at the top of the table through binoculars." - Uli Hoeneß
By Jan | October 10th, 2007A busy schedule kept me from blogging the last couple of days. So here is a late matchday 9 summary, for completeness' sake. Nothing much ...
Weekly Dose 09.10.07
By Jan | October 8th, 2007Why Jürgen Klinsmann enjoys life in California. (Reuters Soccer Blog) Why Jürgen Klinsmann didn't take the Chelsea job and why he isn't desperately looking for a ...
European Misery: Werder Bremen makes it 5 Defeats from 6 Matches for the Bundesliga
By Jan | October 3rd, 2007Werder Bremen 1 - 3 Olympiakos Piräus If you take a very cautious look at the opponents, the Bundesliga had to face so far, you could ...
It's a Shame we're not in the Champions League
By Jan | September 20th, 2007Says Luca Toni and says Uli Hoeneß. And it's probably old habits that make Bayern Munich speak more about the Champions League than the competition ...
Champions League: Previews
By Jan | September 18th, 2007The new Champions League season (if you exclude all the qualifying matches) is less than an hour away and the Bundesliga clubs will start their ...
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