

Articles tagged with "matchdays"
Matchday 12: Captain Future
By Jan | November 10th, 2009The clubs at the top of the table keep crawling along. The clubs at the bottom keep sinking. Referees had a forgettable weekend and in ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 4: Hertha FCB
By Jan | November 5th, 20093 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat for Bundesliga clubs in Europe this week. The good news is that five out of six have it ...
Matchday 11: A Day at the Snail Races
By Jan | November 2nd, 2009The top of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hoffenheim to close the gap but not much more. The bottom of the league collectively dropped ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 3: It Takes Two
By Jan | October 22nd, 20092 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost ...
The Numbers Game: Matchday 9
By Jan | October 19th, 2009It wasn't a good weekend for exciting football. It was a good weekend for exciting numbers. Or rather, a good weekend for those who can ...
Bundesliga Matchday 8: The Tragedy of Errors
By Jan | October 5th, 2009Establishing something comparable to England's Big Four remains a distant dream for last season's top four in the Bundesliga. Wolfsburg are 7th after disappointingly drawing ...
The Story of Germany's Reunification (as told by the Bundesliga)
By Jan | October 5th, 2009Saturday's Bundesliga action coincided with the 19th anniversary of Germany's reunification, which conveniently is also the country's national holiday - albeit without lethal fireworks or ...
Bundesliga Matchday 7: Ze Roberto to F4. Checkmate.
By Jan | September 28th, 2009Hamburg remain in control of the top, Hertha remain in control of the bottom and with his wins over Bochum, Dortmund and the Schalke fans ...
Bundesliga Matchday 6 Wrap-Up
By Jan | September 21st, 2009Extra Time. We can end the debate about where the seven minutes of extra time came from in the Manchester derby. They were taken from ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 1 Wrap-Up
By Jan | September 17th, 2009Three wins, two draws and one defeat makes for a balanced but not too glorious start to this year's European season. Wolfsburg. You are never too ...
Bundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What is the Same?
By Jan | September 2nd, 2009Sorry for letting this blog rot away in the late August sun for so many weeks. Other work took over and left some time but ...
DFB-Pokal First Round: Famous 45, Heroic 90, Epic 120 and Transcendental 119:57
By Jan | August 5th, 2009There is much to like about the DFB-Pokal. First of all, its' format contrasts nicely with all other season long competitions. A pure knockout tournament. ...
Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog
By Jan | May 23rd, 2009What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I'll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal ...
Wolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.
By Jan | May 18th, 2009Uli Hoeness predicted that this championship won't be decided on goal difference, but rather that someone would slip up, and he was right albeit in ...
Borussia Mönchengladbach's Great Last Minute Escape
By Jan | May 14th, 2009When it all comes down to it, it doesn't matter how they did it. There wasn't all that much football on display in Borussia Mönchengladbach's last ...
Kinhöfer pulls an Øvrebø as Bayern Dusel returns
By Jan | May 12th, 2009Bayern eventually overcome Klinsmann's bad karma with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Leverkusen and with referee Thorsten Kinhöfer still confused about what constitutes a penalty ...
Manuel Neuer overcomes Bayern Trauma - Bayern overcome Klinsmann Trauma
By Jan | April 27th, 2009This is not Manuel Neuer's way of paying tribute to one of Germany's best ever goalkeepers - it is his way to exact revenge. Revenge ...
Jens Lehmann makes a good Touchdown Pass Receiver
By Jan | April 5th, 2009On Friday Jens Lehmann signed his contract extension and on Saturday he decided to give something back to his fans. In Stuttgart's away game against ...
Solo Goals Galore: Raffael and Grafite and Krzynowek
By Jan | April 4th, 2009It was an uncharacteristic match for Hertha Berlin against Borussia Dortmund (1-3). Their defense and goalkeeper weren't infallible and their offense wasted dozens of chances ...
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23
By Jan | March 7th, 2009A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Pacific Standard ...
DFB-Pokal Quarter-Final Round-Up
By Jan | March 4th, 2009Eight teams went in, four went out and on the surface the romance of the cup is alive and well. On the inside, those teams ...
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 22
By Jan | February 28th, 2009A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Peru Time ...
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 21
By Jan | February 20th, 2009A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. I modified the format a bit and introduced ...
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 20
By Jan | February 13th, 2009A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. *** Friday Trivial pre-match stats: Hoffenheim have lost four out of ...
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 19
By Jan | February 8th, 2009Waking this blog from its' winter sleep was long overdue and what better way to do it, than with a completely experimental feature, which I ...
Matchday 10: Four Fine Goals
By Jan | October 23rd, 2007Bundesliga.de recaps this weekends four best goals in a little feature. And if you need some moving images to go along with the article, then ...
Matchday 5: Snapshots
By Jan | September 18th, 2007Schalke's coach Mirko Slomka tries to motivate his players by performing an excerpt from Mozart's Don Giovanni (Bayern Munich 1-1 Schalke). Nuremberg's coach Hans Meyer tries ...
Matchday 4: Best of the Weekend
By Jan | September 4th, 2007Best goal celebration a) Manasseh Ishiaku (MSV Duisburg) b) A team effort by Boubacar Sanogo, Diego and Hugo Almeida (Werder Bremen) Best young goalkeeper a) Manuel Neuer (Schalke 04) b) ...
Matchday 4: Side by Side
By Jan | September 4th, 2007Borussia Dortmund's Coach Thomas Doll. Hansa Rostock 0-1 Borussia Dortmund. Hamburg's goalkeeper Frank Rost. Hamburger SV 1-1 Bayern Munich.
League Cup: 1. FC Nürnberg 2 - 4 Schalke 04
By Jan | July 24th, 2007It has been a good night for Schalke 04 - on and potentially off the pitch. On the pitch they comfortably beat DFB Cup winners Nuremberg ...





