

Articles tagged with "schalke-04"
10 Things we learned from Matchday 26
By Jan | March 31st, 20081. Nothing. The teams at the top of the table couldn't win their games. The teams at the bottom of the table didn't lose their games. ...
5 Things the Bundesliga Offside Bloggers learned from Matchday 25
By Jan | March 27th, 2008I spent my weekend telling lies to my relatives, which depending on their age were about bunnies and candy, and depending on their favourite team, ...
Not Bad, But Not Good Enough
By Abby | March 24th, 2008That just about sums up Sunday's game against Schalke 04. Not bad. Not good enough, but not bad. Considering that Schalke are definitely a decent ...
We Need A Pretty Goalkeeper: Schalke 04 Preview!
By Abby | March 22nd, 2008The next visitors to the Olympiastadion, challenging our six-game unbeaten streak, are Schalke 04. Currently ranked fifth in the table, the only German side in ...
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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Welcome on Board
By Jan | March 16th, 2008Captain Bastian Schweinsteiger would like to welcome you on board of the Allianz Arena. Lift off to a different galaxy of football will be delayed ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 23
By Jan | March 11th, 20081. It have been tough 42 hours for Bremen. You can heap quite a bit of misery on a club in a timeframe of just 42 ...
5 Things we learned in Europe this Week
By Jan | March 7th, 20081. It's the knockout rounds, stupid. Going by league and group stage performances, Tim Wiese clearly looks the better keeper than Manuel Neuer. Blunders against Valencia ...
Manuel Neuer can save Penalties (and Mirko Slomka)
By Jan | March 5th, 2008It was an overall poor performance by Schalke, who were dominated by FC Porto and hardly managed to keep possession, especially once they tried to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Snapshot: Manuel Neuer strikes a Deal
By Jan | February 20th, 2008Here is Schalke's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after the Champions League match against FC Porto (1-0). Maybe he's completing a real estate deal.
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, ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 19
By Jan | February 12th, 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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Familiar Faces in unfamiliar Places
By Jan | February 8th, 2008Tracked down and chronicled with love and care by our team of bloggers. Lothar Matthäus in a Knight Rider episode. (Bundesliga Offside) The German national team in ...
die Tabelle lügen nicht! (02/07)
By Johnny on the Spot | February 7th, 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 ...
Weekly Dose 6.2.08
By Jan | February 6th, 2008They are making jokes about Bielefeld's (ex-)coach of the century (Power) Ernst Middendorp down in South Africa. (allAfrica.com) A puff-piece about Jogi Löw. (uefa.com) An article about ...
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 ...
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 ...
Name to Remember: Nikon Jevtic, aka "The Miracle Child"
By chris | January 18th, 2008If age is any indication, it's going to be a long time before you hear this kid's name again. If his rumored exploits against older ...
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 ...
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 ...





