Bundesliga 13/14

She's not among them. I think it must be Eurosport 2. Thanks a lot for all this help. She seem to be one mediocre woman this.
This girl?



Nandini Mitra
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Please do. She's in charge of the english interviews. She's got a german accent so it's obvious she's german. I think she's presenting the show. Today she was doing the job with some acne scare face.

Some acne scare face = Christian Ziege ;)

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Do you think we should have offered Heynckes a 2 deal and tasked him with making us the best side in Europe? Tough ask obviously.

You have to do it the right way. Heynckes is too nice to really sort out the thing and he is better in remodelling when somebody has already done the basics. Guardiola combines van Gaal and Heynckes - the work on the system even with the basics and the "nice" personality.

But first you have to clean up. Van Gaal is free after the World Cup and he thinks about coaching in England. You will get rid of all lazy players and he will find you some gems in the youth department - like he did with Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Müller, Badstuber, Alaba. Maybe you will find some players in strange positions afterwards - a winger will be a world beater as central midfield player - or he will tell that a young player that always has played in the midfield is born the perfect leftback, he just does not know it until now... He even might find an odd young player that somehow functions great from the beginning and goes from EPL youth league to best player at a bit competition or golden boot winner in a year.

If you are lucky the system will work after some months and you will get EPL champion, win the FA Cup and will get to the CL final. Your pass accuracy will improve, the technic will improve and you will not play hoofball anymore.

In the next year there will be problems with the officials and maybe some players and you will get rid of van Gaal. You will have a good team - maybe you can add some new players again - and you can look for a new coach that is "nice" to the players, now how to strengthen the defense and how to pet some of the players. But even the more difficult players will be able to work for the teams and will come with much more discipline...
 
Do you think we should have offered Heynckes a 2 deal and tasked him with making us the best side in Europe? Tough ask obviously.
I'm not sure Heynckes would have been the right manager for United or would have been equally successful as he was at Bayern. He knew the club and most of the players very well, when he came back. He knew the league and he took over a team that almost completed the transition. The team we saw last season was influenced by Klinsmann and van Gaal and Heynckes used the basics and tactics they taught the players and mixed them with a few new things to make it great. The ending of the 2011/12 season also helped to build up the determination we saw throughout last season. He was the perfect fit for Bayern but we were in a total different situation than United is now.

I doubt he would have taken the job anyway, he really wanted to retire and already promised his wife after the CL final 2012 that he will stop working this year.
 

It was actually not her. I think it was Zeige, but he had his head shaved yesterday. I think I will take a picture of the screen next time she's on and we'll solve it that way. It looks like there is an endless list of skinny brunettes as german "moderatorinnen".
 
GOAL - Hoffenheim 0-2 Leverkusen - Stefan Kiessling (70 mins)

Real controversy in Hoffenheim! Leverkusen striker Stefan Kiessling raises his hands to his temples after planting a free header into the Hoffenheim side-netting. He knows he should have done better.

But wait! The ball creeps through a hole in the net and is given as a goal by the referee. Unbelievable. Hoffenheim are understandably going nuts, but the referee is unrepentant. Think a disciplinary will be heading your way, ref. That is a shocker.

Looking forward to the GIFs.
 
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Thank you, good sir!
 
Mainz is as usual doing a great job containing Bayern. I'd love to see Tuchel at a big club soon, he's a brilliant tactician. We also miss Ribery in games like this, he's really the one player who can unlock any defense, but he's injured and out for a one or two weeks.

after 30 minutes:
Dortmund - Hannover 1:0 Reus scored a penalty
Braunschweg - Schalke 1:1 Meyer scored for Schalke
Bremen - Freiburg 0:0
Bayern - Mainz 0:0
Frankfurt - Nürnberg 0:0
 
Parker scores for Mainz and we look completely clueless. Hopefully Götze comes on for the second half.
 
Brilliant how Götze changed the second half. Crazy subs by Guardiola, looks like we play with 3 at the back now and the 3 are Lahm, Boateng and Contento :lol:.

Götze after 5 minutes in the second half with a brilliant assist to Robben, 2 minutes later Müller scores the 2-1
 
A combination of yet another tactical masterpiece of Mainz's Thomas Tuchel and the typical "after international break"-fatigue (also mentioned by Dortmunds Klopp btw) lead to an interesting match. Bayern shifted up several gears after the halftime break, so the win was a goal or two too high, but undoubtedly deserved.
Dortmund scored a lucky narrow win over Hannover who are downright toothless away from home this season for some reason.
Also Schalke, the third german team with a huge amount of international players, struggled to score a narrow victory over freshly promoted underdogs Braunschweig.
HSV after changing the coach showed improvement and drew 3-3 at home against a strong Stuttgart side. Surprise team Hertha BSC continue to stick to the extended top of the league after beating Mönchengladbach at home 1-0.
 
Bayern down at home to Berlin, they'll probably win 5-1 in the end
Maybe, but Hertha is playing really great so far, they attack and defend fearless, brilliant to watch. Götze coming in for Kroos, who seems to be injured.
 
Crazy atmosphere at Veltins Arena in 'Revierderby'. 0-1 for Borussia so far in, match began 5 minutes later due to flares and smoke flares thrown on the pitch.
 
Diouf's been sent off just twelve minutes into the Hannover game.

 
fecks sake no pen at all feck off

Weindenfeller saves !

By the way 2 replacements in Bayern's game WTF Balu ?

Kroos was injured, not sure about Robben, but I think I saw him limping, so most likely also because of an inury or as precaution.

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Hertha is still looking good at the beginning of the second half and our injury crisis continues. We get Götze back and Thiago and Martinez start training again, but then loose Dante, Shaqiri, Pizarro for weeks and now Robben and Kroos are out, hopefully it's not too serious.
 
At least we have a plan B, selling shit goalkeepers to our opponents and freekicks on Mandzukic's head, 2-1 now.

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3-1 Götze scores a header :lol:.
 
Ffs. 3-2 now. Hertha is playing really well and we are lucky to be in the lead.
 
Ffs. 3-2 now. Hertha is playing really well and we are lucky to be in the lead.

Well, they were in 4th position when this matchday began and from the looks of it still in the form that put them there...
 
Well, they were in 4th position when this matchday began and from the looks of it still in the form that put them there...
Yeah, but that usually doesn't mean a lot when teams come to Munich. Often enough they park the bus and shit themselves even if they play great the weeks before, Leverkusen and Schalke are the prime examples. Hertha did neither and deserved a draw, glad we got away with it today.
 
Yeah, but that usually doesn't mean a lot when teams come to Munich. Often enough they park the bus and shit themselves even if they play great the weeks before, Leverkusen and Schalke are the prime examples. Hertha did neither and deserved a draw, glad we got away with it today.

The last two of Bayerns Bundesliga matches were against teams coached by the most resourceful tacticians in the league. It showed.

No one mentioned BVB win against Schalke (1-3) in the hardest-fought derby in the country. All of Dortmund will be very happy indeed after two losses last season. Prince Boateng could have stopped that from happening, but bottled a penalty and other good opportunities.
 
Freiburg 0-3 Hamburg after 65 minutes

3 unbelievable mistakes from goalkeeper Baumann :lol: ...........i have never seen so many and crazy mistakes from a goalkeeper before in a single game :lol:
Ter Stegen and Trapp are trying their best to make Baumann not look like the only fool today :lol: .
 
:lol: He's usually a solid goalkeeper, no idea what was wrong with him yesterday. Crazy stuff. I feel really sorry for Freiburg, they played a brilliant season last year, fully deserve to play in the Europa League. Then lost most of their top players in the summer and along with them all confidence. They played often really good and individual mistakes cost them time and time again, in Europe and in the league. I really hope they turn it around, Streich is such an amazing manager and it would be a shame if they go down.
 
How is that anything but fixed, Balu? A kid from the crowd would've performed better.
 
How is that anything but fixed, Balu? A kid from the crowd would've performed better.
How do I know? Maybe someone drugged his drink? Maybe he fell on his head in the morning and had a severe concussion, maybe he has serious problems with his eyes? Maybe he just had the shittiest day ever.
 
How is that anything but fixed, Balu? A kid from the crowd would've performed better.

Why would he let in three goals like that if it was? I think it's way too obvious to be fixed really - he was just having a nightmare out there. Confidence got shot after the first goal and the second goal is poor technique (clearly in doubt whether he's inside the box when he tries to grab the ball and then hits it with his leg when he actually tries to catch it).
 
If it happens once, then I'd say it's unlucky.

But three times? Unfortunately for him, Jogi Löw was in the stadium - could explain why he was nervous perhaps.
 
I would trust any keeper of that caliber to make his intentional errors less obvious.

It is also highly unlikely with a player like Baumann. He is their captain for several years and had more lucrative offers from other clubs (Schalke was appearantly highly interested in him) in the summer. He unlike a lot of other key players stayed and even extended his contract instead. He also won them several points in the past. The thought that he would intently damage his club after the commitment he showed to them in the past is hardly believable. He just had a really shitty day.
 
I think it's really sad that everytime something really unexpected happens in football these days, people start to mention game manipulation. Crazy stuff happens from time to time, it's part of the game, it always was and it really should increase the fun we all have while watching. And afaik most of the game fixing in the past took place in games where expected things happened. It's about making sure that you win, not about making sure that you win the most money with one crazy game that the whole world will notice.

Baumann had a really really shitty day, that's it, really unbelievable shitty day.
 
Dortmund a goal down at home to Stuttgart after 12 minutes. Should be a good game now.

BTW, are they palying Arsenal on Wed? Two more days of rest if they are.