Saturday 29 September 2007

Bundesliga: Day Eight - Bayern keeps rolling, Bremen storms over Bielefeld

FC Schalke 04 - Hertha BSC Berlin 1:0
Werder Bremen - Arminia Bielefeld 8:1
Bayer Leverkusen - Bayern München 0:1
Hamburger SV - VfL Wolfsburg 2:2
VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 3:3
Karlsruher SC - Borussia Dortmund 3:1
FC Hansa Rostock - VfB Stuttgart 2:1
Hannover 96 - MSV Duisburg 2:1
FC Energie Cottbus - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:2

Things seem to settle down a little bit as the favourites in the Bundesliga get wins. Bremen e.g. crushed Bielefeld, who were the surprise team for the past few weeks. 8:1 marks the highest home victoty for the northern side, at least that's what they said on the radio. Meanwhile Bayern seems to be unstoppable. Leverkusen were playing really well the past rounds but without their midfield ace Bernd "Schnix" Schneider ("The White Brazilian" as they call him) they went down 0-1 at home. Dortmund completely lost track after winning three straight now losing two in a row, this weekend end against Karlsruhe. At the bottom of the table Rostock seem to have found their strength beating champions Stuttgart. It reamains to be seen if this is because of Stuttgart being in a new situation where they have to play a match every three days (Champions League and Bundesliga). Schalke moved closer to the top winning against Hertha Berlin who lost their second straight match.
So the table at the top looks like this:

1 Bayern
2 Schalke
3 Karlsruhe
4 Leverkusen
5 Bremen


Karlsruhe shouldn't be up there but all the other teams were expected to climb up sooner or later. Let's wait and see how long promoted Karlsruhe will stay there.

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