Although I didn't really have a chance to watch any of the matches of the first round of the Uefa Cup I still read an interesting comment by German sports writer Christoph Biermann who said that it is nice to see that the smaller teams of the German Bundesliga all made it through to the group stage this year. Keeping in mind that the almighty Bayern Munich are in there for Germany as well compared to other European superpowers the result doesn't look that bad for Germany. England lost a team (Blackburn), there's one Spanish team out (Saragossa) as well and Italy even lost 3 (Palermo, Empoli, Sampdoria) in the first round of play. Although the Spanish Primera Division seems to be a little more balanced England and Italy just have the same top teams playing in the Champions League and the rest of the pack just has to fight for what's left on the table. And while German teams are struggling in the Champions League (3 teams, 6 games, 5 losses up until today) it seems they have more chances in the Uefa Cup. Hamburger SV went through against Litex Lovetch (BUL), 1.FC Nuremburg got past Rapid Bukarest (ROM), Bayer Leverkusen managed to beat Uniao Leiria (POR) and Bayern Munich expectedly threw Belenenses Lisboa (POR) out of the competition. With the group stages now coming up it'll be interesting to see what the German teams can do there.
Friday 5 October 2007
Uefa Cup: All German teams go through to the group stages
Although I didn't really have a chance to watch any of the matches of the first round of the Uefa Cup I still read an interesting comment by German sports writer Christoph Biermann who said that it is nice to see that the smaller teams of the German Bundesliga all made it through to the group stage this year. Keeping in mind that the almighty Bayern Munich are in there for Germany as well compared to other European superpowers the result doesn't look that bad for Germany. England lost a team (Blackburn), there's one Spanish team out (Saragossa) as well and Italy even lost 3 (Palermo, Empoli, Sampdoria) in the first round of play. Although the Spanish Primera Division seems to be a little more balanced England and Italy just have the same top teams playing in the Champions League and the rest of the pack just has to fight for what's left on the table. And while German teams are struggling in the Champions League (3 teams, 6 games, 5 losses up until today) it seems they have more chances in the Uefa Cup. Hamburger SV went through against Litex Lovetch (BUL), 1.FC Nuremburg got past Rapid Bukarest (ROM), Bayer Leverkusen managed to beat Uniao Leiria (POR) and Bayern Munich expectedly threw Belenenses Lisboa (POR) out of the competition. With the group stages now coming up it'll be interesting to see what the German teams can do there.
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