Sunday 11 November 2007

Bundesliga: Day Thirteen - At last, the crisis!

MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:2
FC Schalke 04 - Hamburger SV 1:1
FC Hansa Rostock - FC Energie Cottbus 3:2
SV Werder Bremen - Karlsruher SC 4:0
VfB Stuttgart - Bayern München 3:1
Borussia Dortmund - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:1
Hertha BSC Berlin - Hannover 96 1:0
VfL Wolfsburg - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1:2
DSC Arminia Bielefeld - 1.FC Nürnberg 3:1

Here we go again, the Invincibles, the untouchable Bayern team who everybody thought to easily walk through the season without conceding a loss in all 34 championship matches, that Bayern team lost this weekend to defending champions Stuttgart. And it wasn't as if BAyern was unlucky, no, Stuttgart deserved to win. Bayern was completely helpless. And now, as always, the whole country is talking about Bayern's crisis. That a common thing the media does when Bayern loses a match. And now that they haven't won in four matches (draws against Dortmund 0-0, Frankfurt 0-0 and Bolton Wanderers 2-2) they are looking for reasons. Now as much as I love to see Bayern lose it's just pathetic how people change their opinions so suddenly. A few weeks ago this team was the biggest show in German football and now they are just a bunch of helpless idiots? Come on, you gotta be kidding me. This just shows that certain people consider Bayern to be German football and those people sit in offices at e.g. the biggest tabliod, the only free TV sports station or at Germany's biggest football magazine. It's a complete joke.Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld gave life to a team who were lying on the floor in the past season. He now has the best line up in the German Bundesliga and he now has lost one match. That's right, we are talking about one match. And the big bosses in Munich start to get nervous. Hilarious. There's this TV program called "Doppelpass" some sort of chat show with football topics and this represents at best what the German media is like. They always have one writer from Germany's largest tabloid "Bild" sitting there. Then they have Germany's most senile and retarded "expert" Udo Lattek, a guy who had success in the 70s and 80s but since didn't seem to have moved one inch. He always talking about his players having to "eat grass" in order to win. A relict from a time long forgotten. And then the program has a call in section where the viewers can voice their opinion on the current state of German football. And this is where it really gets funny, 'cause I think that some of the calls definetely have to be fake. Those callers most of the times side with what the panel has to say and they usually sound like they've written down what they wanted to express before they reached for their phone.
Anyway, I still believe that there is no way that another team will win this year's championship since the rest of the pack is playing way too unsteady. Schalke and Hamburg drew on Saturday (1-1), Bremen beat Karlsruhe (4-0) and by doing so sent the promoted side back to where it belongs. Down the table Rostock beat Cottbus (3-2) in an all east German derby, Bochum won against Duisburg (2-0) and Dortmund drew with Frankfurt (1-1).

And way down the leagues Fortuna Cologne got back on track for their campaign towards promotion. They won 2-0 against Troisdorf on Friday!

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