Bundesliga - Day 18: Back to action

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

So finally the long wait is over. The Bundesliga is back on track. But when I take into account what the match looked like yesterday evening we're not in for some nice football action for the remaining 16 rounds. This was plainly ugly. Bayern and Rostock were looking like they were still half asleep from their winter break. Very slow reactions and almost no flow in their game. You would expect something like this from a team which is threatened by relegation (Rostock) but the 75 mio. Bayern team should be able to do a lot more than this. Anyway, they won - as they always do: play ugly, win with the very least of effort - and are staying on top of the table.
The matches on Saturday weren't as interesting to me since the Rugby Six Nations started today so I was only listening halfheartedly to the radio coverage. Dortmund vs Duisburg must have been an entertaining match and it seems that Dortmund was celebrating the win against Bremen in the national cup competition on Wednesday a little bit too much. Leverkusen turned the game around against Cottbus after being down 0-1. And it looks very dark for Arminia Bielefeld who lost to Wolfsburg who might have gained a little self-esteem under the week by beating Schalke in the DFB-Pokal. Hertha - as almost always - just doesn't seem to get back on track. Frankfurt on the other hand seems to make the most out of their limited budget. All of their goals seemed to have been scored by a new player, Martin Fenin.
Tomorrow Bremen and Schalke will take action and try to stay close to the top.

In the 2nd division the so called "carnival club" 1.FC Cologne dropped vital points in their match against FC St. Pauli (1-1) which didn't help them to strengthen their grip on a promotion spot.