Tag: German Bundesliga

  • Christoph Kramer Scores The Best/Worst Own Goal of the Season

    Christoph Kramer Scores The Best/Worst Own Goal of the Season

    Borussia Dortmund needed a win badly, and they got it thanks to one of the most bizarre own goals we’ve seen in the last few years, as Christoph Kramer of Borussia Monchengladbach mishandled a back pass to his own goalkeeper, chipping it over him from almost the halfway line.

  • Bayern Munich Hold Werder Bremen to 0 Shots on Goal

    Bayern Munich Hold Werder Bremen to 0 Shots on Goal

    For the first time since such data has been collected in the German Bundesliga, a team went through an entire match without taking a single shot at goal. Bayern Munich beat Werder Bremen 6-0 without a single moment of feeling threatened.

  • Bundesliga – Bayern Munich Feel Normal, Dortmund Slightly Worried

    Bundesliga – Bayern Munich Feel Normal, Dortmund Slightly Worried

    It’s not the first time Dortmund have been upset at home, but it’s been a long time since Die Schwarzgelben have found it so difficult to dominate a match they’re hosting or creating an abundance of chances. For Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga didn’t come with a perfect start, but good enough to not be too concerned about anything.

  • Champions League – Five Thoughts After the First Leg

    Champions League – Five Thoughts After the First Leg

    The first eight matches in Champions League round of 16 highlights just how far the Premier League’s elite clubs have fallen, the away goals that don’t really matter anymore, a German Bundesliga being overrated and raise a question regarding the absence of Italian teams from this stage.

  • Borussia Dortmund – Mats Hummels Epitomizes the Lack of Luck

    Borussia Dortmund – Mats Hummels Epitomizes the Lack of Luck

    There’s not much Jurgen Klopp is asking for – just a defender or two back from their injuries. Just when he thought Mats Hummels was coming back from his, it turns out he’ll be out for two more weeks, leaving Dortmund once again with only one player in the back four that originally was planned to start there.

  • Borussia Dortmund Can’t Beat Anyone Good

    Borussia Dortmund Can’t Beat Anyone Good

    The interesting thing about the five losses Borussia Dortmund have picked up so far this season? All of them have come against the rest of the top 6 – Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Borussia Monchengladbach, Wolfsubrg and now Hertha Berlin.

  • West Ham Have More Goalless Draws Than The Entire Bundesliga

    West Ham Have More Goalless Draws Than The Entire Bundesliga

    In one of the least surprising statistical revelations of 2013, we find out that West Ham are quite boring to watch. How boring? With five goalless draws this season already, the Hammers have surpassed all Bundesliga teams since the start of the season, managing only four among them. West Ham have scored 13 league goals […]

  • Bundesliga – Dortmund vs Bayern Munich Predictions

    Bundesliga – Dortmund vs Bayern Munich Predictions

    On most days over the last couple of seasons, the Bundesliga clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich is the best club football match available anywhere in the world. However, with so many injuries to the home side on defense while the German and European champions are missing their best player (Franck Ribery), even the return of Mario Gotze to the team he grew up in won’t make this the match it could have been.

  • A Big Weekend of Title-Deciding Football

    A Big Weekend of Title-Deciding Football

    The Bundesliga has been a two-horse race for the last three years, and even that might be over if Bayern Munich get the best of the injury-struck Borussia Dortmund when the two Champions League finalists from last season meet over the weekend. In the Premier League, it’s the Merseyside Derby that takes most of the attention with Liverpool and Everton clashing, but Arsenal against the very surprising Southampton is just as important to the top 4 picture if not more.

  • Bayern Munich vs Dortmund – Nothing Changes in the Bundesliga

    Bayern Munich vs Dortmund – Nothing Changes in the Bundesliga

    For now, we’re at something of a status-quo, as Bayern Munich keep their one point lead over Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga. While the champions got themselves in a complicated situation against Hertha Berlin (still coming up with the 3-2 win), Dortmund were fantastic in their 3-2 win over Schalke, claiming their first Revierderby after two consecutive losses.