German Football 2024/2025

[JoVel]

This game had the feeling of another BVB classic but they managed to pull it off. First away win of the season, just in time before the new year.

 

[Power Man]

Bensebaini taking corner kicks now?

Not where you want him to be on set pieces, but it worked today lol

 

[cgf]

I know I got heat for already including Musiala and Wirtz in my NT of the century, but it's hard not to feel like we should get more out of their primes than we did the Özil / Müller / Kroos / Hummels / Neuer generation, despite that age group's more balanced distribution of talent. These kids are well on their way to being our best outfield players of the 21st Century, and the supporting cast is rounding into shape.

Undav, Burkardt, Havertz, Kleindienst, Füllkrug, etc. have really turned striker into a position of strength, that we can withstand some injuries too. Similarly, Andrich, Nmecha, Pavlovic, Stiller, Martel, etc. have assuaged the massive concerns I had about our double-6 in the post-Kroos era. Even the back 4 + GK no longer cause me any anxiety, with Baumann and Ortega perfectly capable of holding the fort until MAtS is back to 100%.

Just need 1.FCU to find some more goals in the ruckrunde and this will be a delightful season of sport for me!


...especially after the Knicks stay magically healthy in the playoffs and get through the murderer's row at the top of the east to win their first title of my lifetime...

 

[Jack Straw]

I mean, look what it did for Mo Salah

 

[JoVel]

Really looking forward to this game.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

No wirtz or Palacios or Boniface?

 

[cgf]

Bahahahaha, brutal start for BVB but that was too funny.

 

[Savant]

No wirtz or Palacios or Boniface?

Did you see Dortmund’s backline?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Did you see Dortmund’s backline?

Just got off work. Wanted to put it on the Paz show just to see him limp off . Guess I’ll watch this .

 

[gary69]

In the first half, Leverkusen's wing play and passes were impressive and Schick kept on finishing well.
Hradecky with couple of good saves.

But Dortmund should still be able to score more.

 

[Jack Straw]

How did Schick avoid scoring there? Nice save but still.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

That’s an outrageous penalty to call.

 

[cgf]

Xhaka's hair looks so much worse than it did before the transplant...

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Wirtz still not bought is legitimately crazy. City should have a free run.

 

[cgf]

Wirtz still not bought is legitimately crazy. City should have a free run.

Kid knows how good he is. He's being very intentional with his career and not rushing to cash in at the first opportunity...plus it's not like the pillpushers pay poorly.

 

[Jack Straw]

Frankfurt flub two chances at an open net. Wow.

 

[cgf]

Ugh, if we can't find more goals in the ruckrunde, we'll be back in the relegation battle. Unfortunate timing from Rothe but he deserved to see red.

...I sometimes can't help wondering what would've happened if we had been able to complete the Boniface deal before Bayer & the bigger clubs started sniffing around him, and hadn't been forced to settle for Fofana.

We got crap results in the CL (2pts), but we never lost by more than a goal, and having a striker like Boniface could've easily swung some of those results. Plus we wouldn't have gone on that long losing streak if we hadn't been so utterly toothless.

He probably would've been gone on to bigger and brighter pastures unless we had been the ones chasing Leverkusen in Stuttgart's stead...but our trajectory would be very different right now.

 

[Power Man]

Shortest player on the pitch, WTF

 

[gary69]

That Prass miss was certainly the worst miss of the day/week and candidate for miss of the season. Still, Hoffenheim have good enough squad to be safely a midtable team, not threatened with relegation battle like they now are.

Of course I woudn't mind them being replaced by one of he traditional big clubs currently languishing in the 2.BL.