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Bundesliga watch round 2

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rurikbird

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Bayern–Schalke 2:0. Ancelotti gave a full debut to Renato Sanches, otherwise keeping the same team. From the highlights it seemed like a fairly even game and Bayern couldn't find a breakthrough until 80th minute, when a quite brilliant Javi Martinez's (playing at CB) through-ball found Lewandowski 1 on 1 with the keeper. Kimmich scored his first ever Bundesliga goal on the break deep in stoppage time. Schalke manager Marcus Weinzirl made 6 (!) changes after the fairly awful first round defeat to Eintracht, with a completely new midfield and a new CB partnership. Gorezka played at #10, Konoplyanka, who just came from Sevilla, was given his debut (subbed after 45 minutes due to lack of fitness, but he looked lively). Our summer targets Breel Embolo and Max Meyer came on in the 2nd half. Overall Schalke looked much more solid than in the first game, so maybe Weinzirl is on the right track.

Freiburg-Gladbach 3:1. Borussia was totally outplayed this time. Dahoud was an unused sub again – a really strange situation and I can only assume it's some kind of disciplinary punishment for trying to force a move or something like that. They have the same manager as last season, so it's not like he suddenly stopped rating a player that was key for them last season. @Kay Age El's loveboy Christensen didn't have a good game – at least 2 big mistakes.

Bayer–Hamburg 3:1. The story of the game was an 11-minute hat-trick by the substitute young Finnish striker Joel Pohjanpalo. He also scored minutes after coming off the bench in the first round; he's got to start the next game, right? Right now he is tied with Lewandowski in goals having played only 30 minutes in two games.

RB Leipzig-Dortmund 1:0. I praised Leipzig for their fearlessness in the first round and now they have a big scalp to show for it. I think Tuchel, much like the his Schalke counterpart, is rather frenetically searching for a new team balance after a lot of summer comings and goings. In the first round Dortmund started with 5 attacking players crammed into defensive positions (kind of like us this season) and had to thank their goalkeeper for keeing them in the game against Mainz. Now Tuchel completely changed the balance with 2 DMs in Rode and Weigl and a pretty "safe" front 4 of Aubumeyang, Gotze, Schurrle and Castro. This time they struggled to create any meaningful chances for most of the game and only livened up after Dembele and Guerreiro came on for Gotze and Castro. Dembele's sense of balance and swagger look incredible, but his decision-making needs work – there was one time when he sat a defender on his ass with an outrageous turn, then inexplicably turned back the other way to run into the player that was lying on the grass and lost the ball! Leipzig tried to respond to every attack with one of their own and were rewarded with a winner in the 89th minute. So far Tuchel seems to be at a loss as to what to do with all these new players. Pulisic stayed on the bench.

Other tidbits: Best game of the round was surely Mainz-Hoffenheim, where Mainz went down to 10 men leading 4:1 and it finished 4:4... Darmstadt won a local derby against Frankfurt with a 90-minute incredibly lucky goal (a mis-hit cross that flew into the top corner) after Frankfurt totally dominated possession and chances for 89 minutes – the Darmstadt fans were absolutely delirious with joy. Young CB Martin Hinteregger, who was linked with us a year ago but flopped badly at Gladbach and was shipped to Augsburg after only 6 months, had a nightmare debut again, conceding a clumsy penalty. He is either incredibly overrated, or incredibly unlucky.
 
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Not sure where to put this bit of info but acc. to BILD Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wants to buy Gladbach loanee Andreas Christensen from Chelsea.

That'll be rather costly affair.

For us - as we are obv going all in to hi-jack this deal so he can lead our defense for the next ten years onward. The modern day Alan Hansen this lad.

Perhaps. Potentially.

Imagine that.
 
Not sure where to put this bit of info but acc. to BILD Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wants to buy Gladbach loanee Andreas Christensen from Chelsea.

That'll be rather costly affair.

For us - as we are obv going all in to hi-jack this deal so he can lead our defense for the next ten years onward. The modern day Alan Hansen this lad.

Perhaps. Potentially.

Imagine that.
I guess he will be playing alongside Simon Kjaer then.
;)
 
I guess he will be playing alongside Simon Kjaer then.
;)
Ha ha nope I don't see that one coming and I don't think that's a path we should follow either. Kjaer is good but he's by no means a world beater and from early indications I prefer Matip of the two of them and he's younger too, so that's a big no-go.

Simon Kjaer's biggest weakness is his passing game and we need good passers of the ball in the back as well. He also like to hit those Gerrard-like Hollywood passes he's just not anywhere as good as Stevie G was in that area, and then it's just frustrating to watch.
 
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