Re: The Bundesliga Thread

by urbaNRoots Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:53 pm

Stuttgart always offers a good game but today they were just pathetic. They were diving, time-wasting, whining to the referees all the time... I was disgusted tbh. Winning the game felt like a trophy tbh.

Bayern on the other hand.... what the hell? Shocked

by VivaStPauli Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:05 pm

BTW I was uber scared for Schweinsteiger's ankle there, I thought Juve had the tie in the bag when I saw the replay of how Piggy landed. With him at least they have a fighting chance, if they avoid conceding corners and FKs.

by rwo power Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:55 pm

BAYERN_MUNICH wrote:After 7-0 , do you think the concentration was on the highest level ? ... I just say Germany-Sweden 4-0 and you know what happened

Yeah, I already feared for a 7:7

by Forza Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:21 am

1st place v 9th place and... 9-2.

By comparison...
The biggest win in the EPL is Chelsea's 8-0 win over relegation candidates Aston Villa.
The biggest win in La Liga is Atletico's 6-0 win over relegation candidates Deportivo La Coruna.
The biggest win in Serie A is Samp's 6-0 win over relegation candidates Pescara.
The biggest win in Ligue 1 is Valenciennes's 6-1 win over Lorient. (2 mid table teams)

This is why the Bundesliga gets so much criticism. The gulf in class between Bayern and the rest of the teams has been enormous this year. Bayern weren't even playing their 1st team!

There's now a 20 point gap between 1st and 2nd in the Bundesliga. 20 points!
In the EPL, having 20pts less than 1st will put you in 3rd.
In La Liga, 20 pts will get you an easy 4th.
In Serie A, 20 pts will get you all the way back to 6th.
And in Ligue 1, 20 pts behind PSG is 11th placed Toulouse.

Thoughts?

by juventus101 Sun Mar 31, 2013 12:04 pm

Bundesliga is usually the most competitive league in my opinion. This year its not obviously, but other than first place its still very competitive. Also, Barxelona has pretty mich won the league already as well, by how many points doesnt really matter. And Bayern did play their whole first team outside of Mandzukic, Lahm, and Alaba.

by rwo power Sun Mar 31, 2013 1:18 pm

@ForzaRossoneri

It's not that a 9:2 happens ever so often in the Bundesliga... And moreover, this season the HSV already defeated Dortmund in the Signal-Iduna Park with 4:1 - yesterday's monumental defeat is actually rather inexplicable to everybody.

And talking of steamrollings - what do you make of ManUtd's 8:2 win against Arsenal last season?

Sometime a team simply plays completely unchained and their opponents just don't find a solution.

As for competitiveness - you should rather see how many teams actually won the leagues within the last 10 or so years - there you will habe the BL with a pretty good number - just as well how many teams could reach the slots 1-4 - there were always far more teams involved than in the other leagues.

by ELO Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:12 pm

Forza Rossoneri wrote:

Thoughts?

Hamburg just beat CL Quarterfinalist BVB 4-1 in Dortmund not too long ago, a few weeks later they lost to a weaker side in Hannover 1-5...

This was more a matter of Hamburg having psychological issues and sh**ting their pants than the actual quality of their squad.

Also Manu-Arsenal 8:2 anyone?

Edit: too late, RWO too fast for me Smile

by la bestia negra Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:15 pm

im pretty sure the score wouldnt even hit the 5 mark if it was another day

by Toffer Harley Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:26 pm

no body does it better (or worse rather) than us. even fürth would have destroyed us like playing like we did

by rwo power Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:06 pm

Philipp Tschauner does a Lehmann! :bow:

Legend!!

MotM!!

Tschauner congratulated by his team mates after scoring a headed equalizer in the final minute of the St.Pauli - Paderborn match to make it 2:2.

by urbaNRoots Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:56 am

Kicker are saying that Sascha Lewandowski will return to coaching Leverkusen youth teams at the end of this season. Hyypia to step up?

by rwo power Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:15 am

Sami Hyypiä will start to complete his coaching license this summer and as soon as he enrolls into the course for it, he is allowed to coach Bayer Leverkusen on his own. As the Bayer bosses obviously want to continue with Hyypiä at the helm, he will get the nod as proper coach then.

by VivaStPauli Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:22 am

rwo power wrote:Philipp Tschauner does a Lehmann! Legend!! MotM!!

Tschauner congratulated by his team mates after scoring a headed equalizer in the final minute of the St.Pauli - Paderborn match to make it 2:2.

We are awesome, even if we're being underwhelming at the time Razz

by urbaNRoots Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:13 pm

Sebastian Jung extends his contract with Eintracht according to Sky.

by BarcaLearning Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:34 pm

Congrats to Bayern....just watched the second half vs Frankfurt, they were extrememly lucky to win it though, and Frankfurt looking like they were about to score, Neuer great save...and referee dfefinitely were biased towards Bayern with the penalty call and numerous decisions Very Happy

Poor Frankfurt, but its all about Bayern winning the title back!

So happy for Heynches, and seeing him getting thrown in the air at age 68 was funny...Ribery dancing, and than some g4y celebrations Very Happy

by rwo power Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:03 pm

@BarcaLearning

In the 1st half the ref denied Bayern a pen, too. But a bit lucky it was nonetheless.

by VivaStPauli Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:10 pm

Bloody wastefulness of our bloody forwards, that was at least a point for us, if not three, wasted. -.-

by rwo power Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:13 pm

Indeed. That Takashi Inui shot in the end was a beauty. 10cm further and Neuer would never have reached that.

BTW, I'm always a bit puzzled that it often looks as if hitting the post or bar is easier than hitting the goal with it's 7.39m x 2.42m size...

by VivaStPauli Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:17 pm

I'm way more angry at the St. Pauli loss against Dresden though -.-

by BarcaLearning Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:49 pm

rwo power wrote:Indeed. That Takashi Inui shot in the end was a beauty. 10cm further and Neuer would never have reached that.

BTW, I'm always a bit puzzled that it often looks as if hitting the post or bar is easier than hitting the goal with it's 7.39m x 2.42m size...

I agree, its quite amazing to see so many shots hitting the post/bar when the ratio or the size of it is so much smaller than the whole goal space scratch

by RealGunner Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:09 am

Martin Angha is set to sign for Nürnberg on 4 yr deal. (Arsenal youth player)

Great to see he found a club who will make him part of the 1st team

by ProXima Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:22 am

Finally we could see a nice Gladbach game, although inefficiency was shocking... de Jong came too late.

Today draw Schalke with Eintracht and I'll be happy.

by rwo power Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:13 am

Well, I hope that BMG make it to Europe again. I think they need some more practise there and it would be good for Marc-André ter Stegen, too.

by VivaStPauli Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:13 pm

Barca must be amped that all they are up against is Pizarro and Gomez, because Mandzukic is soooooo much scarier. Razz

by rwo power Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:17 pm

Godmez is more efficient than Messi atm. He's at 1.74 vs Messi at 1.73 when using Jiopsi's formula. :bow:

by VivaStPauli Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:19 pm

Shots taken v goals scored?

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