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[rwo power]

Bundesliga 2015/16

The first matchday of 2015/16 will start on Friday, the 14 August 2015 at 20:30 GMT+2 with the top match Bayern München vs Hamburger SV.

Full fixture list for 2015/16: http://bundesliga.cdncwp.de/assets/pdfs/de-1.pdf


Links to the Club Sections / Threads:

Bundesliga:
FC Bayern München - http://www.goallegacy.net/f17-fc-bayern-munich
Borussia Mönchengladbach - http://www.goallegacy.net/t16981-borussia-monchengladbach
Borussia Dortmund - http://www.goallegacy.net/t17083-borussia-dortmund
FC Schalke 04 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t17011-fc-schalke-04
Bayer Leverkusen - http://www.goallegacy.net/t17061-bayer-04-leverkusen
Hannover 96 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t17153-hannover-96

Lower Division Clubs:
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen - http://www.goallegacy.net/t23960-rot-weiss-oberhausen
FC St.Pauli - http://www.goallegacy.net/t17169-fc-st-pauli
TSV 1860 München - http://www.goallegacy.net/t22701-tsv-1860-munchen


Football terms German-English (for the hipsters):
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2013/0000226598.php


The Old Bundesliga Threads:

Nr.1 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t25-the-bundesliga-thread
Nr.2 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t24201-the-bundesliga-thread
Nr.3 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t28823-the-bundesliga-thread
Nr.4 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t34572-the-bundesliga-thread
Nr.5 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t36200-the-bundesliga-thread
Nr.6 - http://www.goallegacy.net/t37177-the-bundesliga-thread

[rwo power]

I'm looking forward to the Borussen Derby which is right on the first matchday on Saturday 15 August 2015, 15:30 GMT+2.

Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia Mönchengladbach

At Day 1 after Jürgen Klopp, I'm curious how Thomas Tuchel will set up the Dortmund team. And hopefully, Gladbach will manage to have a good start nonetheless!

[Hapless_Hans]

'top match' lmao

[rwo power]

Hey, it will be broadcast to over 200 countries, won't it?

And the HSV kicked out most of the losers of the last season, so it will be interesting to see what the fresh squad will manage to do.

[VivaStPauli]

I'm very curious as to how Darmstadt will do. My money is on straight relegation back to the 2nd flight, but what the hell, there's other bad teams out there.

Tuchels Dortmund will probably line up a lot like Klopps did, but I really hope they managed to reinvigorate themselves. They looked so spent through the entirety of last season.

[Kick]

Can some of the Bundesliga lads give me some info about Rudiger? We've been linked to him recently and his agent confirmed our interest.

[RealGunner]

Sorry, switched off my ps4 before seeing that post

I'll let you know tomorrow how he is.

[Kick]

Sorry, switched off my ps4 before seeing that post

I'll let you know tomorrow how he is.

[zenmaster]

Sorry, switched off my ps4 before seeing that post

I'll let you know tomorrow how he is.

[M99]

RG ffs

[rwo power]

@KIck
I'll tell you when we have humanly bearable temperatures again, sorry. Need to return to my fridge now.

[Kick]

[M99]

Sorry, switched off my ps4 before seeing that post

I'll let you know tomorrow how he is.

We are waiting.

[rwo power]

@Kick

ATM it looks as if VfL Wolfsburg are close to sign Antonio Rüdiger. Rüdiger is a quite okay CB; personally I don't think he is so outstanding, but Jogi Löw seems to be a fan (probably because he's a Stuttgart player) and thus he got 6 caps by now.

[Kick]

Thats what I thought. Haven't heard great things from him.

[rwo power]

Yah. There are quite some better CBs in the Bundesliga, but then, Jogi Löw favours certain clubs and thus selects theikr players with more likelihood than those of others ^^

[Kick]

Indeed.

[VivaStPauli]

Despite that, I actually think Rüdiger has great potential. With CBs it's always hard to tell early, they might just be on a hot run of form, or falter immediately after changing clubs... I somehow still think Ginter is brilliant even though he sucked donkey balls for Dortmund so far.

Personally, I'm more interested in Knoche, Süle, and Tah (and Ginter) than Rüdiger. All in all our next crop of defenders seems to fall more on the side of "decent" than "great", but I expect great things from Goretzka, Can, Arnold, Brandt, and possibly Meyer, none of whom are defenders, though Goretzka does play a mean DM.

But don't take my word for it, I still hope on some level that Leitner will be the next big thing, and often catch myself explaining to people that Holty might be awesome if he didn't make one shit transfer after the other.

[Kick]

Despite that, I actually think Rüdiger has great potential. With CBs it's always hard to tell early, they might just be on a hot run of form, or falter immediately after changing clubs... I somehow still think Ginter is brilliant even though he sucked donkey balls for Dortmund so far.

Personally, I'm more interested in Knoche, Süle, and Tah (and Ginter) than Rüdiger. All in all our next crop of defenders seems to fall more on the side of "decent" than "great", but I expect great things from Goretzka, Can, Arnold, Brandt, and possibly Meyer, none of whom are defenders, though Goretzka does play a mean DM.

But don't take my word for it, I still hope on some level that Leitner will be the next big thing, and often catch myself explaining to people that Holty might be awesome if he didn't make one shit transfer after the other.

I completely agree.

If I were after a decent back up German, Sule would be my choice over Rudiger.

[Hapless_Hans]

Telekom Cup on right now. Livestream on ran.de, no idea whether watchable from abroad.
http://www.ran.de/fussball/live/telekom-cup-2015-im-kostenlosen-livestream

Games are only 45 minutes, if it's a draw straight to penalties.

Gladbach - HSV started 15h (0-0 still)
Bayern - Augsburg next at around 16.15h

losers for 3rd place game: 17:30h
'final': 18:45h

[Hapless_Hans]

HSV win on penalties.

Bayern 1:0 Thiago (Costa), with Müller 100% involved.

...............Ulreich............
...Rafinha..Alaba..Steinhart
.........Lahm...Alonso.........
.......Rode..........Thiago...
Kurt.......................Costa..
.............Müller..................

[Hapless_Hans]

Bayern-Augsburg 1:2

getting outcountered and conceding on corners

[Hapless_Hans]

The Bayern Second Team and U18 All Stars 0:0 Gladbach at the moment

[rwo power]

Oh, you mentioned the Telekom-Cup here. ^^

I just put a summary into RG's pre-season thread. But I can copy this here, too, just for completeness' sake

[rwo power]

Telekom-Cup 2015

Sunday 12 July 2015 was the 7th Telekom-Cup which was held in Mönchengladbach for the second time. Participants of the invitational tournament this time:

- Borussia Mönchengladbach (hosts)
- Bayern München (holders)
- HSV
- FC Augsburg

The matches are 45 minutes long and decided with a penalty shoot-out if they end in a draw. As many international players only returned from their holidays two days ago, the teams line-up with a lot of youngsters (except for HSV who played pretty much their normal starters).

Semi finals:
Gladbach vs Hamburg (0:0), 4:5 PSO
Bayern vs Augsburg 1:2

Third place:
Gladbach vs Bayern (0:0) 4:3 PSO

Final:
HSV vs Augsburg 2:1

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