DFB-Pokal - German Cup 2021/22

The Pokal starts this weekend - the first couple of games already were yesterday, with Dynamo Dresden beating 2nd BuLi "MEGA" competitors Paderborn.

Dynamo Dresden - SC Paderborn 2:1 (0:0)
1860 München - Darmstadt 98 5:4 i.E. (1:1, 0:0)

The FC Bayern was supposed to start things off too, yesterday night, against the fearsome 5th division Bremer SV, but due to a few Covid cases in the Bremen squad, the game got postponed to August 25th.

With Bayern not playing this weekend, the only other game of note will be that of the
SpVgg Bayreuth vs Arminia Bielefeld

- today at 15:30 (3.30pm CEST), which deserves some further elaboration:

The SpVgg (short for Spielvereinigung "Playing Union") is a lovable and historic football club from the placid, if not exactly picturesque, Upper Franconian town Bayreuth - a town of some 70000 inhabitants and of insignificant history, were it not for a certain dozen of years in the earlyish mid-20th century, in which it proudly served as a proclaimed Cultural and Spiritual Capital of the, albeit not yet quite conquered, world.
An administrative center of of Upper Franconia, whose main assets are sausage and beer production (assets that regrettably have curbed both the mental and physical agility of its native population) it is often regarded as the twin sister of idyllic nearby Bamberg - or rather, Bamberg's ugly, uncultured, protestant twin brother from a separate egg.

The SpVgg itself has its home in the part of Bayreuth called "old town" - 'Altstadt' - a name that has been transfered to the club itself - the SpVgg Bayreuth is the 'Altstadt'.  So if you don't want to say "Spielvereinigung", you can just say "dee Olldshdodd".
Paradoxically, the Altstadt is not so much a historic part of town as an underfunded and run down area of mostly low-income housing blocks.
Here's a couple of pictures of the SpVgg's native training ground at the Jakobshöhe (Jacob's height even if there's no height there) in the Altstadt part of Bayreuth:





Long since however, the club is playing its home games in the Municpal Stadium of Bayreuth, named "Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion" after a long-serving Social Democratic mayor of the town.



Located along the banks of the rivercreek Roter Main (Red Main), one of the two headstreams of the Main River, it also sits next to a local high school, students of which incidentally used to work through the track and fields parts of their physical education in the stadium and its secondary field.
As such, the Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadium, on top of witnessing the Altstadt's checkered performances and Michael Jackson performing as part of his "Dangerous" World Tour 1992, in the 1990s saw what surely must be considered some of the greatest and most impressive 2nd-4th place finishes ever achieved in middle and long distance running school and district competitions, displayed by the incomparably elegant, red-faced and fleet-footed local student H.(*)

Anway--- the Altstadt had its greatest sporting era in the late 70s, when it played 2nd Bundesliga and came within a hair's width to promotion into Bundesliga in 1979. The greatest triumph of Altstädter history, however, was beating the FC Bayern München in the DFB Pokal in 1980, with the SpVgg reaching the quarter finals of that season's competition.

After decades of mediocrity and then financial struggle (just in the last decade, the team was twice being denied the achieved promotion, into 3rd division, by league  administrators due to financial problems and suffered forced regulation into 6th division), the SpVgg is now back on its feet!
It's doing well in 4th division, it's playing good football, and it's back in the cup  for the first time in 15 years, facing a Bundesliga team at home right away.

5000 fans will be in the stadium, kick off is in little more than half an hour! LET'S GOOOOOOO


The other fixtures:

Samstag, 7. August 2021:
SC Weiche Flensburg 08 - Holstein Kiel (15.30)
Lok Leipzig - Bayer Leverkusen (15.30)
SV Sandhausen - RB Leipzig (15.30)
Greifswalder FC - FC Augsburg (15.30)
VfL Osnabrück - Werder Bremen (15.30)
Eintracht Norderstedt - Hannover 96 (15.30)
Wuppertaler SV - VfL Bochum (15.30)
BFC Dynamo - VfB Stuttgart (15.30)
SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball - 1. FC Nürnberg (18.30)
SV Babelsberg 03 - SpVgg Greuther Fürth (18.30)
1. FC Magdeburg - FC St. Pauli (18.30)
SV Wehen Wiesbaden - Borussia Dortmund (20.45)

Sonntag, 8. August 2021:
SV Meppen - Hertha BSC (15.30)
SV Elversberg - FSV Mainz 05 (15.30)
Carl Zeiss Jena - 1. FC Köln (15.30)
FC Villingen - Schalke 04 (15.30)
Waldhof Mannheim - Eintracht Frankfurt (15.30)
Rot-Weiß Koblenz - Jahn Regensburg (15.30)
Türkgücü München - Union Berlin (15.30)
VfL Oldenburg - Fortuna Düsseldorf (15.30)
Preußen Münster - VfL Wolfsburg (15.30)
Eintracht Braunschweig - Hamburger SV (18.30)
Würzburger Kickers - SC Freiburg (18.30)
Hansa Rostock - 1. FC Heidenheim (18.30)

Montag, 9. August 2021:
FC Ingolstadt - Erzgebirge Aue (18.30)
Viktoria Köln - TSG Hoffenheim (18.30)
Sportfreunde Lotte - Karlsruher SC (18.30)
1. FC Kaiserslautern - Borussia Mönchengladbach (20.45)


(*) name changed for reasons of anonymity

The lineups:

Bayreuth
Kolbe - Götz, T. Weber, St. Eder, Lippert - Kaymaz, Danhof, Nollenberger, Knezevic, Maderer - Ziereis

Reservebank:
Zahaczewski (Tor), Golla, Moos, F. Weber, Chrubasik, Makarenko, Stockinger, Weimar, Steininger

Trainer:
Rost

Arminia Bielefeld
Ortega Moreno - Brunner, Pieper, Nilsson, Laursen - Prietl, F. Kunze, Okugawa, Schöpf - Klos, Lasme

Reservebank:
Linner (Tor), de Medina, Ramos, van der Hoorn, Cherny, Gebauer, Hartel, Krüger, Serra

Trainer:
Kramer

Spoiler:

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Bielefeld fans drinking local beer (what else)


and posing in front of one of the town's sights, a parking garage


fans lining up to the stadium entrance


some native, meth-scarred hillbilly fans

Fuck

Arminia 1-0 up already

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1-1

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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3-3

own goal

Bielefeld gifting the Altstadt 2 goals to come back from 1-3 to 3-3

fuck

Hapless_Hans wrote:fuck

Not a fan of the young Haaland?

elfmeter wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:fuck

Not a fan of the young Haaland?

Based on the posting time, I will assume you were upset about Werder going out, dont be.

But yeah Haaland is a force of nature, be interesting to see how he and BVB do this year.

I was upset about Bielefeld scoring the 4-3

Bremer SV

Seemann - Warm, Olatunji, Nobile, Kmiec - Arnhold, Muszong, Kaiser, Diop, Kurkiewicz - Garcia

Reservebank:
Bahr (Tor), Duell, Kunkel, Orlick, Waki, Jindo, Matar, Wazneh, Özkul

Trainer:
Eta

Bayern

Ulreich - Sarr, Nianzou, Süle, O. Richards - Kimmich, Tolisso, L. Sané, T. Müller, Musiala - Choupo-Moting

Reservebank:
R. Hoffmann (Tor), Davies, C. Richards, Stanisic, Upamecano, Booth, Cuisance, Gnabry, M. Tillman

Trainer:
Nagelsmann

postponed 1st round cup game against a 5th division side

Nagelsmann left Neuer, Goretzka and Lewandowski at home

Pokal second round with a banger tonight, Bayern v Gladbach

Gladbach

Sommer - Beyer, Ginter, Elvedi - Scally, Zakaria, Koné, Bensebaini, Hofmann, Stindl - Embolo
Subs:
Sippel (Tor), Netz, Benes, Müsel, Neuhaus, H. Wolf, Herrmann, Plea, Thuram

Trainer:
Hütter


Bayern München
Neuer - Pavard, Upamecano, Hernandez, Davies - Kimmich, Goretzka, Gnabry, T. Müller, L. Sané - Lewandowski
Subs:
Früchtl (Tor), O. Richards, Sarr, Stanisic, Süle, Coman, Musiala, Sabitzer, Tolisso

Trainer:
Toppmöller

1-0 Gladbach, Koné after 1 minute

Gladbach blowing us apart, 2-0

So Bayern already losing on trophy if they dont score 3 now?

BarcaLearning wrote:So Bayern already losing on trophy if they dont score 3 now?

That is how it works, yes.

Upamecano with the worst CB performance in football history fuck me dead

5-0 lmao what the heck

Ouch

Hapless_Hans wrote:Upamecano with the worst CB performance in football history fuck me dead

Upamecano-Hernandez

Very surprised how much Upamecano is struggling at Bayern. Wonder if this is just a dip adjusting to new club, or sign of things to come where Leipzig plays more defensive n makes him look better than he is? Hernandez also a bad game.

But Monchen played great and Bayern seemed shell shocked for most of the game.

Commentator said Bayern knocked out this early last time was 20 yrs ago... well played Monchen A wake up call for Bayern as well. This stuff happens to them repeatily for some reason, reminds of the loss vs Real in CL.

BarcaLearning wrote:Very surprised how much Upamecano is struggling at Bayern. Wonder if this is just a dip adjusting to new club, or sign of things to come where Leipzig plays more defensive n makes him look better than he is? Hernandez also a bad game.

But Monchen played great and Bayern seemed shell shocked for most of the game.

Commentator said Bayern knocked out this early last time was 20 yrs ago... well played Monchen A wake up call for Bayern as well. This stuff happens to them repeatily for some reason, reminds of the loss vs Real in CL.

Bayern was knocked out this early (2nd round) last season.. maybe the commentator got confused because last season the game had been postponed until January

Upamecano had two absolute stinker games this season, Frankfurt and Gladbach (both of which we lost), apart form that he was pretty great.
But those two games were mindbogglingly bad.

But if you think that it is because Leipzig played such different football than Bayern, you're kind of missing an important thing...

Hernandez has been fantastic all season, didn't have a good game yesterday just as everyone else apart from Neuer

Somebody probably leaked doping check up for Bayern, and they were out of their usual drugs. Doesn't make sense otherwise. Hopefully Fifa is finally looking into this.

Hapless_Hans wrote:

BarcaLearning wrote:Very surprised how much Upamecano is struggling at Bayern. Wonder if this is just a dip adjusting to new club, or sign of things to come where Leipzig plays more defensive n makes him look better than he is? Hernandez also a bad game.

But Monchen played great and Bayern seemed shell shocked for most of the game.

Commentator said Bayern knocked out this early last time was 20 yrs ago... well played Monchen A wake up call for Bayern as well. This stuff happens to them repeatily for some reason, reminds of the loss vs Real in CL.

Bayern was knocked out this early (2nd round) last season.. maybe the commentator got confused because last season the game had been postponed until January

Upamecano had two absolute stinker games this season, Frankfurt and Gladbach (both of which we lost), apart form that he was pretty great.
But those two games were mindbogglingly bad.

But if you think that it is because Leipzig played such different football than Bayern, you're kind of missing an important thing...

Hernandez has been fantastic all season, didn't have a good game yesterday just as everyone else apart from Neuer

Thanks Hans. Well I dont follow Leipzig closely but they definitely look like playing defensively more in numbers in comparison to Bayern I mean? I know they also press n attack crazy but not always overall?

Interesting also am keeping an eye out on how Konate is doing at Liverpool the other formal Leipzig defender, who seemed to boss CR. If hes anything good, him n Van Dijk should form a top CB pairing as well.

BarcaLearning wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:

BarcaLearning wrote:Very surprised how much Upamecano is struggling at Bayern. Wonder if this is just a dip adjusting to new club, or sign of things to come where Leipzig plays more defensive n makes him look better than he is? Hernandez also a bad game.

But Monchen played great and Bayern seemed shell shocked for most of the game.

Commentator said Bayern knocked out this early last time was 20 yrs ago... well played Monchen A wake up call for Bayern as well. This stuff happens to them repeatily for some reason, reminds of the loss vs Real in CL.

Bayern was knocked out this early (2nd round) last season.. maybe the commentator got confused because last season the game had been postponed until January

Upamecano had two absolute stinker games this season, Frankfurt and Gladbach (both of which we lost), apart form that he was pretty great.
But those two games were mindbogglingly bad.

But if you think that it is because Leipzig played such different football than Bayern, you're kind of missing an important thing...

Hernandez has been fantastic all season, didn't have a good game yesterday just as everyone else apart from Neuer

Thanks Hans. Well I dont follow Leipzig closely but they definitely look like playing defensively more in numbers in comparison to Bayern I mean? I know they also press n attack crazy but not always overall?

Interesting also am keeping an eye out on how Konate is doing at Liverpool the other formal Leipzig defender, who seemed to boss CR. If hes anything good, him n Van Dijk should form a top CB pairing as well.

I meant because Leipzig was also managed by Nagelsmann for the last seasons so Upamecano wouldn't have had to play a different kind of football there

Myesyats wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:Upamecano with the worst CB performance in football history fuck me dead

Upamecano-Hernandez

best central defense in world football