Bundesliga Matchday 8 by the Numbers

0 — The num­ber in Frankfurt’s win col­umn (still, and I’ll keep on men­tion­ing this until Frank­furt take note and do some­thing about it)

5 — Dif­fer­ence in points between 1st (Ham­burg) and 11th (Bayern).

6 — Num­ber of goalscor­ers Ham­burg and Werder Bre­men have in the top 12 (ie, those who have scored at least 4 or more goals this season)

10 — The num­ber of yel­lows Bay­ern have as a team, the fewest in the league. This is the only good table that Bay­ern cur­rently top in the Bun­desliga. I can think of a few bad ones that they’d rank right near the top of, however.

11 — Goals Bay­ern have allowed at home so far this sea­son (3 more than the two next clos­est teams, Biele­feld and Glad­bach and 9(!) more than they’ve given up on the road)

19 — Goals that Bre­men have sur­ren­dered so far this sea­son. 7 of those came against teams cur­rently ranked beneath them (11th or lower) in the table.

27 — Games that Clau­dio Pizarro appeared in last sea­son for Chelsea, scor­ing two goals in the process. Pizarro scored twice in 3 min­utes against Dort­mund and raised his 10-game sea­son total to 7.

58 — Sec­onds it took for Timo Koni­et­zka of Dort­mund to score his first Bun­desliga goal in an even­tual 3:2 tri­umph over Bre­men on August 24th, 1963. It also hap­pened to be the league’s first goal.

59 — Min­utes it took for Dortmund’s Alexan­der Frei to score the first of six goals over the next half hour plus in the 2008 encounter between these two teams that ended in a 3-all draw.

99.75 and 104.5 — Goals that Hof­fen­heim and Bre­men, respec­tively, will end the sea­son with if they con­tinue at their cur­rent pace. The only team to have actu­ally scored more than 100 goals in a sea­son was Bay­ern dur­ing the 1971/72 campaign.

Tagged as: Alexander Frei, Bielefeld, Bremen, Claudio Pizarro, FC Bayern München, Frankfurt, Gladbach, Hamburger SV, Timo Konietzka, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim