Should I stay or Should I go?

He can already see BL 2 on the Horizon

The Sit­u­a­tion at the top and who will be Meis­ter and who will get the Inter­na­tional spots is one to watch for sure. At the other end of the table the sit­u­a­tion is just as close but there is lit­tle glory in any­thing other than the 15th Spot and up. So who will go down, who will par­tic­i­pate in the rel­e­ga­tion play­off and who will be safe? The cur­rent Num­bers and the games remain­ing are below, so judge for your­self. And that would add word num­ber 8 to DP’s list of words for Non-German Speak­ers: Absteiger!

12 Ein­tra­cht Frank­furt 25 6 7 11 29:38 –9
13 Han­nover 96 25 6 7 11 33:50 –17
14 Arminia Biele­feld 24 4 12 8 21:33 –12
15 VfL Bochum 22 4 10 10 28:40 –12
16 Borus­sia M’gladbach (N) 22 6 4 14 32:46 –14
17 Energie Cot­tbus 20 5 5 14 21:42 –21
18 Karl­sruher SC 17 5 2 17 18:41 –23

Remain­ing Games per Club:

Frank­furt:
Lev­erkusen (A), Cot­tbus (H), Bay­ern (A), M’gladbach (H), Stuttgart (A), Dort­mund (H), Han­nover (A), Bre­men (H), Bochum (A), Ham­burg (H)

Inter­est­ing mix of games for the Main Diva, key stretch will likely be in the mid­dle with Glad­bach, VfB, Han­nover and Bre­men at home. Of course Frank­furt has a habit of going down to the wire so stay tuned.

Han­nover:
Hof­fen­heim (A), Bre­men (A), Berlin (H), Ham­burg (A), Köln (H), Bochum (A), Frank­furt (H), Karl­sruhe (A), Wolfs­burg (H), Biele­feld (A)

The next four games are against tough teams, and then the sched­ule swings in their favor by play­ing against fel­low strug­glers with the excep­tion of Wolfs­burg. Should be enough to keep them clear with some room to spare.

Biele­feld:
Wolfs­burg (H), Schalke (H), Cot­tbus (A), Bay­ern (H), M’gladbach (A), Stuttgart (H), Lev­erkusen (A), Hof­fen­heim (H), Dort­mund (A), Han­nover (H)

The team from the Alm has only three Six Point games left, but also plays 5 teams in the Hunt for the Cham­pi­onship or Inter­na­tional Spots. Key to avoid­ing the play­off spot may be the last two games but they have to come up with points against Cot­tbus and Glad­bach before that.

Bochum:
M’gladbach (A), Stuttgart (H), Hof­fen­heim (A), Dort­mund (H), Bre­men (A), Han­nover (H), Berlin (A), Ham­burg (A), Frank­furt (H), Köln (A)

The team that always seems to find a way back after going down has some key matches left against their imme­di­ate neigh­bors in the stand­ings but also has to play some tough away games against the likes of Hof­fen­heim, Bre­men, Hertha and HSV.

Glad­bach:
Bochum (H), Karl­sruhe (A), Wolfs­burg (H), Frank­furt (A), Biele­feld (H), Bay­ern (A), Schalke (H), Cot­tbus (A), Lev­erkusen (A), Dort­mund (H)

Cur­rently on a bit of a roll and the only heavy­weights left on the sched­ule are WB and Bay­ern so they should be able to make it out of the drop zone. Play­ing five matches against the other teams at the bot­tom should also help.

Cot­tbus:
Köln (H), Frank­furt (A), Biele­feld (H), Schalke (A), Wolfs­burg (H), Karl­sruhe (A), Bay­ern (H), M’gladbach (H), Stuttgart (A), Lev­erkusen (H)

On paper the remain­ing games with the excep­tion of WB, FCB and Lev­erkusen are not that bad, how­ever the team from the Lausitz has only got­ten 10 points at Home this sea­son so that does not bode well for them.

Karl­sruhe:
Bay­ern (A), M’gladbach (H), Schalke (A), Hof­fen­heim (H), Lev­erkusen (A), Cot­tbus (H), Dort­mund (A), Han­nover (H), Bre­men (A), Berlin (H)

It ain’t over until it’s over, but I think I hear a rather healthy woman warm­ing up right now. With the prob­lems that the KSC has the last thing they want to do is play against some of the title con­tenders, but that is exactly what they have to do.

So who will it be? I think we can say good­bye to KSC and Cot­tbus for sure and the play­off team from the Bun­desliga will be Bielefeld.