3 — Likely number of German top goalscorers over the past 10 years by season’s end. With Ibisevic’s injury cementing his tally at 18, it seems likely that Patrick Helmes (17), Mario Gomez or Grafite (14 each) will end up with title of Torschützenkönig. BUT if Grafite were to win, it’d increase the number of […]
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I wanted to point out this great collection of pictures available at Auswärtssieg! (away win!) a German Schalke blog. Unfortunately for Auswärtssieg! Schalke went down 2–1 to Leverkusen, but that shouldn’t prevent us from enjoying these great pictures. Here are a few to whet your appetite: You can look at the rest of them here.
0 — Number of wins by Frankfurt, the last remaining winless team 5 — Total number of shots by Gladbach in their 0–1 defeat to Hamburg 7 — Goals scored by Patrick Helmes this season, that’s equal to or more than 8 teams (Hertha, Köln, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Cottbus, Frankfurt, and Gladbach) 8.06 — The […]
1 — Number of weeks Hamburg spent at the top of the table 2 — Number of 0–0 draws after five weeks 5 — Clean sheets, tied (alongside week 4) for the most in one week 8 — Minutes it took sub Jonas Kamper to score in Bielefeld’s 2–0 win over Köln 11 — The […]
Football is not always a beautiful game; sometimes bookings are necessary. Thankfully, we’re on hand to keep all these bookings straight. There are 34 distinct offences that the DFB considers bookable. In their honor I’ve written this paean to the punished: We are here not to castigate but to celebrate these masters of misconduct, ballerinas […]
While this is expected to become a weekly column, I have decided to hand out the first Weekly XI based on the cumulative efforts of the first three weeks. I will use a 3–4–3 formation for my picks. Schober (S04) Westermann (S04) Subotic (BVB) Friedrich (HBS) Kuba (BVB) Marin (MON) Schweinsteiger (FCB) Dejegah (WLF) Wichniarek (AB) Helmes (BL) Ibisevic (TSG) GK: Mathias […]
1. Parity Okay, let’s not kid ourselves. Not any team can win the Bundesliga. But since the inception of the EPL in 1991, four teams have won the title: United, Blackburn, Chelsea and Arsenal, but United has won 11 of those titles. In that same span, five teams have won the title in Germany: Kaiserslautern, […]
