Mats Hummels

I missed the first round of games on fam­ily vaca­tion. While I still have the Gladbach-Bochum game on DVR to watch for fun, my first game of the sea­son, albeit delayed, was Dortmund’s 1–0 vic­tory at home over Köln. It was a thor­oughly deserved vic­tory where Dort­mund put the Billy Goats to the sword and […]

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Bild is report­ing that Mats Hum­mels has sus­tained another in a long line of ankle injuries. Hav­ing just returned to train­ing fol­low­ing the heal­ing of tears in the inner and outer bands on his ankle, he left train­ing due to the ankle again today. This is the 3rd injury to the right ankle in a […]

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We can only hope that young play­ers begin to take notice of Bay­ern Munich’s youth pol­icy, which is to strip other clubs of their promis­ing youth, destroy their con­fi­dence and send them out on loan as dis­ap­point­ments. With Podol­ski, Hum­mels and Kroos all find­ing new homes in Jan­u­ary, it’s obvi­ous that Bay­ern have become the […]

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I have just returned from my sum­mer hol­i­days, where I had a lovely respite from footie. How­ever, here we are with the sea­son two weeks deep and I am behind. But I am afforded the lux­ury of mak­ing my tac­ti­cal analy­sis on two games rather than one, which can be use­ful. I decided to spend […]

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1st Schalke What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the off­spring. What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end. What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the […]

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