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 […]
Patrick Helmes
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 […]
A hat trick by Patrick Helmes and an unrelenting offense saw Bayer Leverkusen take apart Hannover 96 tonight. The illness and injury riddles Reds, were humiliated by Bayer 04, but also their lack of fight as they seemed disinterested in the proceedings. Bayer have the most fluid attack in the Bundesliga with Rofles and Augusto […]
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 […]
A look at Bayer Leverkusen’s Bruno Labbadia concludes our The New Gaffer: Introducing… series this week. So far we’ve examined, in order: the journeyman, the company man, the stranger and, er, Martin Jol. Labbadia is a mix between a poor man’s Jürgen Klinsmann and a poor man’s Christian Bale (take a look!). In other words, […]
