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Week Five by the Numbers

September 21st, 2008 · Comments · Statistics

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 mean length of a […]

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The Set: Seven Reasons the Bundesliga Is Better Than the EPL

September 9th, 2008 · Comments · General

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, BVB, […]

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Tactical Analysis: BVB

August 26th, 2008 · Comments · Borussia Dortmund, Tactical Analysis

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 […]

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The New Gaffer: Introducing Klopp at Borussia Dortmund

July 17th, 2008 · Comments · Borussia Dortmund, Gaffers

Continuing our series introducing the Bundesliga’s newest gaffers is Jürgen Klopp now with Borussia Dortmund. For those of you at home wondering why Klopp was chosen to follow Klinsmann wonder no more. Was it to juxtapose the long-serving Klopp with the journeyman Klinsmann? Was it because both were football commentators for the German public television […]

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