I watched the end of the Düsseldorf and Kiel game. Looked a good match. Marvin Ducksch looks a good player for Kiel, on loan from your neighbours St. Pauli Big game between Nürnberg and Düsseldorf next week to decide the title though! Shame Düsseldorf couldn’t have secured this today though.
Yes, Marvin Ducksch isn't bad. Concerning St.Pauli: I forgot to mention that the "red light district" club already secured his place in 2.Bundesliga with the 1-0 win against 4th placed Bielefeld. Congrats (seriously meant). They even jumped up to 10th with that win. Between 4th (Bielefeld) with 47 points and 16th(Braunschweig) with 39 points only 8 points gap. Very tense the 2.Bundesliga btw: Nürnberg isn't Germany's Record champion anymore but from now on they are our Record club for promotion to the 1.Bundesliga. It is their 8th promotion
HSV are relegated, the clock has stopped. Oh man. Did that one section of their fans really have to create a mess...
Hamburg deserved to go down tbh, they have been lucky for years and their luck ran out. Braunschweig relegated too, ex Mrs zippy is very upset.
Today's the first relegation playoff between Holstein Kiel (German Champion 1912) and VfL Wolfsburg (Bundesliga Champion 2009). Nearly everyone here keeps fingers crossed for Kiel edit: The DFL just granted Kiel permission, in case of a promotion, to play their home matches in their own (10.000 capacity) stadium although it momentarily doesn't meet the minimum requirements for a Bundesliga Stadium (which is 15.000 capacity with at least 8.000 seats). Last week they denied it. Timely and hopefully an extra boost for the Störche. btw: here's a list of all 16 Bundesliga founder members from 1963 and how long they could avoid a relegation to the 2nd tier (Jahr(e) means year(s) ) 1964 ... 1. FC Saarbrücken (1 Jahr) 1964 ... Preußen Münster (1 Jahr) 1965 ... Hertha BSC (2 Jahre) 1968 ... Karlsruher SC (5 Jahre) 1969 ... 1. FC Nürnberg (6 Jahre) 1970 ... TSV 1860 München (7 Jahre) 1972 ... Borussia Dortmund (9 Jahre) 1973 ... Eintracht Braunschweig (10 Jahre) 1975 ... VfB Stuttgart (12 Jahre) 1980 ... Werder Bremen (17 Jahre) 1981 ... FC Schalke 04 (18 Jahre) 1982 ... MSV Duisburg (19 Jahre) 1996 ... Eintracht Frankfurt (33 Jahre) 1996 ... 1. FC Kaiserslautern (33 Jahre) 1998 ... 1. FC Köln (35 Jahre) 2018 ... Hamburger SV (55 Jahre)
Kiel lost the 1st Relegation playoff leg with 1-3 at Wolfsburg Normally Kiel is more deadly (or is it "deadlier"? Idk) before the goal, they scored by far the most goals in BuLi 2 and unfortunately Eintracht Braunschweig could witness that at first hand in the last match when they were hammered 2-6 after leading 1-0 and 2-1 and had to go to 3.Liga. So, there's still a chance for them on Monday although tbh I think that the Volkswagen club will escape the relegation again. Today is the DFB Pokalfinale between Bayern and Eintracht Frankfurt. Normally a Bayern win. To reach the Europa League, Eintracht Frankfurt (8th) must win this. If Bayern wins then Stuttgart (7th in the Bundesliga) will go into the Europa League Qualifiers. Formerly Eintracht would be qualified for the EL even if Bayern wins the Cup because they are in the Champions League next season. But the DFB changed this some time ago.
I do find it odd how on the continent sometimes manager transfers are arranged months in advance, and managers then take on the clubs they are about to take over. Very rarely happens in England. Frankfurt doing well in this game tbf, blinding finish for their goal. wtf
Yes then Frankfurt. Deffo not deliberate handball either, was expecting a dodgy big club bias decision there.
Scenes First game of German football ive watched in ages and it was a belter, especailly with the VAR drama towards the end.
His arm was out from the body, imo a clear handball. I would have expected it to be given if it had been against us too.
It's a bit of a grey area, but the referee watched the footage and couldn't see any clear signs of intent to handle the ball, don't even think the player was looking at the ball it just kinda bounced up and hit his hand didn't it? I'll have to look again. Therefore he couldn't really overturn it. Have no idea what the ref was doing with the penalty decision though, absolutely shocking.
