Official Bayer Leverkusen thread 07/08 [R]

[European16]

Friedrich, du hurenbock
ahaha
what a bummer
good game

[bltleo]

wow...we are still 3rd in the BL...after Hamburg did not win against Bayern.



http://www.bayer04.de/b04e/en/_site_index.aspx

here report of the game
http://www.bayer04.de/b04e/en/_site_index.aspx

I hope we will get our Champions league place....

Go Bayer!

[footyfan1]

You guys are the best "medicore" team I know! LOL!! :D

No, seriously, congratulations and keep up the good play until you come to Dortmund! LOL!! ;)

[footyfan1]

According to the article linked below (in German), you guys are going to to play a lot of your home matches next season in Duesseldorf's LTU Arena while the expansion of the BayArena is completed.

The article says it will be the last home match of the first half of the season and all of the home matches in the second half of the season. The BayArena expansion is expected to be completed in time for the 2009/2010 season.

The article also says the cost of the expansion has gone up from an estimated 57 million Euros to around 70 million Euros because of the rising costs of building materials and personnel.

Focus.de: Bayer zieht für sechs Monate nach Düsseldorf um (http://www.focus.de/sport/fussball/bayer-zieht-fuer-sechs-monate-nach-duesseldorf-um_spid_628586.html)

[bltleo]

yes this is true....Leverkusen is bringing a bit Bundesliga feeling to Düsseldorf...so we will be playing the last season games in Düsseldorf.....will be a lot of fun:)....Leverkusen did not want to play in Cologne stadium, cause they are our big rivals.....

nevertheless...morgen is our big day....Leverkusen UEFA CUp AGAINST HSV...I will be in the stadium...hope we will win...despite Hamburg is also very good....they had more good luck this weekend..we will see...:)

[bltleo]

"Stefan Kießling (24) has penned a two year extension to his current contract which was due to end on 30 June 2010. The striker, signed from 1. FC Nürnberg in 2006, has now committed himself to Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 30 June 2012 ."

http://www.bayer04.de/b04e/en/_site_index.aspx

[footyfan1]

"Stefan Kießling (24) has penned a two year extension to his current contract which was due to end on 30 June 2010. The striker, signed from 1. FC Nürnberg in 2006, has now committed himself to Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 30 June 2012 ."

http://www.bayer04.de/b04e/en/_site_index.aspx


Two more years to learn to be cool in front of the net.

If this kid can learn that, he'll lead the Bundesliga in scoring one day.......

[footyfan1]

yes this is true....Leverkusen is bringing a bit Bundesliga feeling to Düsseldorf...so we will be playing the last season games in Düsseldorf.....will be a lot of fun:)....Leverkusen did not want to play in Cologne stadium, cause they are our big rivals.....

Understandable. If something happened to the Westfalenstadion, we would not play our matches at Schalke, even though theirs is the second biggest stadium in the area and very close. We would probably play at Duesseldorf too.

I think Schalke and Gladbach would do the same.

The LTU Arena is a great stadium currently being wasted on Regionalliga football.



nevertheless...morgen is our big day....Leverkusen UEFA CUp AGAINST HSV...I will be in the stadium...hope we will win...despite Hamburg is also very good....they had more good luck this weekend..we will see...:)


Will watch on TV. I can't say that I prefer you guys or HSV. I just hope the best team wins and no one gets hurt.

[Klask]

First half was a very tactical affair with both teams playing it rather safe and boring which almost made me sleep. 2nd half was much better with goals chances in both ends and more open play.

I was hoping you guys would beat (H)eute (S)chon (V)erloren and you did! Very important that you kept clean sheet at home, now go to Hamburg and score on set pieces and let the home team work their ass off trying to score 3 goals :p

Congrats on the win, and I expect you to advance further!

[Borussia]

I can't believe that the "small" striker Gekas managed to score a header goal against the tall HSV defence! :eek: How could that happen???

Congrats on the win! The clean sheet could become very important in the end...

[footyfan1]

I can't believe that the "small" striker Gekas managed to score a header goal against the tall HSV defence! :eek: How could that happen???

Effort maybe?


Congrats on the win! The clean sheet could become very important in the end...

Yep. But not if HSV turns around and does the same thing in Hamburg......

Just hope that Skibbe isn't silly enough to go to Hamburg and try to defend a one-goal lead.

[bltleo]

I can't believe that the "small" striker Gekas managed to score a header goal against the tall HSV defence! :eek: How could that happen???

Congrats on the win! The clean sheet could become very important in the end...

thanks for the congratulation...i came later home yesterday....about midnight...i´m happy we won...despite i think we had more chance...we have deserved to win 2:0:)...i did not like Hamburg style...they played boring game for me....

so happy we won!!! and i hope we advance!!!!!!

BTW...I was in the stadium....did you see me on T.V?:)

[bltleo]

Effort maybe?




Yep. But not if HSV turns around and does the same thing in Hamburg......

Just hope that Skibbe isn't silly enough to go to Hamburg and try to defend a one-goal lead.

i throw you from this thread if you prefer Hamburg to Leverkusen:)....just kidding..

i hope we will do our best in Hamburg....

i also wished we played against another team than Hamburg...not-german team better...but this is life....and I hope Leverkusen will win it

["Eisenfuß" Eilts]

Puh, exiting match ...

... congrats to Leverkusen for kicking our rival out of the cup. :)

[Dead Fingers]

Congrats to Leverkusen!

[blazsovszkyc]

Congrats to Leverkusen for advancing in the quorterfinals !!

[Klask]

You seriously need to work on the defensive end if you want to to advance further. The defense gave up way too many opportunities and way too easy. Adler was great as usual, nothing but praise for him.

It was great to see Barbarez score in his home city and he was very emotional about it. The positive thing was Bayer effectiveness in front of goal. HSV could learn a thing or two from that.

I wonder if the match would have ended 3-2 if Guerrero was given the red card in the 1st half as he should clearly have had. Nevertheless a really high quality entertaining match and congrats on the advancement. I can't say I'm surprised.

[panicfc]

Kudos to Bayer. Glad to see my former employers doing well.

[Borussia]

Glückwunsch zum Weiterkommen! Not conceding a goal at home is always an important step to go through...

However, Skibbe's guys were on the edge of failing after Van der Vaart's 3:2. And Adler was very solid once again.

http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/uefa/spielrunde/spielpaarungsbericht/object/842049

[bltleo]

Carsten Ramelow finish his career with Bayer with immediate effect:

from Kicker:
"Hamburg - Carsten Ramelow von Bayer Leverkusen beendet mit sofortiger Wirkung seiner Karriere. Wie der "Kicker" berichtet, hatte der 33-jährige Bayer-Kapitän Trainer Michael Skibbe bereits am vergangenen Freitag um seine Freistellung gebeten. "Ich habe das Gefühl, dass ich hier keine Einsatzchance mehr habe. Als 17. oder 18. Mann dabei zu sein, das bringt mit nichts. Da soll der Trainer lieber einen jungen Spieler mitnehmen", sagte der defensive Mittelfeldspieler. Ramelow spielte seit 1996 für Leverkusen und erzielte in 333 Bundesligaspielen 22 Tore. Im Sommer soll der ehemalige Nationalspieler eine noch nicht näher bestimmte Anschlusstätigkeit im Verein antreten. "