Bundesliga and the rest: Domestic and European competition discussion

Schalke have only themselves to blame. Years of mismanagement and terrible recruitment. Can see them ending up like Kaiserslautern at this rate.

 

hard pill to swallow Kaiserslautern gave us kickstart pro career of Ballack and Klose and tons of class players. Now you look at them and close to Relegation to RL from 3rd Liga....

what Schalke does have is an Academy with tons of promising players from U17-II. Them in debt will just make it easier on all their promising players to breakthrough.

 

Yes but with debts like that will they get their licence?

 

On a different subject looking at the BL clubs in the CL this week.

Yesterday Dortmund won easily again v Brugge, Haaland x2 becoming a record breaker (fastest player to reach 15+ goals in CL) while Leipzig lost narrowly in Paris to an iffy penalty.

Dortmund can seal both qualification and top spot with a game to spare if they can beat Lazio at home next week. They need to start showing they can beat the stronger teams so this would be a good start.

Leipzig were a bit unlucky to lose but are now behind PSG on head to head thanks to the away goal rule. It's a pretty tight group, vital for Leipzig to win in Turkey next week to give them a better chance.

Tonight both Bayern and Gladbach have winnable opponents who they hit 6 against in the last round of games. Bayern can seal qualification with a win, whereas Gladbach can make sure of EL minimum if they can win, as well as giving themselves a good chance to qualify.

 

As long as Tah is fit they should be fine.

 

Elvedi and Embolo add to Gladbach's lead, 3-0 ht. Looking good.

 

Embolo is on fire first half. The Stindl penalty came from foul over him, he shot against the post and his goal came from overhead kick

 

Oscar Wendt made it 4-0 from direct free kick. Wow, 10 goals from 2 match against Shakhtar Amazing performance from BMG

 

WHAT A SAVE FROM YANN SOMMER FROM POINT BLANK HEADER!

 

Double digit goals from home and away match with clean sheet on top of it. Can't ask better result from BMG. Sommer really important to keep the clean sheet on last 5 minutes. BMG very clinical, 4 goals all from set piece.

Now hoping Inter and Real to draw and BMG only need to at least draw Inter on the next match to qualify.

 

Boateng, Alaba and Marc Roca all over the place Neuer just made a great save from one on one by Berisha.

 

Szoboszlai one on one with Neuer and send it to the moon

 

Bayern defence all over the place. Put Javi in over Roca.

Chris Richards quite good defensively, he showed better composure over Pavard so far

 

Vidal got red card after complaining to ref after initial yellow Can't believe this guy is so stupid considering his age. i really want Inter won or at least draw against Real to smooth BMG to next round. Now it seems impossible

 

Lewa made it 1-0. Salzburg much more dangerous but wasted too many chance. With Lewa, it is the opposite

 

Pavard overated anyways.

but goes to show that 1st team chances at Bayern 100% linked with Flick favs. Zirkzee and Richards are decent at best in II and get 1st team chances. Mbi hasn't done anything and makes squads too. All players Flick likes, Musiala never dominated in 3rd Liga and all goals he scored were in same game is now permanent 1st team player too

can't impress in 1st team if never given the chance. All German attackers Flick demands they score as much as possible in II while ones who don't play for Germany it doesn't matter if they score in II or not they just play II for match practice....

Salzburg should be up 2-1, lol.