Well, maybe Scheiss Bayern won't take Nübel back, with the errors he makes. If he can clean those up, he'll be excellent.
FINALLY! We break through at last. Excellent header by Bilal El Khannouss off a great cross from Jamie Leweling. Beautiful goal. Werder Bremen 0:1 VfB.
Coulibaly with second yellow. That first one in the early minutes, throwing the ball onto the pitch =
One dumb yellow and then a second dumb foul which maybe he could have gotten away with. But with your name already in the book, you don't take a chance like that. Thanks, kid.
That combination is so deadly. They get rolling like that and look out. It's so quick, so accurate, just really tough to defend. Nagelsmann definitely has something to think about going forward.
Führich with a little stat padder at the death. Werder Bremen 0:4 VfB Stuttgart in full time. Nice, neat, well-executed win. Werder Bremen came out brightly and spritely, but we wrestled it away from them and never looked back. Man, that feels good to say.
Yes, he is. And with the World Cup coming up, he has some decisions to make. Deniz and Jamie are both making really good cases to join the attack.
Nartey starts in the position usually filled by El Khannouss, who must be at the African Cup of Nations now.
Yeah, he got on a plane right after the last match. I guess is knee is okay. The tournament starts tomorrow, so we'll find out then whether he has any lingering issue. I hope not. He's really starting to emerge. AFCON is a great tournament, by the way. They're streaming on beIN. I'm going to check my Roku later and see if I get it.
Come on Angelo, don't be stupid. Talking yourself into a yellow is the dumbest thing you can do on the pitch.
It's been a pitched battle in the midfield, but Leweling has been running hot and nearly scored. He also created a great opportunity near the end of the half — Nartey's header to Tomás would have put us up 1:0 but for a fantastic save by Baumann. Brutal out there, though. Hoffenheim does not want to give up fourth place to us.
Finn Jeltsch got bulldozed and picked up a knock. Al-Dakhil subbed on for him. Stiller is on a yellow and now Karazor is on one, too. Expect them to get picked on now.
Frustrating. VfB Stuttgart 0:0 TSG Hoffenheim in full time. Credit to Hoffenheim, they came in determined to not sacrifice their place on the table and they achieved it. Undav just inches from scoring the winner at the death.
I thought we were the better side and we definitely created the better chances (the only chances, really). But they just weren't going to yield.
I can get AFCON matches via the IPTV but normally I am not a fan of international play. When I do follow African footie, I usually follow Mozambique. There are some good players from Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt in addition to the usual suspects (Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria), but most of them were raised in Europe and are part of that continent's development programs.