Where is family peace at stake?
Sebastian Hoeneß is returning to his hometown of Munich, where he will meet TSG Hoffenheim on Saturday, the club whose second team he led to the championship title in the previous season; to the club for which his father Dieter held out the skull and – according to unconfirmed rumors – his uncle Uli founded in the distant past. (Or something like that.)
A beautiful, soulful story – if it hadn’t been for the first leg in which Hoeneß jr. inflicted the first and only defeat to FC Bayern in 2020. Uli H. contacted his nephew after the game to congratulate him.
It was a short phone call. “He wasn’t really happy,” Sebastian H. has now reported. You don’t want to know what the next level of escalation would look like with Uli Hoeneß in the event of another defeat.
What are the pursuers doing?
Which persecutors? Games like the one in Sinsheim only briefly nurtured the illusion that the title fight in the Bundesliga would experience something like tension again for the first time since the early Middle Ages. In the last game before Christmas, Bayern played at Bayer Leverkusen, which was runner-up at the time.
With a 1-0 win in the meantime, the unbeaten Leverkusen team were even virtual leaders. Since then, however, they have lost four out of six games and won only one – including the duel against Bayern. Against BVB. A mandatory victory, so to speak.
Who can relax?
Speaking of BVB. The Dortmunders, who are now no longer following Bayern, but Wolfsburg, Gladbach and Frankfurt, shouldn’t feel like that. Seventh place before the game against Augsburg is not what they imagined. But six years ago, on February 4, 2015, BVB was even last to receive the FCA. After the game and the 1-0 defeat, too, by the way.
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Who should you watch out for?
It is well known that Eintracht Frankfurt has an above-average attack. André Silva (photo) is second on the scorers list with 14 goals this season behind Robert Lewandowski. And with Luka Jovic, Eintracht has just signed another dangerous attacker.
However, his three goals (in three games) are not enough for second place in the internal scorer list. There is an own goal ahead of him. He has already met four times. Let’s see if he’ll be used again against Hertha BSC.
And otherwise?
Has 1. FC Köln landed a real coup by signing Max Meyer. Yes, exactly the same Max Meyer, whose contract extension at Schalke 04 there was a lot of fuss three years ago. At the time, his advisor Roger Wittmann was of the opinion that Meyer “can become an international class player”.
There was talk of Arsenal and Atletico as possible interested parties. In the end it was only enough for Crystal Palace and then in the end only for the second team. But maybe everything will be fine now after all. Now that Meyer has landed at “Real Madrid of the West”.
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