January 2nd and it’s Bundesliga again! Goal and SPOX look ahead to the 14th matchday in the German House of Lords.
BACKGROUND
And zack the winter break is over again: The 14th matchday of the Bundesliga is coming up. There is some news!
TSG Hoffenheim – SC Freiburg (Saturday, 3.30 p.m. in LIVE-TICKER)
The Kraichgau-Breisgau cracker! It could be a historic afternoon, but only from a Breisgau perspective: Freiburg is about to win the fourth Bundesliga in a row. It only happened once, in 2001 under Volker Finke. He was once a coach at SCF for 16 years, when Christian Streich is still missing a slim seven year olds.
The numbers indicate the setting of the record. In the past 14 games Freiburg always met against Hoffenheim (against anyone) and last year they scored six points without conceding TSG.
The often corona-plagued Hoffenheim, who, unlike in the Europa League, have so far disappointed in the league (13 games, 15 points, 12th place), can again fall back on permanent reserve Jacob Bruun Larsen (after Corona) and Diadie Samassekou.
Frankfurt – Leverkusen (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. in LIVE-TICKER)
To be unbeaten only ninth in the home table has to be achieved first. The draw kings from Main (8 out of 13) have only won once in their six games at home – and now the best away team in the league is coming to Frankfurt.
It will be the penultimate home game for captain David Abraham before he returns to his home country Argentina after the game against Schalke. The 21-year-old Brazilian Tuta will then replace the veteran. Perhaps by then Joshua Zirkzee will also play with the SGE, whom they want to borrow from FC Bayern as Bas-Dost’s successor.
Leverkusen, which is facing the sixth away win in a row and thus a new club record, has to rebuild on the left in the defense, since first Wendell and now Daley Sinkgraven were infected with corona. Now Mitchell Weiser or Tin Jedvaj will have to play as left-back.
Wait, one more thing: Martin Hinteregger is now on Instagram – faller!
Cologne versus Augsburg or how to get in that Goal and SPOX-Editorial would say: the “grindest kick” of the day. If you question this assessment, the repetitions of the past duels of these two teams are recommended.
After all, the Effzeh starts the new year with the tailwind of two unbeaten and cleanly conceded competitive games. The 0-0 in Leipzig was more than decent. Now Anthony Modeste only has to follow his (at least) second after his first competitive goal this season, then Sebastian Andersson’s failure could be compensated.
At FCA, Raphael Framberger is out. Alfred Finnbogason could get fit in time. And Andre Hahn should be back in the squad after the corona quarantine.
The Surprise Sixth Union has used the Christmas days in the person of President Dirk Zingler to skip the DFB and Oliver Bierhoff (“catastrophic picture”). The mainstream is not really the iron thing …
Both teams made decisive progress during the break, especially in terms of paperwork: Bremen, which recently won two competitive games in a row, extended with sports director Frank Baumann. Union has tied manager Oliver Ruhnert to the club. And the still injured ex-Bremer Max Kruse has brought his legal battle with Fenerbahce behind him.
Arminia Bielefeld – Gladbach (Sat., 3.30 p.m. in LIVE-TICKER)
13 games, 18 points, six unsuccessful competitive games before winning the Cup against Elversberg – everything is still possible in the Gladbach season, but so far it has been rather disappointing in the league. The foals have to do without Marcus Thuram and Max Eberl for a while, who unlike the “Spucker” voluntarily takes a break in January.
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– Borussia (@borussia) December 31, 2020
Bielefeld has eight points less, the win at Schalke at the end of the year was worth gold. And it will be even nicer if the start in 2021 succeeds.
Rich and not sexy against poor and sometimes more beautiful – the duel between the two crisis clubs promises a lot of explosiveness. Whereby you have to relativize the word crisis for the Berliners in view of the bad Schalke point yield, after all, Hertha has collected 3.25 times as many points as S04.
So that that changes or something positive happens at all, Schalke has strengthened itself with the fourth official Christian Gross. He wears a shark tooth around his neck and says things like: “I don’t ask 120 percent of the players – that’s simply not possible.”
The bottom of the table is only two non-wins away from the negative record of Tasmania Berlin – it would fit like a fist if Schalke breaks this momentum in the capital of all places. And without the new half year captain Sead Kolasinac!
Hertha is only just above the line, has had a disastrous year 2020 (Klinsmann! Kalou! Lehmann! Windhorst!) And won first in the local concrete bowl. But now Juve high-class reservist Federico Bernardeschi is supposed to come, then things will really go round.
Four pages of letters made football a minor matter in Stuttgart on Wednesday afternoon and we can already be excited to see how the young VfB squad deal with the current events against the young RBL squad. What is meant, of course, is the open break with President Claus Vogt, put on paper by Thomas Hitzlsperger, who will undoubtedly overshadow the events before and after the game.
However, this surprisingly strong Stuttgart team can be trusted to fade out the farce in their own club on the field and also to stand up to Leipzig. The prerequisites of a statistical nature are rather only semi: The Swabians are still without a home win.
Dear VfB’ler, after the publication of my candidacy @SWRsport Regarding the presidency, I would like to explain my reasons for this in an open letterhttps://t.co/OZ0wqHjENR
– Thomas Hitzlsperger (@ThomasHitz) December 30, 2020
Before the 150th Bundesliga game in the Leipzig club’s history, it is important to know: “It’s not like I call Fuschl and say: We have Covid-19, transfer the money to us,” said RB CEO Oliver Mintzlaff.
BVB – VfL Wolfsburg (Sun., 3.30 p.m. in LIVE-TICKER)
“Terzic sets a negative Krauss / Lattek record” – that could be a headline after this game. For that, BVB would have to lose the game against the Wolves, because that’s the only way to get the fourth home defeat in a row. It only existed once, in the 1999/2000 season under the 13-game zero-win coach Bernd Krauss and his successor Udo Lattek.
What makes the Black and Yellows positive: Striker Erling Haaland is fit again and as the past few weeks without him have shown, this is very good news. But be careful: Wolfsburg is a tough nut to crack, has lost, like all four teams before Dortmund, only once this season and won back half the team after corona infections or contacts.
FC Bayern – 1. FSV Mainz 05 (Sun., 6 p.m. in LIVE-TICKER)
If you looked at Mainz for the past two weeks, you got the impression: Now just quickly collect the gossip from Bayern, then go home and restart the season. Because after the performance in Munich, the 05er will install Bo Svensson as a trainer and try with the two newcomers Christian Heidel and Martin Schmidt to get a few more points than the previously measly six points.
However: Mainz will then continue with their opponents Frankfurt, Dortmund, Wolfsburg, Leipzig and Stuttgart – all of which are not exactly direct competitors. And with Bavaria? A winter break ended without any major background noise. It should be the final six months of David Alaba in the jersey of the record champions, but Tiago Dantas has been playing for the professionals since January.
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