Berlin (dpa) – To kick off the fourth ghost game day in the Bundesliga, Freiburg and Leverkusen are facing each other this evening. The 29th round of the season ends with the Monday game between Cologne and Leipzig. A look at the league:
FAVRE DISCUSSION: At BVB, after the 0-1 in the league summit against FC Bayern, Lucien Favre is discussed – even if the club insists that the cryptic statements of the coach in the Sky interview were misunderstood by the media. Only victories can help to weaken the debate about the future of the Swiss football teacher. Favre wants to hide the latest headlines, to which he reacted with annoyance: «In Paderborn we have to achieve a top performance again. We have to focus on that, nothing else. »
SCHALKE CRISIS: Ten games, no victory. After the recent downturn in the district club, pressure is growing for coach David Wagner. Little has remained of the promising clout of his team from the first half of the season. In the meantime, the Revierclub is the worst team in the second half of the season. Nevertheless, sports director Jochen Schneider gave the coach a job guarantee before the duel with the penultimate Bremen. “Together with David Wagner, we will resume this thread for the new season and continue where we were interrupted in January and February.”
WERDER HOPE: First the victory in Freiburg, then a strong performance and at least a point against Borussia Mönchengladbach. SV Werder Bremen seemed to have last accepted the relegation battle. In the weakening Schalke, the team of coach Florian Kohfeldt most likely has a great chance to make up ground on the relegation place – after all, the sixteenth from Düsseldorf has to compete with Bayern. If Bremen won and Fortuna lost, the North Germans would be up to two points behind Düsseldorf. Werder also has a catch up game.
DESCENT TENSION: The table cellar is very tight. Fortuna Düsseldorf, Werder Bremen and SC Paderborn are in the last three places. Suddenly the former Europa League heroes of Eintracht Frankfurt suddenly have to shake properly. The Adler team played a miserable second half of the season in 2011 with just eight points and ended up relegating. The situation at the Rhein-Main competitor FSV Mainz 05 is currently barely better: after eleven years, the Rheinhessen are at risk of falling into the lower house. Frankfurt will compete in Wolfsburg on Saturday, Mainz against Hoffenheim.
KING CLASS CLASS FIGHT: Because Bavaria is hasty, Dortmund, Leipzig, Leverkusen and Mönchengladbach are playing for the three remaining places for the Champions League. It is only four points from fifth to second place. Leverkusen can already show on Friday in Freiburg, Gladbach Sunday against Union Berlin. Then last against Hertha weak Leipzig has pressure to have to win in Cologne on Monday.
HERTHA-HÖHENFLUG: For Bruno Labbadia the following applies: All concentration of the present. The admittedly short era of the 54-year-old ex-professional as a coach at Hertha BSC is impressive: two wins and a draw in three games. “Without these seven points, we would have had an ass on the wall,” he says. After a Hertha season, which had already provided plenty of chaos and low blows before the Corona break, they look very tidy, almost seductive. Tenth place in the table, it is shorter for the international ranks than for the relegation place. At home against FC Augsburg, Hertha can take the next step – into a present with a more promising future.
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