Bundesliga 2012/2013

[Sally Cinnamon]

The fixtures were released today. The league starts on Friday 24th August - Dortmund vs. Werder Bremen. Dortmund and Bayern play in the Supercup on 8th August.

http://static.bundesliga.de/media/native/autosync/spielplan_2012_2013_bl.pdf

 

[Count Orduck]

Isn't there some kind of pre-league or something odd? Almost like a "friendly" mini-league? Or am I plucking that out of thin air?

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

I don't think so. Never heard about it before.

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

Dortmund meet Bayern at home in the third last game of the season.

 

[Count Orduck]

Yeh I've clearly just gone bonkers.

 

[Starkie_1]

I'm heading out in September, so will try to sort it around a Bayern game. Been out to Munich before and its an amazing city. The Allianz is ridiculous.

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

Isn't there some kind of pre-league or something odd? Almost like a "friendly" mini-league? Or am I plucking that out of thin air?

Yeh I've clearly just gone bonkers.

Maybe you weren't going bonkers then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFB-Ligapokal

 

[Blackwidow]

Maybe you weren't going bonkers then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFB-Ligapokal

That stopped in 2007 or so.

Today there is a LigaTotal-Cup with four participants. In this year it is Hamburg, Bremen, Dortmund and Munich and it takes place on August 4th and 5th in Hamburg. At Saturday Hamburg plays Dortmund and Bremen plays Munich - and the winners meet Sunday.

A week later the DFB-Supercup takes place - usually between Champion and Cup Winner - if a club wins the double it is Bundesliga Champion and Cup winner against second. So it will be again a Dortmund vs Bayern on August 12th.

But nobody takes this matches to serious. (ok, Dortmund probably will do...)

 

[Scrumpet]

I'm going to make an effort to watch more of the Bundesliga this coming season I think, and of course cheer on the caf's favourite German team.

 

[Maajid]

Marco Reus named Footballer of the Year 2011/2012

Rather than bump the old thread in the Transfer forum, I thought I'd post this here. Kagawa was fourth.

 

[R.N7]

I reckon Dortmund will find it harder to defend the title this year. They've lost Kagawa but gained Reus. Schieber will be a decent back-up, good on the ball, will fit their system. Hopefully Leitner will get some more playing time this season.

Mönchengladbach have lost Reus, Neustädter, Dante but have strengthen with Luuk de Jong, Dominguez, Xhaka, Mlapa.

Bayern with Mandzukic, Dante, Shaqiri, Pizarro.

Wolfsburg have signed everyone.

 

[Maajid]

I expect this to be a Bayern year again. Mandzukic is an excellent signing IMO - the right mix of talent and hard work. He has a real chance of becoming a regular, especially with Gomez having that operation.

 

[Godfather]

I reckon Dortmund will find it harder to defend the title this year. They've lost Kagawa but gained Reus. Schieber will be a decent back-up, good on the ball, will fit their system. Hopefully Leitner will get some more playing time this season.

Mönchengladbach have lost Reus, Neustädter, Dante but have strengthen with Luuk de Jong, Dominguez, Xhaka, Mlapa.

Bayern with Mandzukic, Dante, Shaqiri, Pizarro.

Wolfsburg have signed everyone.

Again? They are nuts.

 

[R.N7]

Olic, Naldo, Dost, Pogatetz, Fagner...Their squad is absolutely enormous at the moment. Magath is OM, original muppet.

 

[KM]

Some of the guys in newbies were raving about Emre Can. How do you guys rate him?

 

[Blackwidow]

Some of the guys in newbies were raving about Emre Can. How do you guys rate him?

Pretty far for his 18 years and very promising. Van Gaal probably would throw him directly into the team - Heynckes only if he has to. He is on the step up and will get some time in the first team this year - but not as a regular. He is further than e.g. Mitchell Weiser (another one of the U17s of the U17-World-Cup that joined Bayern this year) who will probably still need a year more to get to the level but is promising, too.

Actually he is exactly the type that Bayern is missing in the midfield - only with too less experience. Even if he still could play U19 they let him play defender in the U23 constantly last year so he really is a player that can play an allround midfielder - and he is fast and dynamic, too.

Last weekend they played the Supercup between Dortmund and Bayern.

In the match (and in some test matches) a position rotation between all of the front four - but especially between Mandzukic, Müller and Robben was working really fine. You could not see that Mandzukic only is working with the other ones since three weeks - including the week with travelling to China. Müller and Robben seem to be back and Shaqiri showed to be a real good option.

 

[NoLogo]

Again? They are nuts.

Seems to be Magaths strategy throw as much shit as possible on the wall and see what sticks.

He has gotten a lot of stick from the press for that even at Schalke but it looks like he just doesn't give a feck.

On the topic of Emre Can. He is definitely a major talent and actually plays as a creative holding midfielder as his best position imo.

But he is quite versatile in that regard a bit like Alaba but I think Alaba will be first choice again when he comes back from injury, mainly due to the fact that he is left footed.

Will be interesting to follow his development non the less, especially if Bayern can't sign Martínez this season we might actually see him play in his favorite position for a few games.

 

[gooDevil]

Dortmund playing in 80 minutes, might be the first game of many where Reus and Goetze start together.

 

[Jaap]

Line ups:

Weidenfeller - Kirch, Subotic, Hummels, Schmelzer - Kehl (c), Gündogan - Blaszczykowski, Reus, Großkreutz - Lewandowski

Subs:Langerak - Santana, Löwe - Perisic, Leitner, Götze - Schieber

Mielitz - Gebre Selassie, Sokratis, Prödl, Ignjovski - Fritz (c) - de Bruyne, Junuzovic, Hunt, Elia - Arnautovic

Subs: Wolf - Lukimya, Schmitz - Bargfrede - Füllkrug, Petersen

50th Bundesliga season to kick-off in 22 minutes - roughly 80,000 inside the Signal-Iduna-Stadium.

 

[gooDevil]

Is Goetze coming back from injury, that he's been on the bench lately?

 

[Adam-Utd]

that and he seems to be battling with Reus for the AM slot, the right wing Kuba seems to have nailed down now.

 

[R.N7]

Can't believe that Aaron Hunt is only 26, he's been around forever.

 

[gooDevil]

If Goetze can't get into the Dortmund first team they should probably sell him for the £40m or so he's supposed to be worth!

 

[Jaap]

Götze has had his injury problems and slowly being brought back into the team by Klopp - if he's fully fit, he will no doubt feature in their first eleven.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

How cool is this History of German football thing they're doing before the start of the game? They should do this in the premier league. Quality.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Bah, finally I get around to watch Dortmund and Gotze doesn't play. Been wanting to see for really long because of all the hype but never got to doing so.

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

How cool is this History of German football thing they're doing before the start of the game? They should do this in the premier league. Quality.

It's because it's the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga.

 

[Maciej]

Jaap, where's Piszczek? Injury, poor form?

 

[amolbhatia50k]

It's because it's the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga.

Yeah I just caught that bit. I thought maybe they do something interesting like this every season.

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

Jaap, where's Piszczek? Injury, poor form?

Not deemed fit enough. Thigh, I think.

 

[Maciej]

Ahh, thanks.

 

[NoLogo]

Bah, finally I get around to watch Dortmund and Gotze doesn't play. Been wanting to see for really long because of all the hype but never got to doing so.

He had to sit out most of the pre-season and probably isn't at 100% atm.

I still hope he'll get a good 30 minutes tonight.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

He had to sit out most of the pre-season and probably isn't at 100% atm.

I still hope he'll get a good 30 minutes tonight.

Ah, okay. Looking forward to seeing more of him and Dortmund (and the German league in general) from now onwards.

 

[NoLogo]

Dortmund with a bit of a sleepy start again.

They need to turn that attitude around or else they won't get past the CL group stages again.

 

[R.N7]

1-0 Reus scores

 

[BD]

Goal. Reus 1-0. Good finish.

 

[gooDevil]

The kid has fantastic accuracy, classic Reus goal.

 

[NoLogo]

1-0 Reus. Very composed finish but a bit lucky the ball got through.

 

[Sally Cinnamon]

That is diabolical defending.

 

[bosnian_red]

That's a great finish