Ok I think it is time to congratulate vd309 for this solid win this round. We have Tuesday just a couple of hours after the submission deadline and the BSFL week is over for us!

I have no idea what is going on, but knowing that Luton is beating Brighton 4-0 let's me sleep better because there is no point in complaining and asking myself how Newcastle can lead 3-0 in this game against one of the strongest home teams in the Premier League and after Newcastle had lost four subsequent games. Brutal!

The worst thing is that everybody gets used to Hamburg being a 2. Bundesliga club, but they should definitely be in the 1. Bundesliga with all the infrastructure and resources they have. Hamburg games have well been worth a visit in the past when they were still a relevant team in the 1. Bundesliga, but this idea of Hamburg being one of the nicest addresses in Europe has by now been fallen apart. You are either a big Hamburg fan and go anyway, or you would probably not buy a ticket to ever watch a Hamburg game because it is sooo interesting.

@vd309 this will be a very short round for us! First time ever for me in BSFL that I had only one response being different and the game for that response is being played on the first day of the BSFL week.

We can either tie this round or find a winner. But after the Aston Villa - Newcastle game, the round is over for us

Good luck man!

I have just submitted a post in the Europa League thread and I recommend you have a look at it to see how all the games in the last few years when Chelsea was already weak then ended.

To my surprise, the last seven games Liverpool - Chelsea ended in a draw. No club in the Premier League has reserved the guarantee to win any of their games and we have seen it multiple times this season that the top teams in the EPL had big issues winning against the underdog teams. For me personally that is what makes the league so attractive and superior to other leagues. But let me say that a fact check helped me out to understand that it seems to be harder than I thought that Liverpool should be able to beat Chelsea at home. They were not able to do it in quite a long time now.

I don't fully understand why you are bringing up the League Cup final in this Europa League thread, but ok. I did a quick search and despite being off-topic, it is interesting what you just brought up as I didn't suspect this to be true, but you were right:



That caught me by surprise. This is eight games without a win for Liverpool, but what's more crazy about this is that the last seven games ended in a draw!

As for the Europa League, I am totally convinced that Liverpool will be on fire and that every game at Anfield Road will be a horror for their opponents in the knockout rounds of the Europa League. No team will be happy to go there in regards to playing against the 12th man, the fans. However, this must be an exciting adventure to play in front of that audience knowing that they give their everything in these last few months of Klopp being the Liverpool coach.

It is no surprise that the 2. Bundesliga table is so compressed in the promotion zone as well as in the relegation zone, but this time the relegation zone is worth looking at. As I said before, I think Schalke is on the fence of getting relegated this season. This game against Kaiserslautern speaks volumes and while Schalke lost, Braunschweig and Rostock won their games. The funny thing is that Schalke will be playing against Braunschweig on the next matchday. That's going to be a thriller.

Hamburg is doing business as usual! Giving the impression that they are very serious about their ambitions for a few months and then mess it all up within a few weeks. Fürth and Pauli both didn't lose a game for quite a long time and my guess is that Hamburg, in a best case scenario, will play for 3rd position.

This is certainly not going to be the end of the season no matter who wins the game. As you can see Bayer Leverkusen can tie a game 0-0 despite being the overwhelming force for the whole game. Yet it ended with only one point for them and although I understand that it looks as if Bayer Leverkusen would be able to win all of their remaining games afterwards, it's 90% certain that it is not going to happen. They are still facing several top teams and mental pressure would go up significantly once they understand that it is all up to them.

Same thing for Bayern as their last three games were 0-1 against Bremen, 1-0 against Union Berlin and 2-3 against Augsburg. It could have ended even worse than that for them. In other leagues games like these could be the decision. In the Eredivisie for example. But not in the Bundesliga.

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Game 1:  30, 25'
Game 2:  30, 25'

Did you watch the game or did you have a look at how both teams played?



Because now that it didn't surprise you that the game ended in a draw because you know how strong Gladbach is, what statistic did impress you the most here concerning Gladbach? The game was indeed easy and one-sided, but Leverkusen could not score this time. But saying that Gladbach is especially strong against strong teams and away from home is nonsense if you look at these statistics. 99% of the time this game ends with a win for Leverkusen.

I wonder how many here agree with you that they were not surprised to see the game end in a draw. I can tell you from the German Bundesliga pool I play, 100% of the people picked Leverkusen as the winner. Maybe I should reach out to you next time and ask for advice lol...

Frankly, this ball from De Bruyne could have easily been an assist. I get that it wasn't an assist in this situation because there were other players touching it before Ake scored the goal. But the whole situation was so close and confusing that in the end this was close to a coin flip whether De Bruyne would have gotten his assist or not. If the ball moved slightly differently and turned into an assist, everyone deciding against going with an assist would have been mad, too.

Xavi is gone, I saw some of that Barcelona game. Or to be more exact, I saw like the last 25 minutes or so. That was wild and Barcelona had the chance to increase their lead before they conceded three more goals then.

Whether there is a possibility for him to coach the club beyond this season is the only thing we can tell at this point as he gave the answer already. I don't know what interview you listened to or whether you read what he said at all, but if you did and you paid the tiniest bit of attention what's going on, then you would know that he will not coach Liverpool beyond this season. His contract will be terminated in the upcoming summer after the last game has been played. This is one of the few facts that is provenly true and you get it wrong.

This is why Klopp said that his most important goal was to bring Liverpool back on track before he leaves the club and before he makes the decision to announce that he will leave Liverpool by the end of the season.

But he also added that he wanted to be the person to speak to the fans and let them know his decision and the reasons for it. I think he was implying that it would have been leaked anytime soon now by someone else as there are too many people involved in these processes. The whole planning for next season was already going on and then he had to let the bosses know about his plans. That's when too many people become aware of it and then they can easily leak it to a newspaper or through social media. There were several good reasons why he made the right choice to make it public now and not wait until someone else drops the bomb. That would have left the club in chaos for a while.

Ja ich hab da auch mehr den Wettkampf mit Dir gesucht, wollte ein bisschen Spannung reinbringen für uns beide. Wäre zwar schon davon ausgegangen, dass Bremen einen klitzekleinen Vorteil hat, aber habe auch angenommen, dass Freiburg mehr Spielanteile hat. Deswegen schien mir ein 1-1 da ein guter Kompromiss zu sein (bzw. ein Unentschieden generell).

Bremen und Heidenheim, mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen! Bremen hat nun tatsächlich 6 Punkte geholt aus den letzten zwei Spielen, aber man sieht, dass auch jedes Unentschieden hilft und die beiden Mannschaften absolut nichts mit dem Abstieg zu tun haben.

Köln, Mainz, Darmstadt und im Grunde auch Union Berlin, die zerlegen sich alle von selbst. Da kommt so gut wie gar nichts und bei RB Leipzig, was die Tabellenspitze angeht, da glaube ich, dass wir vielleicht demnächst Konsequenzen beobachten können und Rose gehen kann, wenn das so weitergeht. So ganz geduldig waren sie da ja auch noch nie.

Mit Leverkusen finde ich sehr ärgerlich, aber nun konnte es mit den Toren in Minute 90+ ja nicht ewig so weitergehen. Fast 30 Leverkusener Schüsse im Spiel, 75% Ballbesitz und eine enorm starke Passquote und trotzdem hat es nicht gereicht. Kommt halt auch mal vor. Aber ich muss sagen, dass die Bayern sich grad echt einen abbrechen. Augsburg war drauf und dran und diese totale Bayern-Dominanz ist im moment ja vollkommen vom Tisch. Und wenn Bayern so ein Spiel mit 6 gelben Karten für sich gegen faire Augsburger nach Hause bringen muss, dann weißte Bescheid!

But what were the odds that both teams Chelsea and Manchester City will beat their opponents? Both opponents aren't some inferior teams from the Championship. Aston Villa and Tottenham are tough opponents and Tottenham was even playing at home when Manchester City knew that they probably couldn't start the game with De Bruyne and Haaland wasn't on board either. I think it wasn't that likely for both teams to win their game and if Manchester City didn't score shortly before the game ended, it would have been the second draw in the second top game.

I think this was the smartest move he could have made. He was in talks with the club and I think announcing the final phase of his liaison with Liverpool, which he really turned into a big success story, it can set free a lot of extra power and positive mood and momentum for them. A departure doesn't always have to be depressing only. It could initiate quite the opposite and the fans will celebrate him and the team like never before in every game they will play. In my opinion this move was smart and it kills all the speculation about him leaving the sinking ship in case Liverpool doesn't do that well for the rest of the season. Now the news is out and it is all up to him and the team. They can win all competitions.

They had a phase when they played acceptable football, but now they are going back to old but gold in a negative sense. It's how they started this season into the 2. Bundesliga and even though still 99% of the people would bet against Schalke being relegated eventually, I think this is more serious now than ever. It mostly doesn't really matter whether you lose 1-0 or 4-1, but in this case it was against one of their contenders in the fight against the relegation zone. Big win for Kaiserslautern and an even bigger loss for Schalke. But I like the trouble, it's sometimes fun to see clubs with so much potential being on the brink of getting punished for doing so many things wrong for so long.

Nun kommen ja neue spannende Gerüchte in den Umlauf, da Kloppo bei Liverpool aufhört und Alonso da ja auch ne Vergangenheit hat. Da muss ich sagen, das halte ich nicht für abwegig. Wenn Alonso das heir so durchgezogen kriegt, dann steht er bei Liverpool mit Sicherheit mit auf der Wunschliste.

Frankfurt war auch wieder so ein Spiel, da habe ich mich zu sehr leiten lassen von dem Auswärtssieg gegen RB Leipzig. Da war zwar noch das Unentschieden dazwischen gegen Darmstadt, aber ich dachte wirklich, dass das ein doch klarerer Sieg wird für die Frankfurter. Und wieder nix.

I have a fundamentally different opinion on that. It is actually quite the opposite. Liverpool can win several titles this season, yes. But they will for sure play in the Champions League next season. They can get a lot of money for Salah and I thought that there is still a slight possibility that they can sign a top striker and there was a rumor about some talks between Liverpool and Mbappe, which I think is not impossible and Liverpool would perhaps enough money if they sell Salah.

I think there must be some deeper reason behind this that so far nobody knows except for the people who are closest to all of this.

I don't think Klopp end up coaching Bayern anytime soon. The words he chose for his explanation lead me to think that he is really tired, there is more to this and he may have plans, but first of all those plans are to have a break of at least one year.

If I had speculate, I think there is still an open door at the German national team for the World Cup 2026 for him or even for the time after that. He now had a great time at Mainz, then at Dortmund and now he also checked the box for being an internationally recognized coach at a top team winning all titles possible.

It would be undermining his credibility if he uses these words for an emotional valediction and then sits on the Bayern bench a few months later. I don't think he would do that as he values his own reputation.