Bundesliga Week 7 review upcoming WCQ

Was up in the mountains in Quebec celebrating Oktoberfest and did not watch much TV. So what if everyone looked strangely at me when I tried to order schweinfleisch und bier, at least they had Bratwurst, sauerkraut and Becks. Most of the music was country music but it was still like Oktoberfest in that we were sitting in an arena on benches and a lot of "old" people were dancing poorly.
I only saw the Schalke v Wolfsburg (2-2) game and I was feeling pretty tired at the time. I think Kuranyi played in his 200th game according to the TV commentators and if so it was a good game for him. He scored two goals, the last to tie the game up with about 5 seconds left, this probably means he will be back in the starting line up for Germany on the weekend? Neuer made his return and could be faulted with one of the goals according to the TV mouthpieces but I think not. Why let a Brazilian take a penalty (remeber Zico) when you have the best German striker in the league (Not Kuranyi, Westerman!)??? There was a move towards the end of the game which gave Schalke the penalty that Rafinha missed which looked more like a Brazilian centre forward move than a german Defender on the attack. I kind of just saw it with one eye closed and and still feeling a bit "tired" from the night before but he took it really well. He has played a few times now in the advanced position and has looked really good. He Should get a call up for "die mannschaft " as a striker.

Tabelle
Pl. Verein Sp. g. u. v. Tore Diff. Pkte.
1 Hamburger SV 7 5 1 1 14:11 3 16
2 1899 Hoffenheim (N) 7 4 1 2 16:12 4 13
3 VfB Stuttgart 7 4 1 2 12:8 4 13
4 Bayer Leverkusen 7 4 0 3 18:11 7 12
5 FC Schalke 04 7 3 3 1 11:7 4 12
6 Borussia Dortmund 7 3 3 1 13:11 2 12
7 Werder Bremen 7 3 2 2 19:16 3 11
8 Hertha BSC 7 3 2 2 8:8 0 11
9 VfL Wolfsburg 7 2 4 1 14:11 3 10
10 1. FC Köln (N) 7 3 1 3 7:9 -2 10
11 Bayern München (M, P) 7 2 3 2 15:13 2 9
12 Karlsruher SC 6 3 0 3 7:9 -2 9
13 Hannover 96 7 2 2 3 7:11 -4 8
14 VfL Bochum 7 1 3 3 10:11 -1 6
15 Arminia Bielefeld 7 1 3 3 9:12 -3 6
16 Energie Cottbus 7 1 2 4 3:10 -7 5
17 Eintracht Frankfurt 6 0 3 3 5:9 -4 3
18 Borussia M'gladbach (N) 7 1 0 6 6:15 -9 3


Fr 03.10.08 20:30 Arminia Bielefeld - Karlsruher SC 1:2 (0:1)

Karlsruhe are now level with Bayern on points and will be hoping to leapfrog Bayern to avoid the relegation zone in a few weeks. Bayern's form hopefully does not reflect the form of the Nationalelf next week?

Sa 04.10.08 15:30 Bayern München - VfL Bochum 3:3 (2:1)

When Klinsmann took over the national team a few years ago, a lot of fans thought he lacked experience to be in such a high position? Well they were right, his style was fun to watch but they failed to win a world cup that was loaded with mediocre teams, he is doing the same at bayern, except they do not even play a high flying style (scoring 3 against Bochum means nothing). Instead he puts the shot putter Van Bommel as captain and decided that he did not need a creative centre midfielder they could also use a better central defender as well, oh and maybe everything through the centre from the keeper up!

VfB Stuttgart - Werder Bremen 4:1 (2:0)
Glad i missed this game! Stuttgart seems to handle Bremen easily. Four goals and Gomez did not score? To be fair Bremen had a tough game against Inter a few days before and do not have the luxury of resting players ( well they could put Aron Hunt up front!?) and this is my opinion on how they could do so poorly? So no call up for Gomez but maybe a call up for Sami Khedira?

Bayer Leverkusen - Hertha BSC 0:1 (0:0)

Leverkuesen have no excuse for at least not getting a draw, I assume that Drobny -the hertha keeper- had a great game and to be fair the goal was scored in the final minutes.

Borussia M'gladbach - 1. FC Köln 1:2 (1:1)

Cologne are now ahead of bayern in the Standings. I think the last time that happened Bayern bought half the Koln team? Or was it karlsruher?

1899 Hoffenheim - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:1 (0:0)

Hoffenhiem in the Champions league next year?????

So 05.10.08 17:00 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Wolfsburg 2:2 (1:0)
Kuranyi scored twice and will now get a call up for "die manschaft"


Borussia Dortmund - Hannover 96 1:1 (1:1)
Good result for hannover

Energie Cottbus - Hamburger SV 1:2 (0:0) Hamburg are this weeks leader but better be careful Hoffenhiem are right behind them


UEFA WCQ

Sa 11.10.08 16:00 4 Finnland - Aserbaidschan -:-

Germany's group and game you would assume the Fins would win but i am not so sure?
9 Schottland - Norwegen -:-

This game should be a draw?

Sa 11.10.08 17:00 7 Färöer - Österreich -:-
(-:-)
Die andere mannschaft" should win this game

Sa 11.10.08 17:45 2 Schweiz - Lettland -:- (-:-)

Die Andere, andere mannschaft need to win this game.

Sa 11.10.08 18:15 6 England - Kasachstan -:- (-:-)

England had a good game against Croatia and will win this game easily, but they will have a tough time against belarus on Wednesday.

Sa 11.10.08 18:30 4 Wales - Liechtenstein -:- (-:-)


8 Georgien - Zypern -:- (-:-)


Sa 11.10.08 19:15 7 Rumänien - Frankreich -:-
(-:-)
Probably the match of the day to watch.

Sa 11.10.08 19:45 1 Ungarn - Albanien -:- (-:-)

Sa 11.10.08 20:00 Schweden - Portugal -:- (-:-)

Should be interesting as well.


5 Türkei - Bosnien-Herzegowina -:- (-:-)

Ditto
6 Ukraine - Kroatien -:- (-:-)

Ditto
Sa 11.10.08 20:15 1 Dänemark - Malta -:- (-:-)


2 Luxemburg - Israel -:- (-:-)


7 Serbien - Litauen -:- (-:-)


8 Bulgarien - Italien -:- (-:-)
Sa 11.10.08 20:30 2 Griechenland - Moldawien -:- (-:-)


3 Polen - Tschechien -:- (-:-)

San Marino - Slowakei -:-


Sa 11.10.08 20:45 Slowenien - Nordirland -:- (-:-)
4 Deutschland - Russland -:-

This is possibly the toughest game for Germany, playing at home to Russia. The game is in Dortmund i think? If a lot of bayern players play, then the game will be a disaster!

Das Aufgebot:

Tor: Robert Enke (Hannover 96), Rene Adler (Bayer Leverkusen), Tim Wiese (Werder Bremen)
Abwehr: Clemens Fritz (Werder Bremen), Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC), Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Serdar Tasci (VfB Stuttgart), Heiko Westermann (FC Schalke 04)
Mittelfeld: Michael Ballack (FC Chelsea London), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen), Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart), Jermaine Jones (FC Schalke 04), Simon Rolfes (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (FC Bayern München), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburger SV)
Angriff: Mario Gomez (VfB Stuttgart), Patrick Helmes (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Miroslav Klose (FC Bayern München), Kevin Kuranyi (FC Schalke 04), Lukas Podolski (FC Bayern München)

Robert Enke will play goal. Loew is not sure that Mertesaker is 100 percent yet but I assume he will play as will Lahm, not sure who else will play but hopefully Westermann and Tasci?

The oaf Ballack will play as will Schweinie, not sure who else he will pick, probably Trochowski? I do not understand why Jermaiane jones is on the team list?

Maybe Klose and Helmes? Klose and Podolski probably?


5 Belgien - Armenien -:- (-:-)
Estland - Spanien -:- (-:-)
9 Niederlande - Island -:- (-:-)