[Tennie]

Kurt, there's always one game on Friday, most of the games on Saturday, and a couple on Sunday.

[Tennie]

Yikes. Disaster for Dortmund. Just before the half, their keeper went for a ball and caught his knee with his own studs. Totally ripped it open - not something you want to see while eating breakfast - and now they've had to put their #2 in. They do lead Leverkusen at the half, 2-1.

Other halftime scores:

Schalke 2 - 0 Hannover
Karlsruhe 1 - 0 Bochum (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Cottbus 0 - 1 Hoffenheim

[acid911]

Yikes. Disaster for Dortmund. Just before the half, their keeper went for a ball and caught his knee with his own studs. Totally ripped it open - not something you want to see while eating breakfast - and now they've had to put their #2 in.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Sounds pretty bad. Hope he gets well soon! Knee injuries are one of the worst.

[Tennie]

Here are today's Bundesliga results:

Arminia Bielefeld-Werder Bremen 2-2

Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund 2-3

Bayern Monaco-Hamburg 2-2

Energie Cottbus-Hoffenheim 0-3

Karlsruhe-Bochum 1-0

Schalke 04-Hannover 96 3-0

Wolfsburg-Koln 2-1

[Locke Lamora]

[quote name='Tennie' post='164038' date='Aug 16 2008, 04:41 PM'Yikes. Disaster for Dortmund. Just before the half, their keeper went for a ball and caught his knee with his own studs. Totally ripped it open - not something you want to see while eating breakfast - and now they've had to put their #2 in.
.[/quote]

That sounded...I go numb at the tought.

This post has been edited by Locke Lamora: Aug 16 2008, 08:35 PM

[Tennie]

They only showed a brief picture of it. That brief picture was quite enough. Poor guy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[kurtsimonw]

Bayern Monaco? I've never heard of them before, or was it a typo? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[Tennie]

Nah, that's me cutting and pasting from an Italian report. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Bayern Monaco = Bayern Munich

[kurtsimonw]

Nah, that's me cutting and pasting from an Italian report. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Bayern Monaco = Bayern Munich

Ah right. So is Munich called Monaco in italian? What do they call Monaco then?

[Tennie]

Monaco. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[LaPalma]

That Monaco thing still sounds weird to me although it's not new for me. There was a popular German TV show (I guess it was in the early 90ies) with the title "Monaco Franze" which took place in Munich.

So...the first week is over and provided some surprises.

1. It seems as if Hamburg is NOT helpless without VdV. trochowski played a pretty decent game as playmaker and Jonathan Pitroipa looks VERY promising as well. I like that guy. Plays like dervish.
2. Bayerns defense without Demichelis is really shaky. 5 goals in 2 matches (one of those against Rot Weiß Erfurt...a team that plays in the 3rd Bundesliga).
3. Stuttgart once again have a great team. Gomez and Marica form a great duo upfront while Jan Simak is the brillant playmaker they've been looking for since the departure of Hleb. Also Jens Lehmann is still a great goalie. His performance against Gladbach was decent.
4. Hoffenheim...although one can only dislike them even I can't deny that they have a good team, a good coach and enough money to play international football in the next 3 years.
5. Dortmund are still stupid. They might have won their first match against Leverkusen...but to trade Petric for Zidan (Hamburg)....no comment.
6. Schalke can still only score from set-pieces...just like Kuranyi.
7. Some hard work waits for Marcel Koller if we want to win our next match (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[acid911]

For a guy that follows the German league a bit, that's quite a decent piece of analysis on all the different teams. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Good show, LaPalma. I should spare more time for the Bundesliga, for one it's not a bit overrated. Like some other leagues.

[Tennie]

Thanks for the highlights, La Palma. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

The fish doll is pleased that Stuttgart did well -- their away kits are Red and Black. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/96.gif)

[Fillipo Simone]

So now HSV has a croatian duo in Petric and Olic. Mhm, but I'll still support Dortmund. Although, yes, they really are stupid. And this is, I belive Jürgen Klopps move - he's the one who really discovered Zidan at Mainz 04 (he was only on loan, but..)..

Bayern ended their first fixture rather well, since the didn't have Altintop, Toni, Ribery, Jansen and Demichelis. And well...Klose.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) ..I'm not sure what's happening with him. He just lost it.

About that Monaco - München thing. It still isn't sure how the city got their name. Some think that it was grounded by Benedictine monks- Mönchen (german); or in latin Apud Munichen. But that seems very unlike IMO (because it seems the city name is older then the monastery). Anyway it's like this - the monk (eng.)= der Mönch (ger.)= Il monaco (it.). But the official italian name of München is Monaco ´e Baviera, in opposite to the french Monaco alla Costa Azzurra. I hope it makes more sense after the explanation..

[Tennie]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) It only took Mark van Bommel 23 minutes to get himself sent off today, indidentally while wearing the captain's armband for Bayern. I think he's got the first red card of the season in the Bundesliga.

Results:

Bremen 1 - 1 Schalke
Hamburg 2 - 1 Karlsruhe
Stuttgart 0 - 2 Leverkusen ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/96.gif) Gekas with the winning goal)
Berlin 1 - 1 Bielefeld
Dortmund 1 - 1 Bayern
Hoffenheim 1 - 0 M'gladbach
Hannover 0 - 0 Cottbus

Currently, Hoffenheim are in first place, being the only team with 2 wins. Bayern are tied for 10th.

Tomorrow's games are:
Bochum v Wolfsburg
Koln v Frankfurt