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Bayern Munich spent Tuesday night in Stavanger being held to a 3-3 draw by Viking FK — a team whose budget probably doesn't cover Harry Kane's laundry bill — and getting Michael Olise sent off for throwing a ball at an opponent. Four days later they put six goals past RB Leipzig, with Luis Díaz scoring a hat-trick and Kane marking his 100th Bundesliga appearance with his 102nd league goal. Same club, same week, two completely different realities. We explain how both are true at once. Borussia Dortmund had an even stranger seven days: they lost 1-0 in the Champions League to Bodø/Glimt, a club from a Norwegian city of about 50,000 people best known for fishing and the northern lights, with manager Niko Kovač publicly admitting his team "weren't even in the game" until they conceded. Three days later they were held scoreless by Union Berlin and are still unbeaten domestically, which is either remarkable resilience or proof that "unbeaten" has become a very low bar to clear. Bayer Leverkusen quietly had the…
Bayern Munich spent Tuesday night in Stavanger being held to a 3-3 draw by Viking FK — a team whose budget probably doesn't cover Harry Kane's laundry bill — and getting Michael Olise sent off for throwing a ball at an opponent. Four days later they put six goals past RB Leipzig, with Luis Díaz scoring a hat-trick and Kane marking his 100th Bundesliga appearance with his 102nd league goal. Same club, same week, two completely different realities. We explain how both are true at once. Borussia Dortmund had an even stranger seven days: they lost 1-0 in the Champions League to Bodø/Glimt, a club from a Norwegian city of about 50,000 people best known for fishing and the northern lights, with manager Niko Kovač publicly admitting his team "weren't even in the game" until they conceded. Three days later they were held scoreless by Union Berlin and are still unbeaten domestically, which is either remarkable resilience or proof that "unbeaten" has become a very low bar to clear. Bayer Leverkusen quietly had the…
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Bayern Put Six Past Leipzig Four Days After Nearly Losing To Part-Timers From Norway, Dortmund Get Turned Over By A Fishing Town In Europe, And Gladbach Are Still Winless Under Manager Number Two
PoslušanoBayern Munich spent Tuesday night in Stavanger being held to a 3-3 draw by Viking FK — a team whose budget probably doesn't cover Harry Kane's laundry bill — and getting Michael Olise sent off for throwing a ball at an opponent. Four days later they put six goals past RB Leipzig, with Luis Díaz scoring a hat-trick and Kane marking his 100th Bundesliga appearance with his 102nd league goal. Same club, same week, two completely different realities. We explain how both are true at once. Borussia Dortmund had an even stranger seven days: they lost 1-0 in the Champions League to Bodø/Glimt, a club from a Norwegian city of about 50,000 people best known for fishing and the northern lights, with manager Niko Kovač publicly admitting his team "weren't even in the game" until they conceded. Three days later they were held scoreless by Union Berlin and are still unbeaten domestically, which is either remarkable resilience or proof that "unbeaten" has become a very low bar to clear. Bayer Leverkusen quietly had the…
Freiburg Are Top, Bayern Concede In Under Nine Seconds, And Leipzig Remember They Have Strikers
PoslušanoFreiburg beat Schalke 2-1 and, because football is a cruel and petty sport, that result alone was enough to put them above Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga — not because Dortmund lost, but because Dortmund drew and Freiburg's goal difference is better. Dortmund are still unbeaten. They're just unbeaten in second place now. We explain how that works, slowly, for anyone who thought "top of the table" meant something stable. Bayern Munich somehow conceded a goal before most of their fans had sat down — Augsburg's Robin Fellhauer scored in under nine seconds from kickoff, reportedly the fastest goal in Bundesliga history, by exploiting a Manuel Neuer pass that should've been a formality. Bayern needed two Harry Kane assists just to draw 2-2. Jamal Musiala missed it with a knock from international duty, Saibari filled in fine, and that's the last we're saying about that. RB Leipzig put six goals past Eintracht Frankfurt, with Christopher Nkunku scoring a hat-trick, because apparently all that squad…
Bayern Hang Seven On Union Berlin, Kane Breaks The Century Record, Dortmund Stay Boringly Perfect
PoslušanoHarry Kane became the fastest player in Bundesliga history to a century of league goals, and did it inside a 7-0 demolition of Union Berlin that also featured Michael Olise's first career hat-trick. That alone would headline most weeks. Instead it has to share the podium with Borussia Dortmund, who ground out a 1-0 win at Stuttgart to stay perfect through four games and go top of the table, and with SC Freiburg, whose three-game winning start finally ended in a wild 2-2 at Frankfurt. Elsewhere: Werder Bremen came back from 2-0 down to beat Augsburg with a stoppage-time winner, Borussia Mönchengladbach fired their head coach and then lost 4-3 in a seven-goal circus against Mainz, Hamburg won a league match for the first time this season, and Bayer Leverkusen beat RB Leipzig to continue building some real form. In Europe, Leverkusen won their Europa League opener while Hoffenheim lost theirs. And Jürgen Klopp named his first Germany squad — all 44 players of it — leaving out Maximilian Beier, who responded the…
Freiburg Top The Table, Bayern Survive Elversberg, Hertha Berlin Are Actually Perfect
PoslušanoSC Freiburg are top of the Bundesliga after three matchdays. Say that sentence out loud a few times, because it doesn't get less strange. A 5-0 demolition of ten-man Gladbach puts them there on goal difference over an equally perfect Dortmund, who needed goals from Fabio Silva and a Felix Nmecha brace to see off Paderborn. Bayern Munich, meanwhile, had to go to a town of 13,000 people and grind out a 2-1 win over newly-promoted SV Elversberg, who very nearly repeated their opening-day miracle against Leverkusen — and who gave Bayern a real fright before Harry Kane's 72nd-minute winner settled it. Elsewhere: RB Leipzig went from a historic 4-1 Champions League beating at Como to putting five goals past a hapless Hamburg side that still hasn't scored a league goal this season. Schalke picked up their first win with a dramatic 3-1 away at Union Berlin. Augsburg and Leverkusen played out a VAR-heavy 2-2. Frankfurt beat rivals Mainz to hand Adi Hütter his first win back in the job. And down in 2. Bundesliga,…
Schalke Held Bayern, Elversberg Won Again, and Leipzig Came Back to Earth
PoslušanoBayern's unbeaten start to the season continues, but their 59-match scoring streak doesn't — held to a goalless draw by newly promoted Schalke at the Veltins-Arena, in front of a crowd that celebrated the point like a trophy. Jamal Musiala made his first appearance back from the neurological condition that caused him to collapse twice in preseason — Kompany confirmed it's seizure-related and said a recurrence "wouldn't be a big deal," which we unpack carefully. Elversberg are two wins from two Bundesliga matches. After shocking Leverkusen on opening day, they came from behind twice at Gladbach — with their own head coach sent off at halftime — to win 4-3 through a stoppage-time Maurice Krattenmacher winner. Population 13,000, and undefeated. RB Leipzig came back to earth after their emphatic opening win, losing 3-1 at Werder Bremen. Leverkusen answered last week's shock defeat with a 4-0 win over Union Berlin. Dortmund won 3-2 at Hoffenheim but confirmed their big summer signing Giannis Konstantelias is out…