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They were within four points of relegation last year and lost Kampl, Chicharito, Calhanoglu and Toprak. Not looking good imo
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Sep 13, 2017 23:17
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Wow Köln is having a terrible season. 2 goals in 8 games is pretty bad, does the media in Köln already call for Stögers head or how many more games do they have to lose? It's kind of consistent with the rest of the german clubs though, this season everyone is just terrible in Europe...
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Sep 28, 2017 21:18
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If Ancelotti can't deal with the egos in the Bayern squad imagine what would happen to Nagelsmann. Van Gaal as interim would be cool because he doesn't give a poo poo
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Oct 4, 2017 21:43
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he's going to ruin his legacy lmao
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Oct 4, 2017 23:06
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They can always play Toljan on the right, especially once Guerrero is back.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:57
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So Köln has decided to sack... Schmadtke? Why?
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Oct 23, 2017 20:43
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Köln continues to enjoy 100% win rate this season (in the Pokal) 
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Oct 25, 2017 20:35
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Did you kick out that idiot millionaire?
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Oct 25, 2017 22:07
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Bayern crazy good with the penalties. Not one of those could be saved.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:32
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Hannover's Kreisliga pitch has successfully turned Dortmund's game to poo poo lol
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Oct 28, 2017 16:16
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A massive fraud that somehow still is ahead of you in the table
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Oct 28, 2017 16:32
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Don't think Robben is going to get that ball even if not fouled. Pretty harsh decision and just ruins the match now
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Oct 28, 2017 17:50
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Don't worry there's still tomorrow! 
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wtf is going on with Leverkusen, they were complete trash but now they're good???
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So we've got about 8 teams competing for CL places now? This is getting more ridiculous by the year. In other news my prediction of Leverkusen being Abstiegskandidat sure was misguided
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Think this is the season for HSV to go down for reals. Sad times.
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Feb 24, 2018 23:12
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Healbot posted:
Is it too early to call that Braunschweig will not get third? What about Dynamo?
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Feb 25, 2018 23:18
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Imagine being so loving greedy that a deal with Lufthansa is not good enough and you're willing to instead lend your name to a company exploiting people as slaves 
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antidote posted:They're just biding their time til Jogi comes available Jogi will surely step down after winning his second world cup this summer? Not sure he has any business managing a top club though tbh
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Apr 13, 2018 23:07
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Not the prettiest of matches
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Apr 18, 2018 20:33
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I reckon if Neuer is fit going into preparation and gets to train with the team the whole way through he could get the spot. Would be good to have him on the field simply because of his leadership, not sure ter Stegen is very useful in that regard.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:56
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Looks a lot like the Club is coming back to the Bundesliga! Can't believe their closest competition is Holstein loving Kiel - a club that didn't even feature in 2. Liga for the last 35 years. Meanwhile St. Pauli is doing their best to create the bizarre scenario of both Hamburg teams getting relegated at the same time...
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Looking at the last couple of games, there is no way HSV will stay up. Wolfsburg is playing a relegated Köln (rip) on the last day and Mainz will surely find two points from three games...
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Congratulations Nürnberg! One of two teams not as terrible as everyone else in 2. Liga. On the other end of the table stuff is completely nuts now. Lautern is even before the last matchday already the last-placed team with most points since the introduction of 3 points for a win. Ahead of them the team in #17 could have 41 points and #16 even 42 points in the craziest scenario  This means one the last day we have six teams who can still be relegated (Heidenheim, Dresden, Darmstadt, Aue, Braunschweig, Fürth) and two direct matches between those: Darmstadt-Aue and Heidenheim-Fürth.The only thing letting me sleep at night is that Dynamo have a better goal difference than Aue so in case those two draw are guaranteed at least a relegation spot.
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Escaped relegation by 1 point Feeling bad for Braunschweig though, in the 1. Liga they would be in 13th lmao
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Think one of Gomez/Petersen will make it. There are four positions to cut imo: -one goalie -one of Gomez/Petersen -one defender -one of Brandt/Draxler/Reus because bringing five players for the wing (+Müller, Sane) seems a bit much That is assuming a bit of a conservative option that focuses on a 4-2-3-1. If Löw wants to play three at the back then it might look a bit different but I reckon he'll stick with the conservative option.
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More like rage quits from the national team. Joining the list of players that are perfectly capable but shunned by Löw for personal reasons. In the relegation match it looks like Wolfsburg is actually going for it and will get rid of Kiel without much trouble
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No one told me this game was bought and I put some money on Bayern 
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It's hard to see Germany not top the group because the other three teams seem pretty evenly matched but possibly one of them could get 6 or 7 points and overtake Germany in goal difference. In that case the round of 16 opponent would be Brasil. Going out in the Round of 16 might even mean Löw quitting maybe?
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hopterque posted:Oh man I totally forgot about that. Stupid of me to think that maybe they'd want to move on from the coach who's obviously starting to lose touch before we get embarrassed. Tbh people have been saying this since 2012 but Löw is doing very well and consistency in managing teams seems a bit underrated imo. Going to the final in a tournament with lots of good teams like that is just not something that you can expect every time. Reaching the semifinal six times in a row in EM/WM is a fully sick achievement and I'd say Löw has done pretty well adjusting after failures like the semifinal vs Italy so is still pretty in touch with winning games and getting far in tournaments. If you find it kind of boring to always know to expect a run to semifinals maybe we should bring back the good times playing of like rubbish and getting knocked out in a quarterfinal to Bulgaria/Croatia that we had in the 90s 
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Team in the 2002 final: Oliver Kahn – Thomas Linke, Carsten Ramelow, Christoph Metzelder – Torsten Frings, Jens Jeremies (77. Gerald Asamoah), Dietmar Hamann, Marco Bode (84. Christian Ziege) – Bernd Schneider – Oliver Neuville, Miroslav Klose  I mean there are some really good players in there but goddamn!
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May 23, 2018 23:36
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St.Pauli fans should get the table framed
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Alright so Fussball is back in the 2.Liga best Liga so I thought since this year there are HSV/Köln generating some interest and no top flight footie is on maybe I'll do a little intro post about the teams. HSV  The Bundesliga dinosaur finally managed to succumb to being a badly managed circus sideshow for years on end and 2. Liga welcomes them with open arms. One of us! One of us! They kept a number of decent players and most importantly have a competent manager for once so are favourites for a promotion spot. HSV immediately proved they're still willing to provide good entertainment by losing to the local farmers from Kiel. 0-3. At home. 1.FC Köln  Completely overwhelmed by losing Modeste and having to play in Europe, Köln had an insanely terrible start to last season they never recovered from so now are back in 2.Liga after a few successful years under Stöger. Retained a surprising number of players including Jonas Hector who will be the first Nationalmannschaft player from 2. Liga in ages. Dropped 12 million on new players on top of that so everyone expects them to walk the league. Holstein Kiel  Surprised last year by making it into the relegation against Wolfsburg with fairly modest means directly after being promoted. Had a pretty neat style with fast attacks that caught lots of teams out last year but lost their manager to Köln and a few key players so I think they will struggle to stay in the top half of the table. Arminia Bielefeld  Belong to a long list of completely mediocre teams and had no business coming 4th last year really. No big signings so expect them to be in the traditionally large pack of middle-of-the road teams again. Jahn Regensburg  Did well after promotion (won straight promotions from Bayernliga and 3.Liga under Heiko Herrlich) and managed to not get immediately relegated from 2. Liga for the first time in the last 40 years (by being mediocre, which can get you pretty far up the table in this stupid league). Think they might be involved in the struggle against relegation. VfL Bochum  The former Fahrstuhlmannschaft has now been in the division for a while without much success and I don't see that changing this year. They might get close to the relegation zone for a while but are overall solid enough to stay in. MSV Duisburg  Another team that immediately jumped to mediocrity last season after getting promoted. Somehow their manager seems to know what he's doing and gets a lot out of a fairly limited squad that should be doing worse. 1.FC Union Berlin  Berlin's #2 has been struggling to get close to promotion for quite some time now and is usually pitched among the favourites to go up. This year they've again got a good squad together and will feature in the top 6 I'd say. FC Ingolstadt  Were crap last year after getting relegated from the Bundesliga. They're fairly rich though and will probably manage some success by getting expensive players in eventually. Sold two of their players for 7 mio and 5 mio respectively which to me is pretty insane for 2. LigaSV Darmstadt 98  Were even more crap after also getting relegated from the Bundesliga. However they sold world cup winner Kevin Großkreutz to Uerdingen (3.Liga) so they are now hopeless RIP SV Sandhausen  Sandhausen is a small town near Heidelberg (and Hoffenheim) and their all-time transfer record fee is 100k for a guy from Legia. They don't spend much money, they don't have many fans, they are consistently getting mid-table finishes and are usually hard to beat. Must be hard to swallow for Kaiserslautern fans that these guys manage to stay in the 2.Liga somehow and Lautern didn't. FC St. Pauli  Hamburgs #2 - or are they??? Will be interesting to see how they can fare vs the mighty HSV this season and every week they spend ahead of them in the league will cause much grief among HSV supporters. The team is wildly inconsistent and unlikely to string together a good run but on the other hand also not consistently bad enough to get relegated. 1.FC Heidenheim  The only remarkable thing about this lot is that for some reason all their players are of German nationality (except one Austrian). What a coincidence that even in our globalised world of football the good lads of Heidenheim 1846 are an all-white group of Germans with an Austrian amongst them! Dynamo Dresden  Speaking of good lads, my boys from Dresden were rubbish last year and just about avoided relegation. That's at least partially owed to using a possession-oriented style of playing it out the back with high-risk passes between goalie and defenders that can be a bit sketchy if your players aren't world class. But they stuck with it so good on them and I think in this season a top half finish should be on the cards after some promising signings. Spvgg Greuther Fürth  They deteriorated during the last few seasons and might struggle again even though there are quite a few Bundesliga veterans in the squad. Erzgebirge Aue  Aue is a former Uranium mining town in Saxony but to say that you can most definitely still see the effects of that on both fans and players would be mean and not very sportsmanlike so I won't. They're usually holding on for dear life on a small budget and this year won't be any different. One of the top relegation candidates. 1. FC Magdeburg  A former European Cup winner fallen on hard times, they managed to claw their way back into the 2. Liga after 30 years in the lower leagues. Usually promoted clubs do quite well in the 2.Liga so I expect them to not immediately get relegated but their budget is tiny and if they don't start of well they might get in trouble quick. SC Paderborn  No idea why Ostwestfalen needs another 2.Liga-team but here we are. After crashing out of Bundesliga and 2.Liga in direct succession they nearly got relegated in the 3.Liga too but turned it around last year and are now on rebuilding mission. They snatched up some players from promotion rivals Magdeburg but we'll have to see if that is enough to keep them in the league. So this is 2.Bundesliga 2018/19 - two massive favourites, a bunch of no name teams and hopefuls and lots of bad football to be watched!
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It's pretty crap to find legal options tbh. Some betting websites have streams in tiny resolution and the Monday night game will usually show up on BT3, Eurosport or some other smaller channel so if you can find a pub that has that channel you can go watch it there. Ah crap just noticed the 'in german'. In that case the only options either buying Sky or streaming it (German Sky that is).
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