Watched this the other day, quite a good breakdown of why traditionally bigger clubs are down in the 2nd tier.
https://youtu.be/VrrMZ2GsC5g?si=Yz-R-omplOmgXxEH
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Watched this the other day, quite a good breakdown of why traditionally bigger clubs are down in the 2nd tier.
https://youtu.be/VrrMZ2GsC5g?si=Yz-R-omplOmgXxEH
Quite a game in Bundesliga 2 this morning:
Magdeburg 6 Hertha Berlin 4
Just looked. 2-3 at HT and 3-4 after 55 mins? Strange result, although nothing surprises with Hertha these days!.Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Other than the slightly irritating style of presentation, that's a really interesting watch Der Kaiser.
Only just catching up properly on the results from last weekend, I think it might have been a case of Dirty Harry syndrome - In all that excitement, I clean forgot.
B2 didn't lack excitement of its own, 37 goals in 9 games. Honourable mentions to Elversberg beating HSV, St Pauli hammering high flying Holstien Kiel and Hannover netting 7. Add to that a thriller at Schalke, Düsseldorf going top with a fine away win and Hertha coasting to a win to ease the pressure on them.
This week we have Union making their Champions League debut at little old Real Madrid. Hope they give a good account of themselves
Another lively weekend in B2! After the Magdeburg 6 Hertha 4 result last weekend - Magdeburg go on to lose 4-0 and Hertha win 3-0 this weekend. As you say, some interesting and surprising results - especially the Hamburg one.
I was actually at the St. Pauli match. Sadly though I got an email just before kick-off to say easyjet had cancelled my flight back. Had to leave at half-time (with SP 3 up) to go and sort out the mess that ensued. Interesting to note (looking at the other threads) that the minute's silence was held and respected by both sets of fans . Always surprises me with the amount of beer consumed outside and in the ground!
Yep, be good to see Union doing well this week.
Ooops - 4-3 at Schalke. Closer than I thought!
Would you say that there is just as much of a drinking culture over there then Peter?
I always assumed it would be more restrained
I would say it is not more restrained, Harry. It's certainly more overt over there - you see loads of people drinking in the streets, public transport etc. before matches - more so than here I would say, where the drinking culture is more pub based?. I think that they are clamping down inside the grounds now too. There was no alcohol being sold at the Hamburg derby games last year, for instance.
In my experience, which is admittedly limited to just three Bundesliga matches and one game in the lower divisions, the attitude to drinking alcohol before and during matches in Germany was much more relaxed. There were loads of outlets serving beer in and around the Olympiastadion on my three visits to watch Hertha Berlin (the latest of which was in 2019), and fans were able to drink pretty much everywhere, including inside the stadium bowl while watching the games. If memory serves, you paid a 2 euro deposit on a big plastic beer jug with Hertha's logo on the side and it could be refilled as many times as you liked during the match. You handed the jug back on your way out and got your deposit back then.
I went to see Tennis Borussia Berlin play in the fifth division in late-November 2018, and my partner at the time was delighted that she was able to sit in the grandstand and watch the game while drinking mulled wine.
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I had to look them up. I imagined they'd be another team from the old east. I didn't realise that they are another Charlottenburg team, not far from the Olympiastadion. Crowds of a few hundred and quite an interesting history!
St Pauli only scored eight in six matches with more than half of them coming last weekend!
Never heard of Elversberg before.
https://www.soccerstats.com/latest.asp?league=germany2
Interesting that.
Yes definitely more pub based here, I'm not sure what the legislation is with regards to drinking in the street these days? I know they started clamping down on it a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/live/yxaPmHG...1nGrKSj0YwEQbT
St Pauli Schalke live on YouTube tonight. I didn't know they put these games on before now
Nor me. Is there one on every weekend?
Looks like it, a few games on live next weekend
Yes, I think so. Next week looks good. Hamburg v Fortuna Düsseldorf and Hertha v St. Pauli both being shown.
Another goal for Robert Glatzel yesterday (6 in 8 games for him this season). However, a shocking 2-1 defeat for Hamburg at bottom of the table Osnabruck, who had previously picked up just one point from six games and been beaten 7-0 at Hannover last week.
The one Bundesliga 2. game I ever saw was in 2000 or 2001 on an exchange - saw SSV Reutlingen win 8-2 against Saarbrucken. Shocking stadium, was a crumbling concrete block where they had us penned in like you'd see in the UK in the 70's or 80's and one of the other kids nearly got arrested on the way in because he forgot he had a pocket knife in his combats. But the only time in my life I think I'll ever see 10 goals, at least at such a decent level.
Another team that have disappeared way down the league structure... now in one of the regional Oberliga's. I think they had some money behind them in the early 2000's but still only managed 3 years in Bundesliga 2. before dropping back down to their usual level. German football is funny like that.
Maybe not quite at the level you are talking about, but the Youtube piece posted by Der Kaiser further up this thread is worth viewing in terms of the ups and downs in fortunes of German football clubs.
Successive defeats to Elvesberg and Osnabruck for Hamburg. I bet they didn't see that coming!
That's great, cheers. I really had no idea about that.
Hertha are struggling I see.
They’ve picked up a little, two wins in their last three games. They drew a crowd of 43,528 for their 3-0 victory over Braunschweig last weekend.
St. Pauli go top of the league with a 2-1 win away at Hertha. 60k attendance, with 12k from Hamburg. Watched it on Youtube and though St. Pauli looked worthy table-toppers.
I watched some of it. Incredible advert for the league
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