Who plays against whom and when?
Which game should you definitely not miss?
What a week. In general: what a strange time. You ask yourself what else can give you hope, the situation seems hopeless. But now it is eternal Dieter Hecking in Bochum, it is his ninth coaching station in Germany. Can he give VfL their first Bundesliga win of the season? Hecking says he’s not a wizard, but with his glasses he looks like Harry Potter. For the first three points of the season, the Bochum team has to beat the champions, who could currently be a good opponent anyway.
In the Bundesliga and the Champions League Leverkusen haven’t won in four games, losing 4-0 in Liverpool on Tuesday. It was the first defeat in the Champions League, in which Xabi Alonso‘s team is doing better than in the Bundesliga, where they are already seven points behind Bayern. The Leverkusen team has lost the self-confidence from the championship season. If Dieter Hecking comes up with something to stop Florian Wirtz, it will be a Bochum miracle.
Which game can you safely miss?
Leipzig against Gladbach. RB is in second place, only three points behind Bayern, but nobody knows how that can actually be. Even if you sleep in RB bed linen, you can’t really enjoy watching this football. Leipzig are terribly harmless, Xavi Simons, one of the few creative players, is injured. Because Marco Rose‘s team has only conceded five goals, they are in the lead. But for how much longer? Their weaknesses are noticeable every time in the Champions League, with Leipzig having zero points. On Tuesday they lost 3-1 at Celtic Glasgow. Nicolas Kühn, whom Ralf Rangnick once sent away from Leipzig, scored two goals. According to the Sports picture Oliver Mintzlaff now wants to change the transfer strategy: the best players should not be sold for a year. Then the championship should work. Great idea, maybe you can even get a few good players, maybe from Salzburg.
Who is in the spotlight?
The Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. On Thursday, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost their Europa League game at Ajax Amsterdam 0-5, but that was completely irrelevant. Because after the game, several Israeli fans were attacked. A video from the Reuters news agency and others on social media show attacks including “Free Palestine“-Shout. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it knew of ten Israelis injured, the Amsterdam police said they had arrested 62 people. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu wants to fly Maccabi fans out on two planes on Friday.
Anti-Semites prey on Jewish people and everyone they consider to be Jewish people – many Jews have been afraid of this for a long time. Especially in the Netherlands, where there are repeated anti-Semitic incidents in football stadiums. Speaking about Thursday night’s attacks, fan Yaakov Masri told Israel’s Channel 13 News that he was attacked by about 15 men armed with knives and clubs. “They beat us, broke my face, knocked out my tooth and cut my lip. My son got hit twice in the face.”
What a week. In general: what a strange time. You ask yourself what else can give you hope, the situation seems hopeless. But now it is eternal Dieter Hecking in Bochum, it is his ninth coaching station in Germany. Can he give VfL their first Bundesliga win of the season? Hecking says he’s not a wizard, but with his glasses he looks like Harry Potter. For the first three points of the season, the Bochum team has to beat the champions, who could currently be a good opponent anyway.
