All-hail the Zinn-mann! HSV’s interim coach Joe Zinnbauer made his debut, against Bayern München, couldn’t be worse. But despite being dominated by the champs, Hamburg showed fight and determination that has been absent for almost two years and managed to hold on for a scoreless draw. Perhaps if Bayern had been a little more exacting, it still would have been a loss, but overall, you can’t say that HSV didn’t deserve a point. München still seems a bit uninterested in the league and it doesn’t seem like Guardiola has added anything. In fact, even the fired HSV coach Mirko Slomka could be doing fine at Bayern, with the squad that they have.
Leverkusen went down in flames at Wolfsburg. Things started out badly, as Donati committed a stupid foul and got sent off, so the VWs basically had a man advantage for the whole match. Although the Aspirins were OK for about 30 minutes, eventually the Wolfsburg pressure took over and Luserkusen got over-run.
Paderborn is the early sensation as they continue their nice start. I’m sure it will come crashing to end at some point, but every point now is one critical one against relegation. That said, they were an equal against Hannover, and Stoppelkamp ended up scoring a Bundesliga record goal-of-a-career: In the closing minutes, with SCP clinging to a lead, a 96er free kick into teh box was headed out. Near teh top of the box, Stoppelkamp chested down, then booted the ball downfield: 83 meters into the net!!
Dortmund was flat at Mainz, and have to worry about their injury list, which just receoved another member: Henrikh Mkhitaryan went down, and the Neons will be missing their Armenian playmaker for weeks. The team was rather lame and tentative against an active Mainz squad, and the hosts won the “Shinji” battle: Mainz’ Okazaki was one of the deicding players, whereas Dortmund’s Kagawa was largely lame like the rest of Dortmund. Forward Adrian Ramos missed a couple of sitters, and Ciro Immobile missed a penalty, so what do you expect? Mainz took their chances and run out deserved winners.
Freiburg must be kicking themselves for letting the hardfought match against Berlin end in a draw. Their problem was they had no defense against Ronny, as the Brazilian seems to be back in favor at Hertha, and he answered with two direct freekicks, the second coming 6 minutes into injury time.
Augsburg has righted their shaky start with another win, a hard fought duel with Bremen. The Fuggers were on their back foot, but eventually they gained the upper hand and pressed Werder back.
Schalke seemed to be undoing everything they gained midweek at Chelski. They were falling apart at home to Frankfurt, and looked for yet another crap result. But they gathered things in the 2nd half and fought back to get a point, and had some winning chances as well.
Stuttgart is definitely in criis, as they were outplayed at home by Hoffenheim, who really didn;t have to work that hard for the win, as they just waited for the incompetent VfB side to fall over.
Gladbach dominated most of the action in the Rheinderby, but Köln did enough to hold them off, and the game ended scoreless.
Total attendance 342,253 (avg 38,028), sellouts in Hamburg, Paderborn and Köln
SC Freiburg - Hertha BSC 2:2 (1:1) 23,600
1:0 Kempf (30., Schmid)
1:1 Ronny (36., direct freekick)
2:1 Klaus (79., Guedé)
2:2 Ronny (90. + 6, direct freekick)
FC Schalke 04 - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:2 (1:2) 61,798
0:1 Meier (15.)
0:2 Russ (24.)
1:2 Choupo-Moting (40., Hand penalty)
2:2 Draxler (50., Choupo-Moting)
FC Augsburg - Werder Bremen 4:2 (2:1) 29,044
0:1 Selke (3., Garcia)
1:1 Baier (14., Halil Altintop)
2:1 Verhaegh (45. + 3, penalty, Bobadilla)
2:2 di Santo (56., penalty Bartels)
3:2 To. Werner (77., Caiuby)
4:2 Matavz (90. + 3, To. Werner)
VfB Stuttgart - TSG Hoffenheim 0:2 (0:1) 44,000
0:1 Modeste (15., Rudy)
0:2 Elyounoussi (84., Volland)
Hamburger SV - Bayern München 0:0 (0:0) 57,000 *
SC Paderborn 07 - Hannover 96 2:0 (0:0) 15,000 *
1:0 Kachunga (71., Hünemeier)
2:0 Stoppelkamp (90. + 3, Hünemeier)
1. FSV Mainz 05 - Borussia Dortmund 2:0 (0:0) 34,000
1:0 Okazaki (66., Jairo)
2:0 Ginter (74., own goal, Jairo)
Sunday
VfL Wolfsburg - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4:1 (2:1) 27,811
1:0 Rodriguez (8., penalty, Junior Malanda)
1:1 Drmic (29., Bellarabi)
2:1 Vieirinha (45., Rodriguez)
3:1 Rodriguez (63., De Bruyne)
4:1 Hunt (81., Junior Malanda)
1. FC Köln - Bor. Mönchengladbach 0:0 (0:0) 50,000 *
1 SC Paderborn 07 (N) 4 2 2 0 7:2 +5 8
2 1. FSV Mainz 05 4 2 2 0 7:3 +4 8
3 TSG Hoffenheim 4 2 2 0 6:2 +4 8
4 Bayern München (M, P) 4 2 2 0 5:2 +3 8
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5 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4 2 1 1 10:9 +1 7
6 Hannover 96 4 2 1 1 4:3 +1 7
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7 Bor. Mönchengladbach 4 1 3 0 5:2 +3 6
8 1. FC Köln (N) 4 1 3 0 2:0 +2 6
9 FC Augsburg 4 2 0 2 7:7 0 6
10 Borussia Dortmund 4 2 0 2 6:7 -1 6
11 VfL Wolfsburg 4 1 2 1 8:6 +2 5
12 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 1 2 1 5:5 0 5
13 Werder Bremen 4 0 3 1 8:10 -2 3
14 SC Freiburg 4 0 2 2 3:6 -3 2
15 Hertha BSC Berlin 4 0 2 2 7:11 -4 2
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16 FC Schalke 04 4 0 2 2 5:9 -4 2
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17 Hamburger SV 4 0 2 2 0:5 -5 2
18 VfB Stuttgart 4 0 1 3 1:7 -6 1
1st line: Champions League
2nd line: Europaliga (+ Cup winner)
3rd line: Playoff with 2.Liga 3rd place
4th line: Relegation to 2.Liga