Bayern continue to lead Bundesliga charts as others drop points

 October 24, 2016   Abhishek Das

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Bayern Munich are three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga after a 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach. Bayern attacked from the off and duly went ahead in the 16th minute when Arturo Vidal powered a header under the bar from Rafinha’s cross. Fifteen minutes later, Douglas Costa celebrated his first start of the season by taking David […]

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Borussia Monchengladbach thriving under Andre Schubert as defeat of Bayern Munich proves

 December 6, 2015   John Welsh

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Among the highlights of the weekend fixtures in the Bundesliga, there were two games involving the top four teams in the league table. At Wolfsburg, Borussia Dortmund claimed a dramatic victory via an added time winner scored by Shinji Kagawa after the home team had equalised from the penalty spot just two minutes earlier. The […]

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Aubameyang emerges from the shadow of Lewandowski as Borussia Dortmund continue on the goal trail

 October 28, 2015   John Welsh

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Bayern Munich may be dominating the current Bundesliga campaign having won their first ten games to lead the league table, while Robert Lewandowski has been commanding his share of the headlines with his goal exploits, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has also claimed a quite a few goals for Borussia Dortmund this season and two successive hat-tricks […]

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Substitute Lewandowski Creates Bundesliga History by Slamming 5 Goals in 9 Minutes

 September 24, 2015   R K Gupta

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Robert Lewandowski didn’t feature in the starting line-up in Bayern Munich’s league fixture against Wolfsburg on Tuesday September 22, 2015 . The home fans at the Allianz Arena in Munich were a bit surprised to see Wolfsberg keeping the ball with them for the first 5 minutes as Lewandowski watched from the benches as just […]

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Relegation issues provide an intriguing finale to Bundesliga campaign

 May 19, 2015   John Welsh

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Although Bayern Munich secured their third successive Bundesliga title several weeks previously, it is a totally different story at the foot of the table as the league campaign concludes this week. As many as six teams are still involved in attempting to avoid demotion to the second tier and none of the relegation places have […]

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Bas Dost now proving his ability in Bundesliga after two modest seasons

 February 23, 2015   John Welsh

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Since the resumption of the Bundesliga season following the winter break, Bayern Munich have emphasised their current domination of German football by recovering from a 4-1 opening defeat by Wolfsburg and a 1-1 home draw with Schalke to register three successive league victories without conceding a goal. 8-0 and 6-0 wins against Hamburg and Paderborn […]

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Wolfsburg players produce a fitting tribute to ‘Junior’ Malanda in beating Bayern Munich

 February 1, 2015   John Welsh

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The German Bundesliga resumed at the weekend following the Winter break and after the 18th round of fixtures were completed on Sunday evening, Borussia Dortmund are now rooted to the bottom of the league despite earning a 0-0 draw at Bayer Leverkusen. However, the opening Friday evening match featured second place Wolfsburg hosting reigning champions […]

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Freiburg ill-fortune spares Winter break embarrassment for Borussia Dortmund

 December 24, 2014   John Welsh

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Fixtures in the Bundesliga do not now resume until the last weekend in January and as expected Bayern Munich lead the league table at the half-way stage of the season. Their 11 point gap to second placed Wolfsburg is a record after 17 matches and the reigning champions have conceded just four goals. A last […]

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Improving Augsburg could test Bayern Munich in Bavarian derby

 December 9, 2014   John Welsh

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Unbeaten Bayern Munich may lead the German Bundesliga by seven points after fourteen games of the current campaign but the surprise team of the season to date are Augsburg occupying third position. They have won four successive games in addition to winning five consecutive league contests in their home stadium and they host Bayern in […]

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Domestic crisis looms for Borussia Dortmund

 October 26, 2014   John Welsh

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When Borussia Dortmund conceded a goal within 10 seconds of their opening Bundesliga match of the current campaign against Bayer Leverkusen, few people would have predicted that it would precede a wretched start to the season for 2011-12 champions with six league games already lost from the first nine fixtures. Borussia lost that opening game […]

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