Borussia Dortmund

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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Borussia Dortmund

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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Borussia Dortmund

New season woes for Klopp as Dortmund concede in nine seconds

 August 24, 2014   John Welsh

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When Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich to claim the German Super Cup prior to the beginning of the current Bundesliga campaign, head coach Jurgen Klopp must have believed that his preparations for the new season were progressing as planned. Both teams were missing players due to lack of fitness and injury, but Borussia had assumed […]

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