The Bundesliga returned after the international break with some frantic finishes after mostly sluggish first halves. The eleven goals in two Sunday matches were just one fewer than the twelve in the five Saturday matches. Rather than going through each fixture,
today I will review MD2 by asking and then answering ten questions.
1.Will Don Carlo be the only person to hold Bayern under 3 goals ?
2.Schalke’s One Direction: New Kids on the Block or Sonic Youth ?
3.Are Gladbach aware of this thing called forward passing? (Freiburg are!)
4.Are Eintracht an actually competent team? (yes)
5.Could you tell Bruno Labbadia that Filip Kostic, Müller and Halilovic are his 3 best players and they are allowed be on the pitch and receive the ball from their teammates? – Should Roger Schmidt stop with Calhanoglu as the furthest player up the pitch and the starting Mehmedi experiments and actually start Brandt + Pohjanpalo?
6.Is Ralph Hasenhüttl the Coach of the Year after outcoaching Thomas Tuchel, whose lineup changes (Piszczek, Castro, Götze over Dembele and Passlack) failed miserably?
7.Do Wolfsburg AND Köln both have sneaky good defenses?
8.Are Hertha going to keep winning games with below ten shots per match? Is Genki Haraguchi gonna be the breakout player for the season? – When will the Lezcano experiment finally be over in Ingolstadt?
9.Are Werder dead and buried, does Skrypnik need to get fired with a tough schedule coming up (at BMG, hosting Mainz and Wolfsburg at Darmstadt, hosting Leverkusen)
10.Is Andrej Kramaric elite?