Topic: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread - page 1872. (Read 668929 times)

I believe that the problem wasn't really on Xabi Alonso alone, the whole team played a very bad game and I am guessing that they will keep playing this way for a while longer as well. I feel like it's going to be something a bit more complicated than that, changing manager became something teams do very quickly and too early and usually that's not the problem.

We have seen how Ole played after Mourinho was fired, do you really think that Ole did better than Mourinho could have? It all started there and since then all these clubs fire managers too easily. Xabi did his best, and team just wasn't ready for such a big force, Frankfurt played better than anyone expected, I am sure even they didn't expected everything to go this well.

I am very curious about the match 1. FC Union Berlin vs Borussia Dortmund. The attitude of the team from Berlin certainly comes as a surprise to all Bundesliga fans. Today, this team has a great opportunity to confirm that it is not a coincidence that it is in the leader's position. Union is doing great at home, only Bayern Munich managed to get a draw there. Borussia, in turn, lost the last two away matches and today will also have to struggle to get even a point.

It seems to me that all these considerations now do not hold, since Bayern solved all their problems in the Champions League group stage and at the same time in the Bundesliga they are not in first place after 10 rounds (even if they win today they will not rise to first place). Therefore, all priorities are now directed to the Bundesliga and I am sure that Bayern, who dealt with Inter and Barcelona, will easily deal with Freiburg.

With the incident of Leverkusen's defeat, it showed Xavi Alonso that it was not easy to become a coach of Leverkusen, the task given was very difficult because he had to fix a lot of shortcomings from the previous coach, from overhauling the players and rearranging the strategies used and when they still lost Xavi Alon is still being blamed even though he has fought hard and it all depends on the players themselves who can follow instructions and play well or not.

When it was announced that Xavi Alonso is the current coach of Bayern Leverkusen, I wasn't expecting him to do a magic overnight but at least I expected him to build the team gradually till January when they will sign new players but the result of 5:1 is too massive loss for Leverkusen .

Frankfurt  does not score too many goals but they can defend so I am surprised to see such amount of goals even with a red card three goals would have been normal. I am hoping Xabi Alonso will succeed in his new club.

On the first half actually Leverkusen can playing well and can created several attempts to scoring goals but everything was different on second half that they cannot managed their performance and conceded 3 goals only in 12 minutes so this might be caused why Leverkusen mentally down and they cannot bounce back even Frankfurt was control the game and gets another goals and so far Leverkusen has been conceded 8 goals from 2 matches in all competitions and this indicated Leverkusen defense is more worst under Xabi so he has a lot of works if want to avoid relegated zone and that's not easy

For me I'd say is to give the man a break, I think that he is really giving his all in maintaining a good game for Leverkusen, but It is not going to be solved in just 1 to 2 games, surely there will be ups and downs and you can not expect a change of coach will be a change for the team that easy, they will need to get chemistry and the coach needs to know each players skill and style very well, for me it is not really easy being coach the responsibility will surely going down to him, to get the team in top shape, for Xabi Alonzo I think he needs to be more patient in dealing with things inside the Leverkusen,


Exactly! It is not always the fault of the coach but they are sure they are always been the blame for the failure of the team, but I guess they should cut some slack for Xabi Alonzo in his 1st season, I think he is finding ways to get Leverkusen back on track, but he needs to see the things that were holding Leverkusen back I think the role of the coach is very much crucial to the team and he needs to see the whole team in the new perspective,

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Now here is the game for tomorrow

FC Bayern Munich VS SC Freiburg

Stake odds for this game are 1.28 for Bayern Munich 6.60 for Draw and 9.60 for Freiburg, right now Freiburg is in great condition while many are still hoping that Bayern Munich will get theirs and come back to this slumber, but me aswell I got high hopes for Bayern Munich too, I think they can get back from this but come back to the top, right now Union Berlin has 20 points and I think Bayern Munich is not that far for 16 points so there are still hope for them and this match my pick is Bayern Munich but I will be staying away with the betting,

For Bayer Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso, the team has conceded eight goals in the last two games. Having lost 3-0 to Porto in the champions league, Leverkusen has suffered another humiliating defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt with a 5-1 score. Coaches shouldn't be criticized because players aren't playing for them. In the January transfer window, he must clear out the deadwood. A successful journey always begins with a hard start, but I'm sure he will find his way at some point.

i don't think Xabi Alonso has a good experience to get Bayern Leverkusen back to their shape that we used to know them with, their team is just getting destroyed, the already lost 3-0 against Porto in the champions league, and now another humiliating result against Eintracht Frankfurt, for some reason, Xabi Alonso does not click for me as a good coach.

They are really in a great position now and that shift has made the topple Bayern Munich in the 4th spot of the standings, and in the recent match against Frankfurt they really outdid Bayern Munich, so it seems many are surely surprised about Union Berlin, and Frankfurt showing this kind of performance but the question is, could it last, or they are just lucky this time, or could they maintain their previous position?

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Now my picks for today's game,

1. FC Koln VS FC Augsburg

Stake odds for this game are 1.70 for Koln while 4.20 for the draw and 4.70 for Augsburg, It seems that Koln has shown some great improvement in their Bundesliga so far, but can they win against Augsburg, now I think that Augsburg is inconsistent with their results, and the same can be said with Koln, but they surely love progress, so for me, I will go with FC Koln for this match,

1. FC Union Berlin VS Borussia Dortmund

Stake odds for this game are 2.95 for Union Berlin while 3.40 for Draw and 2.44 for Dortmund, It seems that Dortmund is really getting good momentum for now, but can they topple the odds for Union Berlin, or the luck will stay for Berlin, many are saying that Berlin could win this out of luck, but I think they are really trying hard in winning every game, but for this match, I am going with Dortmund, and this has a good odd too,

Leverkusen is getting deeper this season, they doesn't belong to the spots in the bottom, yet they are hovering around the relegation zone after ~30% of the season.
5-1 vs Frankfurt is a very weak performance and the upcoming games won't be easy for them.. I am not sure at this point if they could finish in the middle of the table.
They are receiving much goals and they should work on that for real..

Finally in last night's match Eintracht Frankfurt managed to embarrass Leverkusen with a 5-1 defeat and Frankfurt managed to get a very large number of points so that in the standings they managed to raise their ranking position from 8th position, managed to get 3 winning points and now they are in fourth place beating Bayern Munich's position, this is a good process for Eintracht Frankfurt.

I wasn't wrong about Leverkusen to fail in winning against Frankfurt today.

Leverkusen were not even like they were in the field today. This was much more than I expected to see. Frankfurt dominated the game incredibly much and simply demolished them by 5-1. The red card made things even worse for Leverkusen of course but before that they were 3-1 behind already as well. Xabi Alonso has a lot of work to do this season. Because the team don't seem like they will be fixed very quickly. It would still be a success for them if they manage to finish the season in one of the middle positions in the standings.

only 4 points that they got from 10 games that run it is clear to be a strong candidate to go into relegation this season and did not rule out the position will remain the same until the end of the season.
Currently Bochum is one of the clubs with the worst defense in the Bundesliga so it is indeed difficult for them to bounce back this season.

Not really believing with Bayern can't reach 1st standing in this season, almost impossible if Bayern missing Bundesliga trophy after dominance ten years ago. Just temporarily with Bayern left 1st standing position and I think few games later Bayern back to top standing without any doubt because mentality Bayern have better than other team inconsistent performance, actually have different points left on second half season later and the only with Bayern will keep on top standing.

Leverkusen is not top performance in this season, drop to relegation zone and new manager Alonso can't give good touch how to bring Leverkusen back to champion league position standing placed. But conceded and losing 5 goals from Frankfurt can't believing how Leverkusen not seem like a team last season success finished at 3rd position.

I also thought (and kinda hoped) that Leverkusen would do well in the match today, but sadly this was not the case. I also like the club of Eintracht Frankfurt but in todays match i still routed for Leverkusen because they just have a pretty bad season so far even though they have very good players in my opinion.
I also like Xabi Alonso, i already thought that he was a great player and now i hope that he will be a successful coach. Even back in his time at Bayern Munich he was not only coming to get a few millions and leave after two years. He learned the language and the german culture very quick, which is not the standard for players from foreign countries.

In this match actually I had high expectations of Leverkusen who last week performed quite well but it seems my expectations are too high for them because in this match I didn't see anything that could make me say they played well.
Leverkusen played very badly in today's match 2 goals before the red card made them lose concentration and after committing a foul and the Hincapie red card their performance worsened until the end of the match.

does anyone here really believe that bayern will not reach first place? these teams that are now at the top temporarily are teams that do not hesitate to sell players when a good opportunity appears and in January the market will open, after January we start to see many teams that were well positioned to fall to the relegation zone and the teams big players like bayern are at the top because they buy good players and hardly sell their best players.

some of the results of today's games were shocking, for example:

Eintracht Frankfurt 5 - 1 Bayer Leverkusen

how the hell did Bayer Leverkusen concede so many goals? it was a humiliating result, they don't even look like a team that last season were fine, today they are fighting teams from the relegation zone

VfB Stuttgart 4 - 1 Bochum

apparently Bochum this season and the main candidate for relegation

I am not carried away by the Bayern position on the table but i am rest assured they are the favourite as they play home against SC Freiburg. Freiburg occupying the second position on the table doesn't mean they are good enough to withstand Bayern. I just feel they are privilege to stand there for the main time because if it were to be last season when Bayern topped the table with so much gap Freiburg would have been somewhere around third or fourth on the table

the victory of frankfurt and Hoffenheim made them shift the position of Bayern and currently, Bayern is in 5th position with 16 points. tomorrow we have 2 important matches, winning against Freiburg is a fixed price for Bayern so they can climb back into the top 3. but the union will definitely try hard to win the match against Dortmund, It's hard to predict whether Bayern will shift the top spot occupied by Union.