Bundesliga: Gnabry three times, perplexity twice, a bucket of dirty laundry

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Gnabry three times, perplexity twice and a bucket full of dirty laundry

That’s how the game day went

All results of the 16th matchday, the table and statistics for reading can be found here in star-Ticker.

Excitement of the game day

So openly dirty laundry is rarely washed in the Bundesliga: After 1. FC Köln’s 3-2 win at VfL Wolfsburg, double goalscorer Anthony Modeste didn’t mince his words: “I’m happy today because we played against Wolfsburg and That is the team from Schmadtke, “said Modeste of the ARD-Sportschau and expressed himself – so that nobody misses it – in a Sky interview and on social media again very similar. “You always meet twice in life. It’s nice to win here and send Wolfsburg into crisis.”

In the summer of 2017, Schmadtke, as FC manager, first loaned Modeste to the Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian and then sold it for a lot of money. A deal that the French apparently resented to this day. Schmadtke, on the other hand, reacts calmly to the follow-up of the Cologne audience favorite: “He can say that, it interests me and it doesn’t concern me.” In view of 11th place in the table and recently four defeats in a row, Schmadtke probably has other things to do.

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Match day winner

Moved and shaken: First he scores two goals, then prepares two and he shoots the fifth again himself: It was true Serge Gnabry Festival in the birthplace of the Bayern striker, who impressively emerged from the shadows in the game at VfB Stuttgart of the oversized Lewandowski kicked – although he also scored twice. Not that Gnabry would play badly otherwise. But only Patrik Schick and Erling Haaland have achieved such a record in a Bundesliga game this year in the Bundesliga. Going back to the year 2000 is the list of the “kicker” a little longer, but this game day will not only be remembered for longer by Gnabry himself. Oh, by the way: the man who celebrates each of his goals with a stirring gesture made Bayern the autumn champions. Early, of course.

Matchday losers

What do Wolfsburg and Gladbach have in common? Both are self-appointed associations for physical exercises (VfL), both have an animal team identity (wolves or foals), both like to wear green and / or white camisoles and both are currently losing every game. Four bankruptcies in a row are nerve-wracking. Wolfsburg was even able to pick up two additional defeats in the Champions League.

Coach Florian Kohfeldt, once a relegation coach with Bremen, is wearing his persevering face again, including slightly glassy eyes. And at the moment Gladbach is constantly getting “the Hütter full” – yes, if you trot over the green like the foals, you shouldn’t complain about shallow name jokes. Sky expert Didi Hamann already counted Borussia coach Adi Hütter in the studio. Dismissal of the coach before the last first round match? Always seems a little helpless. Nevertheless. However: the wolves have already passed the interplay – so far without any effect. At a loss wherever you look, both in Wolfsburg and on the Lower Rhine. Guesswork among the experts, horror among the fans. It’s been like that in the Bundesliga for a long time: It’s only exciting, interesting, surprising, dramatic at the bottom of the table.

You should see this gate (again)

On the other hand, those who lead the tableau also score a goal like Bayern’s 1-0 at VfB Stuttgart. In the 40th minute, Sané is played steeply from his own half. The national player has space, as VfB defender Anton falls in a duel with Lewandowski – without a foul in the game – falls. Sané alludes to Gnabry, who is free in the penalty area on the left. He takes the ball directly and flicks the play equipment straight into the top right corner of the goal with a lot of spin. The first goal of the day was also the best.

Picture of the game day

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