Borussia Dortmund consolidated its position in 4th place on Friday with a 3:0 shutout of visitors Sport-Club Freiburg. Dortmund’s goals came courtesy of Donyell Malen in the 16th and 45th minutes, and Niclas Füllkrug in the 87th minute. Füllkrug’s goal was celebrating his 31st birthday on Friday, and the goal was his 10th of the season. Füllkrug also set up both goals in Malen’s brace. While Freiburg remain in 7th place for now, their chances for European competition are dimmed with the loss, as the club now lies 3 points behind 6th-place Frankfurt going into the rest of the weekend’s matches. Saturday’s early contests will see more clubs jockeying for better position in the bottom half of the table. Union Berlin go into their game against visitors Wolfsburg just 3 points outside of the relegation zone, and the home team has won its last 3 consecutive home matches. A fourth would equal the club record set in the 2019/20 season. Wolfsburg won this season’s reverse fixture 2:1. VfL Bochum 1848 are 3 points ahead of Union Berlin going into the former’s outing to Frankfurt, and will be facing a club that has won its last 3 home matches. Both of the last 2 contests between the 2 sides ended in 1:1 draws. SV Darmstadt 98, in last place at the table, will travel to Gladbach, and the clubs currently feature the league’s most porous defenses. Darmstadt have conceded 49 goals so far this season, and Gladbach have conceded 41. The reverse fixture this season ended in a 3:3 draw, but did feature a thrilling comeback for Gladbach from a 3:0 deficit. The big match on Saturday, though, is the late game between hosts Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern München, and will almost certainly set the trajectory for the remainder of the season, as just 2 points separate the 2 sides at the top of the table. The hosts currently feature the best defensive record in the league, and goalkeeper Lukás Hrádecky has accumulated 58 saved shots this campaign. In attack, Bayern of course features the division highest goal scorer in Harry Kane, who is comfortably in first place in scoring. This is the first time in Bundesliga history that 2 teams have at least 50 points after 20 matchdays. A Leverkusen win would give the home side a 5-point cushion in the table, while a Bayern win would give the visitors the top spot in the table for the first time since the close of play on Matchday 5. Looking ahead to Sunday, both 1. FC Köln and 1. FSV Mainz will look to gain on Union Berlin on twin outings south to Baden-Württemberg, when Köln travel to Hoffenheim and Mainz travel to Stuttgart.
By RIch M.
Borussia Dortmund consolidated its position in 4th place on Friday with a 3:0 shutout of visitors Sport-Club Freiburg. Dortmund’s goals came courtesy of Donyell Malen in the 16th and 45th minutes, and Niclas Füllkrug in the 87th minute. Füllkrug’s goal was celebrating his 31st birthday on Friday, and the goal was his 10th of the season. Füllkrug also set up both goals in Malen’s brace. While Freiburg remain in 7th place for now, their chances for European competition are dimmed with the loss, as the club now lies 3 points behind 6th-place Frankfurt going into the rest of the weekend’s matches. Saturday’s early contests will see more clubs jockeying for better position in the bottom half of the table. Union Berlin go into their game against visitors Wolfsburg just 3 points outside of the relegation zone, and the home team has won its last 3 consecutive home matches. A fourth would equal the club record set in the 2019/20 season. Wolfsburg won this season’s reverse fixture 2:1. VfL Bochum 1848 are 3 points ahead of Union Berlin going into the former’s outing to Frankfurt, and will be facing a club that has won its last 3 home matches. Both of the last 2 contests between the 2 sides ended in 1:1 draws. SV Darmstadt 98, in last place at the table, will travel to Gladbach, and the clubs currently feature the league’s most porous defenses. Darmstadt have conceded 49 goals so far this season, and Gladbach have conceded 41. The reverse fixture this season ended in a 3:3 draw, but did feature a thrilling comeback for Gladbach from a 3:0 deficit. The big match on Saturday, though, is the late game between hosts Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern München, and will almost certainly set the trajectory for the remainder of the season, as just 2 points separate the 2 sides at the top of the table. The hosts currently feature the best defensive record in the league, and goalkeeper Lukás Hrádecky has accumulated 58 saved shots this campaign. In attack, Bayern of course features the division highest goal scorer in Harry Kane, who is comfortably in first place in scoring. This is the first time in Bundesliga history that 2 teams have at least 50 points after 20 matchdays. A Leverkusen win would give the home side a 5-point cushion in the table, while a Bayern win would give the visitors the top spot in the table for the first time since the close of play on Matchday 5. Looking ahead to Sunday, both 1. FC Köln and 1. FSV Mainz will look to gain on Union Berlin on twin outings south to Baden-Württemberg, when Köln travel to Hoffenheim and Mainz travel to Stuttgart.
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by Rich M.
Nick Woltemade is a 21-year-old forward and attacking midfielder for SV Werder Bremen. Woltemade was born on February 14, 2002 in Bremen, Germany, and spent his youth career playing for TS Woltmershausen from 2009 to 2010 and SV Werder Bremen from 2010 to 2020. In the 2018-19 season, he scored 18 goals and made 8 assists in 24 matches for Bremen’s U17 in the U17 Bundesliga. Following 7 goals in 8 matches for the U19 side, he was called up to the first team on January 11, 2020 for a Bundesliga match against Bayer Leverkusen, but did not make his professional debut until February 1, 2020, in a 2:1 defeat against FC Augsburg. Woltemade played 1 season on loan to SV Elversberg from 2022 to 2023, and has also appeared for Germany’s U16, U17, U20, and U21 squads. By Rich M.
Borussia Dortmund’s 3-match winning start to 2024 came to an end on Friday with a 0:0 draw against hosts 1. FC Heidenheim. The tie leaves Dortmund in 4th place in the table, while Heidenheim, who are unbeaten in 6 matches on home soil, move 12 points clear of the relegation zone. The reverse fixture between the 2 clubs, back on Matchday 3, also ended in a draw, which brought Heidenheim their first-ever Bundesliga point. One of the league’s most legendary fixtures comes on Saturday, when Bayern host Borussia Mönchengladbach. The clubs enjoyed one of the league’s biggest rivalries, dating back to the 1970s, when they shared the Meisterschale in 9 consecutive seasons. Both teams arrived in the 1. Bundesliga in 1965, having won promotion from their respective regional leagues. Bayern were propelled by the trio of Gerd Müller, Franz Beckenbauer, and goalkeeper Sepp Maier, and Müller still holds the record of the league’s all-time leading scorer. Bayern won their first league title at the close of the 1968-69 season, but it was Gladbach who took the title just 1 season later. Gladbach’s coach was the the legendary Hennes Weisweiler, who trained coaches at the German Sports University in Cologne. Weisweiler helmed a fast and young squad that led to the nickname, the “Foals”, by which the club is still known today. With a roster that included Günter Netzer, Herbert Wimmer, Jupp Heynckes, and Berti Vogts, Gladbach became the first club to win back-to-back league titles. While Bayern have continued to enjoy success since the 1970s rivalry, Gladbach’s only domestic trophy since then has been the DFB Pokal in 1995. In the current season’s reverse fixture, Bayern came from behind to win on Matchday 3. Saturday’s matches will also include a derby between hosts Sport-Club Freiburg and visitors VfB Stuttgart. The visitors are enjoying a stellar season, going into Saturday in 3rd place in the table and are the only club in the league with 2 players in double digits on goals: Serhou Guirassy with 17 and Deniz Undav with 12. It was Guirassy who hit a brace in the reverse fixture this season, which Stuttgart won 5:0. In Saturday’s late game between hosts 1. FC Köln and visitors Eintracht Frankfurt, Köln trainer Timo Schultz has already said he is aiming for 3 points. The last time Köln only had 12 points this far in the season, in 2017/18, the club was relegated. Looking ahead to Sunday, Wolfsburg will host Hoffenheim in a contest between 2 teams that are separated by just 3 points. Both clubs have had mediocre seasons and are looking to turn things around, and the Wolves now face former standout Wout Weghorst. |
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