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THE BUNDESLIGA IS BACK


As the more attentive readers may have noticed, the title is a little flawed. The Bundesliga has actually been back for a week now, I'm actually just getting to writing about it now because I had not started this blog last week. As the first major league back in Europe, (sorry Belarusian league but no one was watching) expectedly there has been so much excitement from around the world about this. Thousands or even millions of non-regular Bundesliga watchers are tuning in and selecting their favourite german team to support until Europe's other major leagues resume. Various football fans on Twitter scrambling around looking for the right Bundesliga team to give their support, while the German team's Twitter accounts making bids to get as many new fans as they possibly can, who doesn't love football Twitter. So naturally, there had been a lot of buzz leading into the second round of German top-flight football and I'm glad to say one of Europe's most exciting leagues has not disappointed one bit.
The crunch game for the second round of fixtures was undoubtedly Borussia Monchengladbach facing off against Bayer Leverkusen. With two of the leagues most potent attacking sides, this was always a match that promised goals and truly the game lived up to the billing. With Leverkusen coming out on top, in a heavily contested game, it was their star man and man in form right now Kai Havertz who grabbed headlines yet again for another excellent performance grabbing two goals as his side won the game 1-3. The match-up between these two really exciting teams had other very solid performances in it, like the performance from Edmond Tapsoba, the young Burkinabe centre-back who attempted a game-high 65 passes and completed 55 of those. Or, the performance that Marcus Thuram, son of former France international, Lilian Thuram, put in. Though he was on the wrong end of the scoresheet, his goal was well deserved for the high levels of performance he put in throughout the 90. He has really become a one to watch this season in the Bundesliga. But, we still can't underrate the performance of the man of the hour, Havertz. He has really come into great form after a comparatively slow start to the season. He had a match-high 86% passing accuracy in the final third and a really impressive 2 tackles in the game to go with his two goals. At just 20 years of age, this young man is certainly the most exciting German talent right now. A quick shout-out goes to Leverkusen's Finnish keeper Lukas Hradecky who made 5 saves throughout the match, though the xG had the match at around 2.27 - 3.47 in favour of Leverkusen. It was an overall great match for the neutrals that watched it.

With that aside, other notable matches from Bundesliga's gameweek 27 include The Berlin derby in which Hertha BSC absolutely smashed rivals Union Berlin 4 - 0. Hertha BSC has been really gaining some momentum since the appointment of new head coach Bruno Labbadia, as they continue to push up the Bundesliga standings. League leaders Bayern Munchen faced off against out of form Eintracht Frankfurt, with Frankfurt winning the reverse fixture 5 - 1 to condemn their former boss Niko Kovac to the sack, there may have been fears leading up to the game from the Bayern camp that another loss could really deter their hopes of claiming another title. But any of such fear was swiftly made to disappear with Bayern going 2 goals up in the first half, to come out 5 - 2 winners at fulltime. Exciting Canadian winger turned full-back Alphonso Davies managed to get on the scoresheet which must have been a positive for him. And, there was also RB Leipzig's 5 - 0 romping of Mainz 05 away from home. An excellent performance from Leipzig's star man Timo Werner who grabbed a Hattrick to take his goal tally for the season up to 24 goals (only 3 behind the league's top scorer Robert Lewandowski who himself grabbed a goal in Bayern's game), having already surpassed his personal best of 21 league goals. This RB Leipzig team is really displaying new levels of dominance under the tutelage of the new footballing mastermind, Julian Nagelsmann.

Overall, it's been another really exciting week of football from the German league in a time where there is really anything else to watch for football fans (again sorry to the Belarusian League for the disrespect), and I'm sure everyone is excited for what the next round of fixtures from for me personally the best league in the world even when everyone is playing, has to offer.

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