Bundesliga Super-Thread warning post #4542

You can take the boy out of Tottenham…

After last year's collapse I'm not ruling anything out! Although I will take great pleasure in ringing my old customers in Hamburg who are HSV fans if they miss out!

Leverkusen win and Bayern lose after been 2-0 up. Leverkusen officially on the hill now 1 more win does it or if Bayern don't win their game

How bad are Bayern?

Tuchel has ruined them.

Look at these scenes!

What a team! And the season's not over yet.

and Bayern seem to have steadied the ship in the race for second, with Stuttgart loosing to Bremen giving them a 3 point cushion and a 6 pointer coming up soon in Stuttgart

The race for 4th is neck and neck between Dortmund and Leipzig but ill soon be irrelevant as the Bundesliga looks like it'll be getting that 5th bonus place next year and Frankfurt in 6th are too far back to challenge either of them.

If Im not mistaken no german team has to go into a qualifier so 2nd is as good as 5th with regards to champions league qualification, and seedings are based on previous form in Europe so again no benefit coming higher in the table other than domestic prize money and prestige it seems.

yep, looks like Cologne and Darmstadt are gone but theres only 4 points separating 5 teams who could end up in the 3rd last spot

Unlike in other countries, the 3rd last in the higher division plays 3rd placed in the lower division to decide who plays in the higher/ lower division the next year, so the Bundesliga team can still survive even if they are 3rd last.

It nearly always ends in trouble if not a full fledged riot, like 1860 Munichs last ever game at the Allianz arena when they got relegated from Div2 to 3 ( and within weeks they got bumped to div 4 as they were pretty much insolvent!)

Köln still have 4 games left. A real 6 pointer vs Mainz today. It's on Sky Sports Mix.

Ah, will never top Dusseldorf-Hertha Berlin! Seven minutes of extra time; after six minutes of which the ref blew the whistle for a goal kick and the fans streamed onto the pitch thinking it was over and they'd been promoted.

Took them half an hour to clear the pitch and play the last 60 seconds….

"Der spiel is noch nicht aus!" ("The game is not yet over!")

A hard year for Union Berlin, to have done so well last season and qualifying for the champions league to being in the fight to stay in the division.

Division 2 has interesting matches on Friday with the local derby of 1st placed St Pauli (that working class club in Hamburg in the red light area) playing at 4th placed Hamburg with a win for St Pauli getting them promotion and simultaneously almost certainly leaving Hamburg in div2 next year

3rd placed Dusseldorf is playing Nürnberg simultaneously so that adds more spice to the mix as Hamburg will be keeping an eye on them too to see if Nürnberg does them a favour!

And to think they pushed Real Madrid to the wire in the CL groups.

Hopefully F Dusseldorf get the playoff spot and Hamburg spend another season in 2. Bundesliga. I doubt St. Pauli will be coming back down in a hurry. A very good side they are.

Hertha need to invest in the summer if they want a chance at coming back up next season. Especially in the defence.

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