Matchday 11: Twelve

By: Jan | October 29th, 2007

Lucio Twelve goals are better than eleven. Otherwise this matchday would have equaled the Bundesliga’s negative record. The 26th matchday of the 1989/1990 season and the 20th matchday of the 1998/1999 season will thus continue to share the dubious honour of being the lowest scoring matchdays in Bundesliga history.

Despite this letdown, the Bundesliga is still the league with the highest season goal average among Europe’s big five: Bundesliga 2.7353, Premier League 2.6636, La Liga 2.6067, Serie A 2.4444 , Ligue 1 2.2119. And It has been this way for the past couple of seasons.

Not all the low scoring matches this weekend were bad quality though. Dortmund came close to beating Bayern Munich at home, but the score stayed tied at 0-0 after some entertaining 90 minutes. The 1-1 draw between Schalke and Bremen was even better, but more about this match later.

Stuttgart is Beck / Stuttgart Beck in Business
Here are two creative headlines, for which the German press reactivated their highschool English. The reason: Stuttgart’s Andreas Beck scored the winning and only goal against Leverkusen. Whether that’ll be a step out of the crisis, or whether Stuttgart was only benefiting from a Leverkusen side, that played against Toulouse just two days earlier, is still up for debate. Anyway, since Bayern Munich drew in Dortmund, Stuttgart also closed the gap between them and Bayern by two points. In case anyone still thinks they should try and defend their title.

Hamburg and Kompany take all the Points
One-nil Hamburg beat Duisburg 1-0 thanks to Vincent Kompany and thank you Ian for supplying the creative headline. Hamburg is now only four points behind Bayern Munich.

Pantelicious
Watch out for Abby telling you how Berlin beat Bochum 2-0. Though you heard it here first and Marko Pantelic scored the second goal. Not a particularly exceptional goal, but I felt the need to stay within the fun-with-names-framework of this post.