Shooting Star
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Watching Uwe captain Paderborn v Augsburg. The time somebody dubbed him the "honey monster" is still one of my overall favourite posts ever on NSC.
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[Football] Bundesliga
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Skaville
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Just had a fiver on Paderborn in play. Surely they’ll get a winner
Shooting Star
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Social distancing goes out of the window when you score an injury time winner after being 2-0 down at half-time just like Stuttgart did tonight!
Jimmy Grimble
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What happened in the Bundesliga in the last 6/7 years to allow Munich to become so dominant?
Up until around 2012 it was a far more open league with regular different winners - 6 different champions in 8 years to be precise.
Is it as simple as they’ve thrown more money at it?
Up until around 2012 it was a far more open league with regular different winners - 6 different champions in 8 years to be precise.
Is it as simple as they’ve thrown more money at it?
Shooting Star
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I'm not sure what the actual answer is, but to me it all seemed to start when Pep took over. They began buying all the best players in Europe like Douglas Costa, Alonso, Benatia, Vidal. It seemed like before Pep there was a very Germanic/North-west European feel to the team, whereas afterwards it became much more hispanic (and with it they became almost unbeatable). Felt like they went from being the best out of all the German teams on merit to being the best team in Germany by virtue of the names in their squad, like PSG in France.
Not sure how true that is, just how I perceived it at the time.
blockhseagull
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Depends how you look at the stats ... you’ve taken an 8 year period where they weren’t as strong ... before and after that they won most titles.
They’ve always been dominant ... they’ve won 14 of the last 20 titles so even if you take away the fact they have won 7 on the bounce before this season they won over half in the previous 13 years.
Weststander
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The astonishing stats of Bundesliga home teams failing to win continues a pace. It had been a 44% home win proportion pre-lockdown.
pasty
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Had a couple of bets yesterday with my usual success rate of bugger all. But also said to Mrs P, go on, pick the winners of 4 German games on this afternoon, so she did 
When she picked Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder Bremen away wins, I nearly didn't even bother putting it on
When she picked Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder Bremen away wins, I nearly didn't even bother putting it on
Weststander
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Had a couple of bets yesterday with my usual success rate of bugger all. But also said to Mrs P, go on, pick the winners of 4 German games on this afternoon, so she did
When she picked Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder Bremen away wins, I nearly didn't even bother putting it on
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Well done, lovely to see.
Jimmy Grimble
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Still far more open than the last 7 years though isn’t it? Just found it interesting that a variety of teams were able to challenge and win the title, then for 7 years and counting no one can get near them.
GREASED WEASEL
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Beach Hut
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My support is drifting to Werder Breman who are having a real go at getting out of the massive hole they got themselves in
patchamalbion
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I saw that! Class result. That league is actually insane, there cannot be a closer European league!
patchamalbion
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Take out Bayern and they have some very ‘winnable’ fixtures too!
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Shooting Star
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Cologne v Leipzig was a rather good game of football! Is it just me or does German football seem more end to end than the PL?