If anyone has a thing for desperate relegation duels featuring semi-incompetent teams, Germany has some on offer in all three leagues:
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1. Bundesliga:
Darmstadt vs. Köln (1.12. — 20:30h local time)
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2. Bundesliga:
Schalke vs. Osnabrück (1.12. — 18:30h local time)
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3. Liga:
Freiburg II vs. Halle (28.11. — 19:00h local time)
Duisburg vs. Lübeck (2.12. — 14:00h local time)
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3. Liga also has a top-3 duel on offer though:
Verl vs. Dresden (3.12. — 13:30h local time)
Just wanted to add that Sunday (26th) at 4.30 pm local time we will have the current heavy-weight fight of 3. Liga.
Dresden and Regensburg currently lead the table - both with 34 points out of 15 games. The teams behind them have a max. 27 points out of 16 games.
And on Sunday, Dresden and Regensburg will face each other. If this one does not end in a draw, the winner will move a whole 10 points clear of the pack.
And just in general: if both teams continue to be on a roll, the promotion race could become rather boring very soon.
HSV usually bottle just before the end of the season. While St. Pauli just put on the handbrake a few weeks before that and simply watch the other teams float by.
I need help identifying three logos: the one between Havelse and Mainz, and the two north and west of Emden.
Also: why are four clubs marked in green?
Yeah, I read up on the whole process on Wikipedia a few days ago; and a few other quirks aside, I am generally not OK with Leagues B and C getting their own qualifying paths and so leap-frogging higher-ranking teams. IMO, the play-off spots should be going to League A teams, and then trickle down to League B in descending order.
Yeah, I was just asking because I figured that goalkeepers always play a full 90 minutes (unless they are injured), so will easily be up at the top of any such list. But maybe they exclude goalies for precisely that reason.
It’s the same story everywhere. I think in Italy the first offer was 30% below the terms of the previous contract.
In Germany, experts estimate that the revenue in he upcoming negotiations for the new contract (from 2025 onwards) will drop from the 1,1 billion Euros per year currently to approx. 800 to 900 million.
I am all for 18 teams.
Btw, in Germany all cup games are single-leg. And there is only one national cup, like God intended. So there is still further room to reduce games in England, apart from the size of the league.