Part II First Round This Weekend reunadará of the Bundesliga week and so would terminate the analysis of what was the first round. To do this we will focus now on the team performance of the post 1 to 9 °, which are those that start with an advantage in the pursuit of glory: the championship and the Champions League places and the Europe League.
1 .- Borussia Dortmund: BVB is the fashion team in Germany and I would say in Europe. After more than a decade in the wilderness journey rife with scandal, financial crisis and fighting to avoid relegation, Borussia has become the place for fans and history should be. Al BVB and I dedicated an entry
here, which analyzed more closely your gaming system and boasts eleven Jürgen Klopp. But the question for us all is whether the BVB fans endure the pressure and be able to keep this first post until the end of the season. Bayern has already launched its tactic of wear via press and Bayer Leverkusen in the shadow waiting. Logic tells us that among these three teams will the champion, but I bet it will be the BVB the hawk finally the title. Why? Although the BVB lose some steam, has a very good coach, a team perfectly matched and the pressure of Iduna Park will shake more than a rival, so that parties will continue to draw on. 10 and 14 points respectively when administered approach can seem insurmountable. And the BVB will not wear any European competition if they have Bayern and Bayer. Borussia's greatest enemy is himself and can be self-imposed pressure.
2 .- Mainz: here's the surprise team so far this season, Mainz. I was in the preseason to a modest 05 as one of the biggest questions of the league, after a good last season's expectations were high. Besides the signings had been low budget or in some cases transfers from other teams. In the dock were posted by a coach with little experience in the Bundesliga. Everything pointed to the collapse. Nothing that has happened, quite the opposite and should be removed because the hat to the work done by the young coach Thomas Tuchel. Mainz key to this is the game speed in midfield and up (especially in the plot of the average tip), which is almost electric, where young people stand Schürrle and Holtby. Tuchel addition, knowing that you have a very short staffing has always been rotating players with what has been charge less to their key players and get a very high commitment of the players off the bench. Apart from the above Holtby and Schürrle, Szalai highlight the front and left-back Allagui and Fuchs.
3 .- Bayer Leverkusen: warning and we came in the preseason that Leverkusen was one of the "covered" in this season to do something big. You may be a bit far from the BVB (10 points) but Bayer is a clear contender for at least fight to get into the Champions League places. It has a very balanced team in all its lines, uniting youth in many of its players with experience in Heynckes bench and individual doses as needed to paint the face to anyone. They have also managed to rally Ballack's injury that has kept him away from the playing field almost the entire first round. To make matters worse feature which has been for me the revelation of this tour player: Sidney Sam. The extremely rare in the Bundesliga and is a delight to see a player that combines speed and quality, whether in the overflow as tnat in the shot on goal. Other players have been very prominent Bayer goalkeeper Adler, the half-Vidal and Rolfes centers and the other end Barnetta.
4. - Hannover: very surprising can be termed the first round of H96. Curiously, in the year where less is spent is where best results are obtained the Hanoverian. The key to this is my coach Mirko Slomka. Former Schalke had thrown a lot of time off work until last year caught a sunken Hannover and at the edge of the abyss. Gotta save in extremis and now more time to work the team is amazing with this H96 and strangers. Hannover is clearly beyond their capabilities and logic dictates that with the passage of the conference should back in the standings, but remains unchanged Slomka speech: salvation is a stone's throw and Europe is the dream. The best players of Hannover in a very homogeneous group has been the versatile Schulz (now playing center) and striker Ya Konan.
5 .- Bayern Munich, the Bavarian have gone from strength to strength. The lesions of Ribery and Robben especially a team makes them a bit vulgar, something that is accentuated if Van Gaal erre que erre continues with the same system regardless players have at their disposal. Luckily for him he had to bet on when injured Olic Gomez and Klose and the German-English saved the Dutch coach of being on the brink. Gomez's 12 goals over the good performance of another "ousted" (Tymoshchuck) and Schweinsteiger have stabilized at a Bayern that was going down. Bayern end straightened out and has been climbing slowly. For the second round and the pair have Robben, Ribery, with new signing Luiz Gustavo. The question that comes is whether Bayern rallied 14 points separating him from the leadership or be stoned to death in the first round of the championship choices. And here I think that Bayern has lost any kind of initiative and that only eligible for the title if the BVB plunges.
6 .- Freiburg: excellent first round of modest equipment in southern Germany. The boys of Robin Dutt has signed 28 points in the first round, which gives them 13 points clear with respect to Cologne, which is the team that scores the border with the descent. This means that unless catastrophe Freiburg, validated, objective, which is to remain, thanks to a neat first round. The keys to this Freiburg is that it is a young team, which prints many claw their meetings and that goes equally aggressive at home and at home. They also have a striker on a roll, like the Senegalese Cissé (13 goals). Other notables are the young keeper Baumann, central midfielder Bastians and Schuster.
7 .- Frankfurt: the team of German financial capital has had a very placid first round. Even were for much of the Champions League zone. Good defensive network orchestrated by Skibbe and gunpowder above the Greek Gekas (14 goals!) Have certified the effectiveness of Eintracht, a computer that is more comfortable when the opposite is the one with the ball. With the passage of days, due to injuries and lack of quality parts on the bench, Eintracht has been moving in an area of \u200b\u200bthe table according to the real potential of the team. The best players in the first round, in addition to Gekas, the Swiss have been the means Schwegler, the veteran keeper Nikolov and clever interior Ochs.
8 .- Hoffenheim: TSG the first round had a somewhat irregular. The team has made best feelings in the end points reflects the classification. This is mainly Hoffenheim to it have been many points in the final minutes of the meetings (in some cases due to refereeing errors) that have located in European area. Anyway now the storm has shaken the TSG during the winter break: Rangnick sacked their coach, Luiz Gustavo sold and Ba in default for not having the importance that the player believes deserve. Too swell for a small club like the 1899. We'll see if this bill passes Hoffenheim because I believe the first game will determine the real goal for this season: European zone or fight to avoid desceso. The leading players of Hoffenheim have been precisely those Luiz Gustavo, Ba and Bosnian Salihovic.
9 .- Hamburg: Hanseatic the first round have had a very irregular. It is true that injuries have plagued the HSV, but Hamburg has been shown as a gray team. The group has proved unreliable, with problems especially in midfield where they lack both forcefulness in subtraction as creative ability in organizing the attack game. In addition, transfers (except Westermann) hardly have provided what was expected of them. The team's potential is actually higher than the position he is currently the HSV. Armin Veh is therefore already in question and the commencement of the second round does not provide the expected we will surely win the next coaching stop. It is difficult to highlight a few players of HSV in the first round but I would stay with the Dutch Mathijsen and Van Nistelrooy.