Bundesliga Super-Thread warning post #4542

Sky have been a disaster for the Bundelsliga in this part of the world. I didn't even know Bundesliga 2 was back last weekend. I thought it was this weekend. I would have watched that for sure. It's a shame BT/TNT didn't hold on to it. If they have the rights for something, they show it, end of. Sky are so random with their coverage. One Friday a game could be televised and the next Friday it might be only on bloody phone app. More than once last season when games were advertised for the app/you tube, they actually forgot to put the match on. And unless it's Bayern v Dortmund, there is zero advertising. It almost feels like the got the rights for the sole purpose trying to demean the league.

Anyway, I will watch Hertha today (if sky remember to switch in on). I wouldn't be surprised if they got relegated again this season. The club are in a bad way.

They badly need a number 9

Schalke v Kaiserslautern on at 19.30

https://www.youtube.com/live/eyc0LoU6ULE?feature=share

Looks like another long season for Hamburg and its fans. Good comeback in the second half, only to lose 2 points at the 95th minute...

Sky Sports have suddenly decided to remind their viewers that they have Bundesliga rights.

Always tough to get tickets for games against Bayern as you are competing with their fans who are everywhere. Best chance is probably a site like Viagogo as much as I detest them.

Even Augsburg fans don't want to watch Augsburg play to be honest.

He's on the bench

Sky sports have made this available on their website

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11881/12938567/free-stream-watch-harry-kanes-bayern-munich-debut-vs-rb-leipzig-in-german-super-cup

Also on their youtube:

Worth bookmarking the live section on the youtube page. https://www.youtube.com/@skysportsfootball/streams

I think you can see why Bayern was very eager to get Kane. Not much of a threat when they reach Leipzig's box.

With that midfield behind him he will score loads of goals.

RB were impressive and very sharp in fairness.

Enjoyable game.

RBL excellent to watch, but not sure how Bayern didn't manage to score. They created plenty of chances.

Hertha rock bottom after 3 games and are yet to score a goal. Never expected them to be more than a mid table side this season but the squad needs a lot of work in the next 2 weeks if they are to be even that.

The midfield is a bigger concern for me. They need two new midfielders as they've been completely overrun in all 3 of their league games so far. I think as soon as Lukebakio is sold they'll be able to pay the fee for Diego Demme (rumoured), so that's something at least. I don't know what is going on with Serdar and why he's not been playing in the league (played in the Pokal last week) but he looks likely to leave if an offer comes in.

Up front Niederlechner has never been prolific in the Buli but he should chip in with a few goals in this league. The lad they signed from Austria Wien (Tabakovic) has scored over 50 goals over the past 3 seasons in Austria, so he should be decent as well. It's the players behind them that are the main problem imo.

If they can get in 3-4 signings in the positions they desperately need help they shouldn't have any worries about going down, but I don't see the squad becoming anywhere close to good enough to compete at the top either.

Hertha making up for the lack of any goals so far, by scoring 5 today

Not to take anything away from the Hertha performance but Fürth were shocking. Conceding a killer third goal 19 seconds after the restart sums up their day.

Karbownik was great on his debut playing in midfield in the first half. They've had nobody in there capable of carrying the ball forward and splitting the defense open with a pass in previous games.

Think this was mentioned before at some point but worth mentioning again given how bad the YouTube highlights the league posts are. There were 10 goals in the Magdeburg/Hertha game yesterday and they released an awful 74 second video of it.

If you are looking for highlights from the Buli or 2 Buli and have a VPN set it to Germany and you can get full highlight packages on the Sportschau or Sport1 YouTube page. They post all the videos at 11pm on Sunday night.

Sportschau

Sport1

Hertha have finally found someone who enjoys banging in goals. 7 goals in 5 appearances for Tabakovic.

A good win against one of better sides in the division. Starting to move up the table a bit.

But that open goal miss from Scherhant while their keeper was up at the other end was something else.

The new signings have settled well. Especially Tabakovic and Reese. Took some nerve for the latter to take the pen against his former club. Very impressed with him overall.

Bayern dumped out of the Pokal by Saarbrücken. Leipzig also out.

Time to dream.

The decline of Europe's top teams continues.

Now they're saying it's not happening..Nenad Bjelica will be the new coach.

Hertha matches this year have been bizarre. There's been lots of goals and when they've won it has been usually fairly comfortable but they've thrown away a ridiculous number of leads and really they should be higher up the table.

I'm surprised how quickly Union Berlin have collapsed. I thought they'd struggle more this season but not to this extent. They're lucky enough that there's some other very poor teams at the bottom of the Bundesliga this year. Otherwise they'd be cut adrift soon enough.