This week fixture

Saturday

SV Werder Bremen : VfL Wolfsburg     
FSV Mainz 05 : Hamburger SV     
FC Nuremberg : 1899 Hoffenheim     
FC Köln : SC Freiburg     
FC Augsburg : M'gladbach       
Hannover 96 : Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Sunday
   
Borussia Dortmund : 1. FC Kaiserslautern     
VfB Stuttgart : FC Bayern Munich

Bremen vs Wolfsburg should be good

This week fixture

Saturday

SV Werder Bremen 4:1  VfL Wolfsburg     
FSV Mainz 05 0:0 Hamburger SV     
FC Nuremberg 0:2 1899 Hoffenheim     
FC Köln 4:0 SC Freiburg     
FC Augsburg 1:0 M'gladbach       
Hannover 96 0:0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Sunday
   
Borussia Dortmund : 1. FC Kaiserslautern     
VfB Stuttgart : FC Bayern Munich

Bremen vs Wolfsburg should be good

Yesterday went for Bayern Munich & Schalke 04 training. both using field next to each other, Schalke started first around 9AM and completed around 10.30AM, then I move forward for Bayern Munich training from 11AM-1PM. Only around 20-30 crowd for Schalke but 100-150 for Bayern that day. Kudos to Bayern for pausing to make way for azan semayang jumaat.



There is no Raul signature since I notice him hiding in middle of buggy avoiding crowd. But I am satisfied to see a living soccer legend 50m next to me like I see Alex Del Piero in Olimpico & Zidane at Khalifah Stadium.

As for Bayern....hahaha this one a lot...because I went stalking them for 4 consecutive day training to complete my autograph quest. Will share some training picture later...tonight go stadium watch Bayern Munich vs Al-Ahly!

Nice... looking for ur censor picture with Usami. 

Mönchengladbach - Borussia Mönchengladbach got themselves off to a perfect start in 2012 with as they executed their gameplan to perfection to claim a fully deserved victory over league leaders FC Bayern Munich that sees them move within a point of top spot in the Bundesliga.


Bastian Schweinsteiger's long-awaited comeback and Marco Reus's home crowd reception played second fiddle to a phenomenal performance from Lucien Favre's charges. Reus opened the scoring early on after a glaring error by Manuel Neuer before Patrick Herrmann stole the limelight with two goals of his own to put the hosts comfortably ahead. Schweinsteiger did grab a consolation goal for Bayern late on, but in the end an out of sorts Bayern were made to pay by a ruthless Gladbach.

Manuel mishap gifts Gladbach the lead

Just like Phillip Lahm had requested FC Bayern set out their stall early on, controlling possession, while the hosts were left to pick out their opportunities in transition. There were a few rusty passes in the opening exchanges as the sides shook off the winter break cobwebs and one such pass brought about the opening goal just after the ten minute mark.

Holger Badstuber played the ball to Neuer who took a touch to go wide under pressure from Mike Hanke before scuffing his clearance straight to Reus. Gladbach's top goal scorer showed great composure to react to the opportunity before volleying the ball into the empty net from 35 yards with Bayern's keeper in no man's land. Bayern sought an immediate response as Mario Gomez ghosted in between Gladbach's centre-backs to meet Arjen Robben's cross, but could only force a good save out of Marc-Andre ter Stegen with his headed effort.

Bayern out of sorts

The visitors were struggling to get in behind Borussia's packed out backline who were making life as difficult as possible for the record title holders. There were a few moments of desperate defending from Lucien Favre's side, but they were doing well to prevent Bayern from creating clear cut chances despite the end-to-end nature of the game. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk and Bastian Schweinsteiger both drew routine saves out of ter Stegen from range, but it was the hosts who struck again just before half-time.

Arjen Robben gave the ball away on the wing before watching on as the Foals promptly netted their second of the evening. Hanke released Herrmann in behind who dropped a shoulder before placing an effort beyond the onrushing Neuer and into the far corner. Hanke fizzed an shot just wide of goal, but the home side will have been the happier of the two teams going in at the break having limited the league leaders throughout the first half.

Defences on top

Gladbach continued to seek out their chances on the break and had Reus found a more accurate pass to play in the wide open Juan Arango the hosts may have been celebrating an early third. Instead his cross-field ball rolled harmlessly to Neuer, but it was a early warning sign for Bayern that Borussia weren't content with a two-goal lead.

While both teams maintained a similar pace in the second half goal scoring opportunities were few and far between as the league's two meanest defences came out on top in the early stages of the second half. Bayern were putting together some dangerous moves, but were often lacking the final pass. Roel Brouwers was forced into making a well timed last-ditch block on a Lahm volley inside the box, but Gladbach were still looking to add to the score line and with 20 minutes remaining the Foals were able to enjoy the security of a third goal.

Comeback kid rains in on the parade

A clinical counter saw Reus hold up the ball before timing his pass to perfection to play in Herrmann who had the presence of mind to take the ball around Neuer before sliding the ball across the line for his second of the match. Bayern were getting more and more frustrated with every passing minute having struggled to breakdown their opponents though they did pull a goal back soon after courtesy of some uncharacteristically sloppy defending by Gladbach.

Robben's corner wasn't dealt with as the players played pinball inside the box and though Badstuber couldn't get his shot off the comeback kid himself Schweinsteiger finally got FC Bayern on the score sheet as he leathered the ball into the roof of the net from six yards out. Jupp Heynckes' men pumped the ball into the box during the later stages of the match as Mario Gomez and Thomas Müller went close to finding a second, but in the end Gladbach's resolute defending and never say die attitude handed them a deserved win over the record title holders.

holy f**k. raul scored amazing volley 2nd goal  like zidane supergoal cl final 10 years ago today.

watched the match..wayy batter than the epl games that were on and thoroughly enjoyed it..

Arjen Robben wont be sleeping well tonite

The Dortmund - Munich game was fierce.. what an awesome game.

Guess i still have spare time to grant you request before leaving for stadium,

I get his autograph on the second day evening training, while the training picture is on 4th day.


Getting picture with Usami


Usami autograph


Usami is training

more picture coming up...sorry for censored,
my purpose is to share picture of stuff discussed in this thread, not share picture of me.