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Believe it or not, this season's Winter Break was a short one. Most years there is very little
change from January when our lazy German friends finally deign to return from their training camps
in the far east to play some football. But 2010 is a World Cup year and the DFB decreed that the
beach towels would need to be rolled up early and everyone had to be back at work by mid January.
OK so let's start with an apology for not publishing a Bundesbag last week. To be frank, yours
truly is experiencing a radical shifting of his work/life balance lately and simply ran out of
blogging steam. Sorry about that.
Moving on then and probably the biggest news to update you on (apart from the sacking of
Wolfsburg coach
Armin Vey) is that
Hertha Berlin are still unbeaten.
Despite the broo ha-ha surrounding the new TV deal this season it's nice to know that Sky
Deutschland have not wrested complete control over the Bundesliga schedule. Case in point: Schalke
v Bayern Munich. A top of the table clash with a significant points and psychological blow going to
the victor.
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If I'd eventually got round to writing a Bundesbag last week the theme would have been on missed
opportunities after Bayern Munich's defeat at Frankfurt. While the leaders unbeaten run was coming
to a halt, the door was open for Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke to walk through. As it happened they
both declined.
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After Schalke's defeat against Bayern Munich last week, the perfect restorative would have been a
trip to lowly Hannover 96. Indeed, as I pointed out in the Bundesbag Preview, if Felix Magath's
team did could not beat the 96ers then they did not deserve to win the Bundesliga. Well, guess
what? They lost.
(Summary is not available.)
To be honest, it could have been double figures. That's how many chances Bayern Munich had against
Hannover 96 on Saturday. The visitors came to the Allianz looking to limit the damage and their
plan backfired horribly, for them. By the end of the game Bayern were playing liquid football,
using flicks and tricks, not to deliberately embarrass or humiliate their opponents but to stamp
their authority on the Bundesliga.
(Summary is not available.)
On the surface, the Bundesliga title race wide open. However, scratch away at the veneer and in
reality, the latest round of results have only delayed the inevitable.
League leaders Bayern Munich travelled to Borussia Monchengladbach with the Wednesday's Champions
League semi final on their minds.
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Of course, we already knew the fate of the Bundesliga title before coming into the last round.
However, there was the formality of ensuring that the most freakish of results did not take place
before Bayern Munich lifted the trophy at the Olympiastadion, Berlin.
The Bavarians left nothing to chance and dispatched an already relegated Hertha Berlin.
