La 21° giornata di Bundesliga parte stasera, ore 20.45, con l'anticipo serale fra Wolfsburg e Friburgo. Dopo il pareggio, senza reti, contro il Borussia Mönchengladbach, gli uomini di Magath cercano insistentemente punti per alimentare le proprie speranze di entrare fra le prime otto, e quindi tra coloro che aspirano a partecipare all'europa del prossimo anno.

German Bundesliga Match Predictions 10 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are predictions for all the Bundesliga matches on February 10, 2012. Times listed are GMT or local UK time.

German Bundesliga Match Predictions

Friday, 10 February 2012

Wolfsburg v Freiburg, 19:30 Wolfsburg wins 2-0

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German Bundesliga Match Predictions 10 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

In the modern game of football, 600,000 Euros is an extremely insignificant price to pay for a player. It is a low risk, high reward situation for the club. If the player ends up as a failure then the loss was very minimal. However if the player goes on to be a success, than it looks like a genius move.

Rich made a comment in my previous post that got me thinking, "just how hard was our first half?"

Well, unfortunately, soccer is a bit behind on the sabermetrics such as SOS and RPI and Power Rankings or other crazy mathematic formulas/systems that determine, well, everything.

What we can figure out is our points haul from one half of the season to the other.

Kickoff from White Hart Lane at 7:00PM GMT/2:00PM EST

Liverpool's youngsters return to NextGen Series action today, with their quarterfinal matchup with Tottenham's U19s taking place in London. The brief break in senior squad action allows for attentions to turn to a competition that, on the whole, has been a terrific advertisement for youth football on the continent.

By Chris Wright

'Twas a bit of a slow one yesterday as anyone who spent 11-and-a-bit hours 'glued' to the live feed will tell you, with the total spending across the English leagues failing to surpass the £50 million that Chelsea spaffed on Fernando Torres this time last year let alone the ludicrous £225 million that was spent in total in January of 2011.

Liverpool and Queens Park Rangers have been alerted to the availability of former Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb, with Barcelona ready to make the out-of-favour Belarusian a free agent, after talks over cancelling his contract.
The move comes two weeks after Hleb returned to Barcelona following a failed loan spell with Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg, who had asked to terminate his season-long agreement six months early, after the 30-year-old struggled with form and fitness, making just four appearances this term.

Former Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder Alexander Hleb will be without a team at the end of the year after his current club Wolfsburg revealed that they will not be renewing his contract when it ends later on this month.

Hleb who struggled to assert himself in the Barcelona line up was eventually loaned out to Bundesliga club Wolfsburg in August on a short term switch that was meant to improve his fitness and form after an injury prone post Arsenal career.

Genk vs Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Highlights Champions League 2011 Video Goals Vossen Derdiyok is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Genk vs Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Highlights Champions League 2011 Video Goals Vossen Derdiyok is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Genk vs Bayer Leverkusen 2011 ( Genk Leverkusen video below) Score and result:- Genk vs Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 (Jelle Vossen/ Eren Derdiyok) 6 December, 2011- Champions League- Match Day 6- Cristal [.

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Editor's note: At the end of the 2010 season, we posted a series of "Raves" about our favorite Philadelphia players. They need not be the team's best players, but they're guys and gals we like. Over the next two weeks, we continue the series again with some of the PSP writers' and contributors' favorite players of 2011.

There are ways to make life easier for referees. This weekend was dominated by a lot of talk about the difficult and ungrateful job a referee has to make. There has been a lot of talk about pressure. None of that talk might actually help Babak Rafati, as it's mere speculation, why he attempted suicide.

Kickoff from Alvalade Stadium at 8:00PM GMT/3:00PM EST

If you're looking for Suarez-FA discussion, scroll down. Otherwise, the football.

Ways to Watch:

Match shown live on LFCTV, LFC.tv for eSeason subscribers, and the NextGen Series official site.

By Chris Wright

Spotted (you'd be hard-pressed to miss it) in the Sudtribune Stand at the Westfalenstadion last weekend, Borussia Dortmund fans put on quite a show with a colossal 'skull' tifo display ahead of their game against Wolfsburg here's the video, along with a brief 'Making Of' segment.

Il Bayern oltre ad essere forte, in questa giornata si è confermato battagliero ed ostico. Nella tana di Augsburg va a vincere e a custodire il successo con fermezza. Ecco il piglio dei campioni, forti e determinati. Reti di Gomez e Ribery ma grande prova di tutta la squadra bavarese. In seconda piazza si rivede [.

Those were 150.000 Euros not well spent for Wolfsburg. Felix Magath loaned Aliaksandr Hleb from Barcelona for a special €100k per game and €50k per goal fee. Thus, Magath's total expenses for Saturday's trip to Dortmund added up to €150k, not counting the damage Dortmund's fresh in form offense caused all afternoon.

Rodolfo Borrell has set his sights on a first Barclays Premier Reserve League North victory of the season as his Liverpool youngsters prepare to host big-spending Chelsea on Wednesday afternoon.
The Reds' second-string have played just two domestic games so far this term due to their involvement in the NextGen Series tournament.

Although the game ended 1-1 it was a very disputed match. After a quickfire goal by Wolfsburg in the 65th second through Mandzukic, the wolves retreated and Hamburg pushed forward in a good fashion and the goal could not be very far. Petric equalized in the 56 minute and Hamburg seemed ready to push even harder and get the win, but that didn't happen as they seemed out of fuel.

Heiko Westermann - Hamburgs captain
Today I'm going to see a match from the Bundesliga between Hamburger SV and Wolfsburg.
Hamburg is the only team that always played in the Bundesliga from its foundation in 1963, thus earning the nickname "The Dinosaurs". Unfortunately for them, they currently are in the last place.

NextGen Series update

Liverpool Reserves' NextGen Series hopes are in their own hands following a goalless draw between Wolfsburg and Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday night.

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Striker links with Spurs continue to dominate the transfer columns and the latest player to have his name mentioned in connection with a move to the Lane is a Swiss centre forward who is currently making a name for himself in the Bundesliga.

Eren Derdiyok is 23 years old and plays for Bayer Leverkusen, having joined from FC Basle in 2009.

I remember so very well where I was when Steve McClaren was stood stony-faced beneath an umbrella in the pouring rain as England surrendered their opportunity to feature at Euro 2008. I was in a pub in Holloway in North London, and the patrons of the establishment had come together under a cloud of false hope.

Video- Eren Derdiyok goal vs Wolfsburg 2011 Bayer Leverkusen Derdiyok bicycle kick is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Video- Eren Derdiyok goal vs Wolfsburg 2011 Bayer Leverkusen Derdiyok bicycle kick is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter We all know how difficult overhead kicks are to execute and Eren Derdiyok has put himself into the race for the best goal of the 2011/2012 season with an absolutely amazing goal [.

Clive Brunskill/Getty Images(Bleacher Report) Uruguayan International and former Nacional center back Sebastian Coates is ever so close to completing a £7 million move to Liverpool. His presence in the Anfield stands on Saturday confirm that the deal looks a complete lock.
He has sighted conversations with his national team teammate, Luis Suarez, that the Reds playmaker's opinion of the club made it nearly impossible to resist.

I don't often watch the Bundesliga, and I rarely watch Bayer Leverkusen. Yet Eren Derdiyok's bicycle kick might be enough to turn me around, and make me into a Bundesliga fan.
Bayer Leverkusen were hosting Wolfsburg at home and drawing 1-1 after having taken the lead. In the 65th minute Derdiyok decided he wasn't interested in a draw, and so he performed a stunning bicycle kick winner.

I don't often watch the Bundesliga, and I rarely watch Bayer Leverkusen. Yet Eren Derdiyok's bicycle kick might be enough to turn me around, and make me into a Bundesliga fan.
Bayer Leverkusen were hosting Wolfsburg at home and drawing 1-1 after having taken the lead. In the 65th minute Derdiyok decided he wasn't interested in a draw, and so he performed a stunning bicycle kick winner.

Probably the prettiest goal of the weekend took place in Bundesliga on Saturday when Eren Derdiyok scored the game winner for Leverkusen over Wolfsburg with the beautiful bicycle kick depicted in the video below. The 23 year old Swiss national's goal proved to be the game winner, giving Leverkusen a 2-1 lead in the middle of the second half.

Probably the prettiest goal of the weekend took place in Bundesliga on Saturday when Eren Derdiyok scored the game winner for Leverkusen over Wolfsburg with the beautiful bicycle kick depicted in the video below. The 23 year old Swiss national's goal proved to be the game winner, giving Leverkusen a 2-1 lead in the middle of the second half.

Eren Derdiyok scored a simply sublime goal this past weekend for Bayer Leverkusen against Wolfsburg. It was the type of goal that you'll have to watch more than once to marvel at what the Swiss striker of Kurdish descent actually did.

It's a simply spectacular goal and a great advertisement for the Bundesliga.

Kickoff from Anfield at 7:00PM BST/2:00PM EST

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Liverpool:

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With only two matches left in NextGen Series group play, Liverpool find themselves vying for the second qualifying spot with Molde and Wolfsburg in Group 2.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is adamant Carlos Tevez will never play for Manchester City again after the striker apparently refused to play in last night's 2-0 Champions League defeat against Bayern Munich.

Tevez was named as a substitute for the game at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday but appeared to not want to come on when asked to in the second half, something the wantaway forward has denied.

In our latest column from the club's Academy, Frank McParland offers his thoughts on the NextGen Series so far and reveals which two Reds legends have visited Kirkby recently.
It's been a frustrating couple of weeks for us with regards to the NextGen Series double header against Wolfsburg.
I felt we played poorly in the first game at Anfield and were somewhat fortunate to get a point thanks to a late own goal.

Liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the NextGen Series knockout stage have suffered a blow following a 2-0 defeat in Wolfsburg on Wednesday night.
Two goals inside the opening 10 minutes of the second half did the damage as the Germans picked up the victory that saw them join the Reds on four points and move into joint-second place in Group 2.

Paul Kennedy of Soccer America reports that US national team right back is apparently leaning towards playing for Germany.
It was a bad news day on the national team front out of Germany. Former U.S. national team defender Tony Sanneh tweeted that German national team coach Joachim Loew was going to FC Nuremberg -- Sanneh's former club -- to meet with U.

Photos: Late drama for Reds

Liverpool needed a late own goal to snatch a 1-1 draw against Wolfsburg on Wednesday night and our photographer was there to capture the best of the action.

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Borrell's Wolfsburg relief

Rodolfo Borrell admitted to feeling a sense of relief after seeing his side come from behind to salvage a late draw against Wolfsburg.

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What are the odds United don't concede once on their group stage travels? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Manchester United have played nine away matches in the Champions League group stages over the last three years and conceded just two goals. That gives you an idea of how Fergie sets up his team in early away matches, and how p**s-easy United's groups have been.

Arsenal visit Dortmund, the self-professed football capital of the world, to open a Champions League group phase that promises to be the toughest one in recent years. BVB are by far the best team from the fourth pot and could quite possible provide a sterner challenge than the other two teams in the group.

Watch starlets live on Wednesday

Liverpool's promising youngsters take on Wolfsburg at Anfield on Wednesday night in the NextGen Series and you can watch the game live and exclusive only on LFC TV and LFC TV Online.

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Im Jahr 2007 ist Klaus Augenthaler als Trainer beim VfL Wolfsburg engagiert. Dort hat er es nicht gerade leicht mit der Presse und beschließt zwar keinen Presseboykott, aber zumindest ein Frageboykott. Und so stellt er sich selbst die Fragen und gibt gleich die Antworten darauf. Eigentlich gut für alle, denn nach 42 Sekunden ist alles [.

Barcelona have confirmed that former Arsenal winger Alexander Hleb will spend yet another season away from the Catalan club as he is being loaned out to German outfit VfL Wolfsburg.

Belarus international Hleb rose to prominence during an impressive three-year spell during which he made 129 appearances and netted on 10 occasions in all competitions.