Bundesliga Fanatic

It has been over seven hours of football since Eintracht Frankfurt scored a goal, not since Srdjan Lakić scored in the 36th minute in the 0-2 win at the Imtech Arena against HSV a month ago. Today Eintracht showed a bit more threat in front of goal with the return of Takashi Inui from suspension [...]

Mixed in between the DFB Pokal headlines and hoopla over the past two days was the news that Borussia Mönchengladbach will not renew striker Mike Hanke’s contract. Signalling the end of Hanke’s days at the club and an awkward final few months for the striker who will now be demoted to hoping for the odd [...]

You cannot have any Gladbach-related conversation without mentioning Marco Reus, Dante, or Roman Neustädter. The beginning of last season was a euphoric experience for Gladbach. The team that survived certain doom the year before continued its great form under Favre and finished in a Champions League spot. It was special. When Marco Reus returned from [...]

After reaching the dizzying heights of the Champions League last season, Gladbach started their Bundesliga campaign in nervy fashion this year, accruing just one win in their opening six Bundesliga games. Despite the bad start however Gladbach lie 8th in the Bundesliga going into the winter break level on points with Stuttgart and Schalke and [...]

Many people who don’t watch the Bundesliga always ask the same question: why do you watch the Bundesliga when you could watch the great football played in La Liga or the exciting football of the Premier League? Of course, it’s a matter of tastes. Yes, perhaps the players in the Bundesliga aren’t as technical and [...]

Borussia Mönchengladbach haven’t won an away match in Gelsenkirchen since Udo Lattek coached Schalke in 1992. Today’s wasteful performance by the Royal Blues almost changed that. Schalke were going into this match only having won one of their last five matches in the Bundesliga. Out of the last ten matches between the two sides 9 of [...]

The fun and attack minded Werder has returned after a week of media controversy. Werder’s loss against Augsburg didn’t sit well with sporting director Klaus Allofs, who immediately after the final whistle demanded that the players in the green and white jerseys had to step their game up. The team’s poor start into the season, [...]

Despite their latest 2-0 victory over surprise package Eintracht Frankfurt, there is no denying that the season so far has been a disappointment for Gladbach fans. The disappointment of losing their best players in the summer was confounded by the prospect, and eventual failure to, participate in the Champions League and an underwhelming start to [...]

Borussia Mönchengladbach nearly pulled off the impossible and nearly came from behind in Kyiv to advance to the group stage of the Champions League. Alas, their 2-1 win in the Ukraine was not enough after losing 3-1 in the first leg and will have to find consolation in the Europa League.  Despite an admirable comeback [...]

In the space of fifteen short months, Borussia Mönchengladbach went from being almost guaranteed relegation from the Bundesliga to the Champions League qualifying rounds. In that time, coach Lucien Favre created possibly the best defence in the league out of the worst one, nurtured one of German football’s brightest prospects, Marco Reus, and built an [...]