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A cracking Köln performance was long due as their last convincing win came all the way back in December against relegation zone dwellers, Freiburg. Leverkusen made the trip to Köln following a confident 4-1 victory over Augsburg last week. Right from kick-off, Leverkusen stamped their authority on the game, and a brace from Lars Bender was enough [...]

Bayer Leverkusen have had an inconsistent season, to say the least, but took out their frustrations on FC Augsburg Saturday at the Bay Arena, dominating the second half for a comprehensive 4-1 win that keeps them in line for a Europa League spot.  Following their good effort in their disappointing 3-1 loss Tuesday at home [...]

Barcelona recorded their first away win in the Round of 16 under Guardiola and will take a 3-1 lead back to the Nou Camp for the return leg on March 7th.  Sanchez (41., 55.) and Messi (88.) scored the goals for the visitors with Kadlec’s equalizer (52.) a mere formality in what already looks like [...]

Cris Nyari and Niklas Wildhagen recap the 21st match day of the 11/12 Bundesliga season, and look ahead to the upcoming European action. Segment 1: Why was Skibbe such a poor fit? Is Robin Dutt petty? What to make of Tim Wiese’s goalkeeping? All this, and a whole lot more in the first segment! Segment [...]

Michael Ballack is likely to start on the bench against Werder Bremen this weekend. The question on most Leverkusen fans mind at the moment is, will he ever make the first team again? When Michael Ballack signed for Leverkusen one and a half years ago most Leverkusen fans were overjoyed, claiming that the long-lost son [...]

Adrian Sertl takes you through Leverkusen’s Hinrunde. A 3-0 home defeat at the hands of lowly Nürnberg on the last match day of the 2011-2012 Hinrunde appears to speak volumes about how Bayer Leverkusen’s season has gone thus far.  The loss meant that after 17 matches their record stood at 7-5-5, good for 6th position [...]

Leverkusen are going into the second half of the season with major injury worries. All the while, time is running out to supply the squad with new signings. Leverkusen ended their Hinrunde in 6th place, and on 29 points. That is the worst Hinrunde Leverkusen have played in seven years. New coach Robin Dutt has [...]

The winter break is rolling along, and we’re now less than two weeks until the Ruckrunde kickoff, kicking off with the massive Friday showdown between Borussia Monchengladbach and Bayern Munich on January 20.  Teams are in camp, transfers and injuries occur, and Bayer Leverkusen’s Coach Robin Dutt recently received the club’s dreaded vote of confidence. Transfer News Bundesliga cellar dwellers SC [...]

Hertha Berlin’s Markus Babbel was the next coach in line to get sacked, a couple of others may follow according to reports in the German press. ”Who is lying?” Bild asked when writing about the controversial last few days over at Hertha Berlin. Markus Babbel told German TV channel Sky that he had told sporting [...]

Match day 15 had it all. The top four played each other for the second time in three weeks, Pizarro found out how one can floor a Bayern defender and there were plenty of goals to go along with it. Klaus Allofs might see things through the green and white glasses there, speaking about Pizarro’s [...]