A look back at the first half of the season opens highs and lows the best solo runs and the best saves. The bundesliga as new faces. And the biggest moments. Lets start off with tabletop a spy in munich. Good. Bye and take a healthy lead into the break but only thanks to an incredible comeback. This its crazy this is going to be a first turbulance touchline turnovers and some fabulous football from and its an outstanding achievement. From top to flop by ins rather because the season so far. At the start of the season it was business as usual when she looked he signed the dont win the super cup and won their first two bunder sligo outings. Its a basic School System but. The first crack appeared on match day three with a two male defeat at hoffenheim not at all to the record champions text. Stuff we cant let it throw us but its a warning shot. But things got worse keep in mind well neuer was struck by a recurring foot injury that sidelined him for the rest of the year a serious blow to an already unsettled team against squandered a two nil lead for the first time in six years the pressure was mounting. Was played by the banal. Theres a story at the end of september by and were beaten three nil by parry sound in the champions league. It would be hampshire lotties last game in charge. And some not control we got together after the game and talked about where it should go from here the first decision was to part with Carlo Ancelotti as that left the question of who would succeed him and the list wasnt really long for go and the mysteries as money calls. The surprise solution youll find just sprung out of retirement for his off to lead by into the treble and as focused as ever about the task at hand. This is my job is to put together a team who played as a proper collective again and who are always working towards a specific target at the moment its all about turning things around the moment even though its. His first task catch up with the rivals. Vias lee dortmund are already five points clear just seven games into the season. And the way theyre playing at the moment it will be very hard. To knock them off the top. Of your pie case backing out of his binds head coach with high gas at the helm by immediately got back to winning ways he started his full stint in charge with eight straight wins in all competitions including two in the league against rivals like sick and dortmund. Look at the top space walks around the pool for. The powers of one thing i think is very important is that he knows the club he knows how things function here. And thats exactly what we need at the moment. Probably moment just as results improved on the high because so did the players commissions on six assists a midseason personal best. Time Kingsley Komal stepped out of robins shadow last provider and score the rebound is it from getting sick of the. Noise deputy spent all of the ice bounced back from the old early blunder hes kept six clean sheets more than any other key for the season. Yet next hes playing better and better with ever more confidence. And hes giving notice at the back now which is just what we want to sign. Up top. He is in great form even by his own prolific standards fifteen goals in seventeen games his best ever hold in the first half of the campaign. From a bicycle he scored thirty in each of the past two seasons thats an incredible strike rate and now hes already on fifteen years and were just glad he plays for biron. Now sam wagner has joined from hoffenheim. The form of buying youth player returns to add even more firepower to the front line buy in are eleven points clear at the top and the competition face a mighty challenge to try and knock them off their accustomed perch dont mean to. Certainly struggled to keep pace. With the book. Dont mean start to the season was well and simply sensational the black and yellow some apology looks set to run on and on as that dazzling displays left everyone else in the bundesliga behind. Oh that exact memory. But then came and everything turned cold and grey as the leaves began to full stop to tumble the first half of this bundesliga season has been a real roller coaster ride. Ive spoken oldest peter boss took has been listening a bow as head coach of the. First game in a new club is always special first game will fulfil the championship is also special so today was a special day his players made sure of that. Lasix still have a day just. To strike first. The most series of. The three male wins to start off and so it continued over those near perfect weeks. One draw and six wins in the league in august and september just two goals conceded. And there was good news on the personnel from top to months on the sidelines mario get so was fifty again im back on form. And i finished obviously im on a bit of a high off the being out so long alls well if its an exciting time i think weve got massive potential almost. As demonstrated in the five nil drubbing of cologne summer signing next to me and. Phillips scored his first and Second League goals for the club. Also sent packing to the chain of six one as pm. Back to hattrick he was scoring it will. Take. To get the business as the season. And to morrow is the. Thats a good gift i think that. Into october and a home game against like. A football feast for the fans which ended in defeat for the. Unlikely as it seemed it was the start of an eight game winless streak in the league. I didnt like. The way we played was not good enough we played too much back in the forwards they pressed us a me a taste of things to come over the following weeks. Moated im still got. Beaten at home bye bye and. Then a four nil lead squandered in the davi against. By early december it was game over for peter bosch on match day fifteen. His successor was peter fresh from being released by cologne first up for him a trip to minds. Eye shaped like six. That he did just to get the big smile on his face. Then Payne Stewart his home debut against hoffenheim an encounter with a dramatic finale. For. Christian. Capping off his own remarkable football year in style hes just one of the leagues many rising stars. Such. As. The eat candy. And the. Five fresh faces for germanys top flight in the fast lane to going to sleep to stop. That gem of a striker wearing the diamond crest of hamburg. Just feet up the new rising star and back some of. The top joined hamburg as a ten year old when he was some down against braman on match day seven of the seventeen year old forward became the first bundesliga player born in the twenty first century. In his second appearance off the bench he scored his first goal. Im im a. Piece of stuff hes five minutes to go. Hes added another one since and hamburg anticipate many more to come from the new scoring prodigy fita up. His enthusiasm is infectious western mckenney. International the nineteen year old midfielder joined a Youth Academy from f. C. Dallas in twenty sixteen now the tough tackling action dynamo has started nine matchups. Westen mckenney already shelled his hardest working player and hes only getting started. Now to mckinneys royal blue buddy i mean hes. The twenty year old Morocco International arrive from french side in the summer and go straight down to business as provider and executioner. But. He has big plans with shall go. Western mckenney and i mean a return to breakthrough stuff doing their best in shall his remarkable renaissance. Hes lightning fast and the finish. To stop the lights and snap them up from p. S. G. And the twenty year old striker has chipped in with three goals and a couple of assists quite a start but is aiming much higher. You know. Why shouldnt i be a top scorer some day this season i want to end up in the top five at least ill be on the go that would be pretty good in the bundesliga and that he ended up on life a man with a plan. Is a perfect fit for light six high octane style. He scored one of the goals of the season so far. The spectacular sees. His overhead kick against took up put him in the spotlight sign from dutch side who thanks to the twenty three year old French Center forward has hit the ground running at frank. Six goals two assists hes been on traps go to guy up front. Mckenney i meet and. Find exciting new names lighting up the bundesliga stage this season lets take a closer look at the best place so far. With the. Explosive runs high octane breakaways. Stupendous saves brilliant bundesliga moments from the opening half of the season replayed under the microscope lets take a look. Shall kicked off the season with a deadly counterattack covering most of the pitch in just ten seconds and that against counterattack specialists leipsic. By the end time the young frenchman. Coming up. Fighting the second shut. The fuck up the time. During helpless. Match day six thrash mentioned back with pm eric obama young in overdrive. Side after patrick the come close second to no. Monster to finish. On match day ten out spoke hit braman with a textbook break away from deep inside their own half eleven seconds from start to finish. He comes time its three three if they play this right. Its true for greg every shot. It is. Pretty good at about the close love sport. Likes to play fast and team obana well he plays very fast and is a good way to go but you can suck on. The. Power of the finals the way to defend this is just to keep pace with this is a Close Encounter attacking team of the. Panthers kinky hair a huge she left the boy in defense dazed and confused. As to how to do it she. Still. Thinks shes going to. Check on. The zohan good to. Do to try to steal the finish but to walk. Like sick again this time its bruma tearing down the left flank and told them. To go spades again still yet to see how. Much to like so they done to likely execute. Looks exactly like the deal. With my space. Is rather a guess the shots the goalkeeper the last line of defense shock israel famine kept out a stunner against buying. Favor with the fox a. Strong hand their routines calculates. Kind of a spill of shallow made up for a mistake with remarkable reflexes against like sing. Song. Just stopping some. Kind of. Shot that deep cut brings out the finest on the ticket would not. Bring this war to end no way through spokes cohen cast deals at full stretch of the world one. That was a couple of fingers on knock it out. Super saves cracking counterattacks sublime solos brilliance born to sleep. Full of stuff. Lets not forget. The. Contacts only saw. The new stars of the bundesliga. They arrived in the summer to Great Expectations and so they lived up to the hype. Twenty three year old defensive midfielder colin tantalus so is set to play a key role of vying for years to come. Signed from the all he landed in munich with the extra baggage of being the most expensive signing in bundesliga history. Im here to play football and to try and develop further as a footballer. Every game that i play ill do all i can to show that by and made the right decision investing so much money in me. So certainly looks the part he has the passing range of vision and intelligence to control the game and he can score. Slowly so might see what. A real team player already a vital cog in the buy a machine. Kevin prince boateng is a natural leader and a fighter but theres more to his game than that hes back in the league where he started out over a decade ago the thirty year old midfielder who has always been one of a kind and if people call you crazy you can see it as a positive crazy is negative one. Thing certainly has his positives like his awareness his tenacity and his finish. Kevin prince but say thats just smashed it from roughly twenty five metres out goodness me thats outstanding. But saying back in the bundesliga. I welcome you addition is Thomas Rodriguez trading madrid for munich and the colombian superstar has been busily beguiling teammates and fans alike with his silky skills. This was matched a five that shall come as in space he gets the ball holds off to marcus at close quarters and then come just up a moment of football magic. Happens and plunders brilliantly. I always want to help the team as it is if i scoring goals all the better but im not playing the manas well. His touch and vision are a delight for all football fans. And hes always good for a go. His first book to sleep good goals in his first book his need to start that is what has arrived in the job until five. Three top stars enriching the bundesliga this season now lets take a look back at the best moments. So far. The bundesliga season has already offered up some memorable moments moments to savor again. Sublime technique share a virtual city slipping past your marker with a deft touch amidst all the match day hustle and bustle sometimes football is raised to the form of. Plates but sometimes up. To coffee. And some way to. Get. Finished it is a five star performance from. The bundesliga wouldnt be the same without them the bull artists the tricksters the men with the magic touch. Not everything comes off though sometimes the magic doesnt happen but occasionally it backfires so spectacularly that football turns into comedy. Back up this after obama you know absolute top of the cross spot. Although as he got schooled. Which side is he on here cravens thomas still a need loses his bearings ever so slightly. Mine schipa robin sent the struggle to see the funny side of this one. Mug shot but most of all mine are not laughing at him sorry they just could not sustain a full season five test this is absolutely bottomless. But he did at least get away with it in the end. Mark boucher a conduit up a goosebumps moment on match day one with this. Sensational strike by the clock struck and you can see what it means to him the name of fossilised not in the aftermath of the attacks this week dedicates they go to his compatriots. Emotions of a different sort in cologne as the fans bid a fond farewell to their popular head coach peter stone some of his players look emotional out there at the moment but they still gas a special relationship with them and hes an iconic figure in the ice and to support his. Combo extended stick my away to one hundred and ninety seven games for this moment a bundesliga goal the last or so we thought dick must alight was short lived the linesman the flag for offside the weight goes on and on every mention all the same for the one that got away. Talk about finishing with a flourish the final bundesliga match day of the year served up one late twist after another. To ask joins. Us to. Talk. To. Regular people such as well simon said. That he stopped seeing stuff he saw a. Child sholay from the ice in the sky and by devices on. The system. And some additional time. Shock drug alcohol except the from what sam will come from at the outrage the laughs week well there was also time for an uncharacteristic botched joke from p. S. Emerick obama yeah even the so the funny with the rails spills and drama to the end and its only half time for the bundesliga with someone. With the facts. Why do elephants need this. How does a plastic model turn into a paving stone why do algae make it clear. Good idea can work anywhere and there are people developing Smart Solutions everywhere. Lets inspire each other in the environment magazine to go at africa thirty minutes on t w. He tells us storing stories. It makes us laugh. And cry legs tremble and smile. Magical images and emotions that none of us. Know the magazine every weekend on d w. D w look at me speak your language so that the best. For content in dari pashto and or prospects for returning to our web special the refugee journeys of life in germany and the prospects for those returning home. 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