The elite then you have to deliver a you ready for it or you. Pass the ladies on course for the Champions League. Can shall cause slip by by and. Thats a walk in the cleverness fitness push dont slip up. And host time bug. Michigan for a leap up the table. When you get it done do you have what it takes to be among the best take chances dont just talk about. This knowledge man or the fight for a ticket to the Champions League butlins built another wall this time in late accusing. The fight for europe who will fall and who will write its all here kickoff takes a look are you fit for the Champions League. The picturesque that areon town of outsports soon be hosting the luminary lights of barcelona or real madrid. In the friday evening game the away side had the chance to go fifth and were only four points off second place. To be a watershed expectations have been growing recently something weve been discussing a lot. Else work had scored just one goal less than i think the season could they rectify that by actually beating one. Skate in you as you saw last week against frankfurt and every game theres an action and emotion. In the same cant be said about their support though just three hundred made the journey to like tick what if they were playing against. Barcelona and city or real madrid. Dreams aside alex work were given a taste of reality on the seventeenth minute when dale mccann had it in a blocked acrobatic effort by team making use of force and. It was like six one hundred goal in the top flight of the first for the nineteen year old frenchman. And apparently its all thanks to reserve goalie yvonne the vogel who did you much before kickoff event told me outscore so i did it while i was sociable she was. And the two celebrated like theyd just won the league. As i hope is nice night and scores another on snap like a napoli an illustrious name from yesteryear but now mike wise in the Europa League. And out sport man won the respect of the football world last week sammy could hear his brother ranee turn down the chance to play for chinese or. At the world cup im come so pick up. The main reason is that im born and bred in germany i only speak german when both on the Blast Furnace there are players who have worked hard over the last two years to get their country to the world cup. From the slump i wouldnt want to take one of their places away from them when about cyclone impact and that is what you call sportsmanlike conduct. On the pitch on friday however his team mates up front were being a little too generous in the thirty fourth minute a slick exchange of passes found michelle can go fetch through on goal but lacking the cool to finish. At the other end t. Mo verno was his mare curial self although it wasnt to be his day getting close on a few occasions but not close enough. That nabby cage has stepped up for a direct free kick and sealed all the points for a line say albeit thanks to a wicked deflection off martin him just like out leaving the keeper with no chance ive lived since reserve keeper move on go was again the first off the bench to party for the visitors a sobering encounter. A little difficulty but i think today would just blow as good as them. Unlike certain bigger names sides above them all sports seem to at least have the will to win if not the means. Of life like sugar a bit too much for us to handle but to go back in second although this season thats a position nobody seems willing or able to hold onto and perhaps sport can expect to reach the Europa League with opponents like volgograd skandha by a court show xin brooky should know. I. Maybe then thered be enough fans in tow to at least put up a fight for the player. Jersey. Andray sure. Setting out. Is this the twenty fourteen World Cup Final in brazil. In twenty eighteen. With this dynamic combining like their glory days past dortmund return to their past Champions League for. Him to do with our type of players we fought for in won a lot of individual battles and thats really what built the basis for todays women usually causes the fetus to disengage village abuse. Such cases target squad have shown battle and tenacity their undefeated since he joined doormen in december and here they are celebrating and not when. His team is getting results and dortmund are in the thick of the battle for a top four finish. And defeat this week to warrant such celebration why the mighty hamburg was second to last and now have two points in their last and away games. Winning two now at home against hamburg might not be worthy of applause but mark or rices return certainly was the captain is back after an injury lay off of over two hundred fifty days. I was excited to play again and be back in the stadiums in chances on. It wasnt all about the old heroes either new signing mitchie thats why continues to fill get emerick obama yangs oversized shoes picking up his third goal in only his second match with this forty ninth minute tally i dont the must be on their way to europe because im very happy im a striker here to score goals and the most important thing is that we win and go up the table and then into the Champions League you see the new question. Of course years ago making the Champions League wouldnt have been a question great goal great celebration but. Is he seen playing well enough to get the fans flipping out. Not quite this much against hamburg was a good example the result was that the top men still seem to be lacking their own sharpness. They arent showing their usual deadly creativity or the quick combination passing to help make it into time understate the winners and Champions League final list just a few years back. When they did manage to create chances this is how they usually put the no one. And for all of his work to consolidate and stabilize this kind of defending probably wouldnt fly in the Champions League. But at least with a result the fans good laugh it off. As a missing super it was a great play from shola and a great finish from good surface form for. Sure sounds impressed by the games final moments sure last system gets for the First Time Since the twenty fourteen world cup be nice to look at but it came on a counterattack in stoppage time as children desperately clung on to a one nearly. Zero zero zero s. The fifty million euro pair will have to do that a lot more often to left dormant back to their dominant old selves. Our most against arizonas we have to be completely honest we still have a bit to go. In there is it we have to win a few games and can then improve our performances through the boost in confidence. And we have to be patient and so do the fans. How patient will goldman be with their coach they look good on the table but are unconvincing on the pitch needs to get them back to controlling games and attacking if he wants to wear black and yellow next season. And the old days do. And was fighting by and for first now theyre not even guaranteed Champions League they have to pick things up if they want to give fans something to remember. The berlin wall crumble in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine well care to rebuilt it on saturday by or leave because im confident puffed and played a bit of pinball but to no avail. Laver kisan had just thirty five points from twenty one games the worst Second Place Team ever at this point in the season. Coach Michael Heritage feels misunderstood although its not surprising. And we are not his will say were up for second sprogs right lots of off from that i said last week the were not your typical Second Place Team theres the records show that since the introduction of three points for a win theres never been a team in second with so few points and so i think its all really so were not really typical run as up kind of hits like this and a typical runners up and and he doesnt have his sights set on the Champions League or the fans in a bad mood despite it being carnival season. Perhaps a day on the coach would be more comfortable in the underdog role with less pressure. I could leverkusen this recent renaissance just be a result of their own self defense. But why hold back against terror to berlin given their distinctly average goal scoring record. Just before half time flooding here to read up put through Valentino Lazaro has stayed just onside to tuck away his first goal in the bundesliga i told he knew was coming i. Guess it was wasnt it. Was no secret i was looking forward to my first goal plus its my Moms Birthday today and i promised her id score so everythings perfect i dont you just cant let down your mom can you or of course your coach i. Live in prison meanwhile seem to be lacking a bit of orientation. And when someone tell you burst through just after the restart the ivorian striker slotted away to double headers as lead. Jonathan todd the culprit having gifted the ball to color. And as for that sequence of misses later on that takes skill by as did joe pa john polos had her over from point blank range maybe this is why leverkusen get again surrendered second spot for something that theyve been up there two or three times now they had a good mindset and today it didnt work out for the hats mystically up with but you can forgive the young team for sometimes not performing as you might expect this and im talking lies to mish they played a great season so far thank you much and were going to keep on fighting for this long in the north about on. Intentions when a young stein also knows its worth fighting its rarely been this easy to make a top four finish. They stayed focused and showed a lot of discipline of discipline and the scored the right goals at the right morris and this is timing is crucial for the off just before half time and just after. Dinner was practically game over and the foster. Care to maybe in the second half of the table but theyre just six points shy of a Champions League spot at the table is open i thought by in a way is untouchable i think this from the second to this. To the place i think that if not them might differ between the team so i think its open now so everything is jess and we have still. The shot home defeat put it down to leverkusen chances that responded faces spoke volumes. Karajan may not have the most potent Striking Force in the league but that berlin wall is looking impervious so how did the other teams with dreams of europe fare. The Champions League the biggest prize in Club Football even for those who dont win it. And the race to qualify in the bundesliga has never been so tight. With twelve games to go its still very much up for grabs. Frankfurt have the second best away record in the league but going into this game where the fourth worst side is home but the hosts got off to a promising start and have waited concluding a smart move with a tap in after a quarter of an hour a clumsy challenge by makoto has saving early in the second half gave up on a penalty which is the moment to have only converted for the equaliser. Frankfurt responded with a devastating seven minute spell markov was not in home for the second cmon flat grab the third after some shocking set piece defending by cologne. And the celebration kept going. Mommy a small for made up for one moments later with a precise right footed finish. Three goals in eight minutes frankfurt on fire the fish did they were in good shape mentally and physically they had a really good wake you could be left alone managed to. One back thanks to luka shredded cheese fumble. But frankfurt clinched their second home win in a row two years ago facing relegation now the fourth. In thats where hoffenheim finished last season but theyll have to shore up their defense if they want a top four finish playing might have to get they conceded almost eighty goals this season and it isnt hard to see why adam saul i broke the deadlock after twenty six minutes. Just one hundred seconds later m. L. Birdbrain beat oliver bomb onto a free kick to head tony allies a. Few leonardos man was not amused in the second half and great courage bundled him following a goal mile scramble. Before so i grabbed a brace giving the host a two goal lead. The grey narrowed that laid off a Small Company defending involving search gnabry. Hell get over it. And specially escrow marriage then seal the first one is legal win for hoffenheim since mid december when a christie struck long range free kick. Are now braman involved were good just trying to avoid relegation to take out a stinson powered in an early header for his first one just they could go off. Slowly and kinds made it too late in the first half curling a nice effort around kuhn pass steals. The visitors did score paul the half following up on his own penalty minutes. But it remains a consolation goal as kinds made it three one pushing braman three points clear of the bottom three. And thirteen points away from those Champions League spots. Well Stranger Things have happened. Look out even how neither is in contention for the Champions League after the pitch was replaced and laid out to resemble floorboards of a manage to score again. Thanks to. That makes for a fun football determination and. Feelings klaus. Playing like that makes giving off the goal ok too. And believe it or not the promotions are only five points off a Champions League spot. And then theres lovable. But it looks like theyre out of the Champions League. Theyve got larche. They can dominate games but playing without passion. Relegation candidates came by and showed them how its done daniel can check finishes a nice team play with power and enthusiasm for. The first home win for their new coach. Gloves off have lost four of their five matches this year they seem a bit unsettled and Champions League not likely. By and went into the weekend with an eighteen point cushion leaving potential rivals in the shadows and of course they were unbeaten at a holiday season. That challenges mashallah have been beaten by and hung all white since twenty ten. Insisted it was coming to munich just to make up the numbers. Refund if you were out to get three points otherwise you could have stayed in bed. And shout very a while. In the opening exchanges. The break forward in the second minutes all laong gorecki set up raylan bolo who forced some lets say from spain all right game on. Where they played very aggressive and. Has a very high tempo you know its more like a like an english game you know from one go to not to another but soon by unsettled and started to take control of proceedings after a nicely worked me forward shank a keeper rough then and could only carry a pile driver from Thomas Mueller even rather live under skeets its happened and make it one nil. Its in the polish strike its a twenty six goals you know competitions and thats not all liver scored in every home game the season eleven home games in a row there was only one man before who did this was it. It was cheap i think is really good. But it was paid to hammer on rather than high class watching from the sidelines forty five years after he set the record and his missed a game three six just. Chuck said dominica to disguise his team and he seemed remarkably nonchalant about the opening goal during and after the match who scored the first the first goal of those lewandowski his team likewise seemed anything but ruffles in one of the series of benches forwards and ball across from the left a message bicycle kick by lay on korecki landed conveniently for franco does some time. And the visitors have a deserved equaliser with twenty nine minutes play. My good unfancied shall pull off a shot and take home a point. Or even three. I think we will show that we are able to get a really human so we want to try to do the same in the next. It was an adventurous at times i was dayshift display from shall you never looked like surrendering. But perhaps the cheekiest moment came courtesy of miller. As he latched on to a past from robin he looked up to find and see mites in the books. But instead shot straight past royal family who had left far too much spice at his near post. Again no cause for alarm for the desk on the touchline and his team julie kept their heads. Gorecki it was impressive here wriggling away from a tackle need to drag his shirt wide. His performance was typical of shockers resilient performance in the stadium hell soon call. It was unusual in the build up to the game people can understand that but once the game kicked off you just want to perform and enjoy yourself and i think i managed that. By an unused itself opposition in the league which someone as competitive as miller revels in. Even if gorecki could be challenging him for his place come august. Shall his game plan worked fine as such except for the result. In a match when was to play with courage to play for which means we had three strikers so. We wanted to play football into two to have a good position even here and i think that we create a lot of four chances due to the position. Only a couple of points away from fourth and Champions League qualification they finished twenty seventeen in second and only showing can still challenge for the runners up spot. But while the also rans fight it out right away lead is by and looks set for a record extending six consecutive this league it sounds like. Who wants to hold on to say. Place life there when Alex Ferguson certainly start early because it after their loss to hear frankfurt looks like a hot favorite and the win against cologne was their tenth of the season behind only byron and equal to dortmund who also won this week. Before we head to the table lets take another look at mitchy thats why hes fantastic flip. You celebrated the go with a flip which you had planned didnt say anything about that so theres always the danger that you could hurt yourself like this was it for lets. He didnt say anything about it. Sure he did it with great sustain for both the goal and the celebration. Trim issues for me they were both unbelievable and