Matchday 21- Bayer 04 v VfL Bochum: Touch football
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Is it our youth? Do we glow with cherubic radiance and so you found us irresistible? Did we woo you with our Herculean fitness, all rippling hunka-manmeat clad in glorious black and red; a perfect blend of square-jawed Teutons, Latin romance and the mystery of distant, sand swept lands rolling under a brooding sun? Or was it veneration? That, like the faithful clamouring to touch of the raiment of some patron saint, you needed to know if our Greater Power could be passed to you through us. Read the rest of this entry »
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Matchday 20- Bayer 04 v SC Freiburg: Chance of flurries
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In football, every streak comes to an end.
-SC Freiburg Coach Robin Dutt, ahead of today’s match at BayArena
To Dutt’s credit, it takes a solid pair to stand up in front of reporters, squad hugging the bottom of the table, headed into battle with the league leaders, and make such a bold implication. No doubt Dutt wasn’t suggesting it was Leverkusen’s time to lose so much as he was trying to convince everyone that it was Freiburg’s turn to win. But without a victory since November, Freiburg could have saved the rhetoric for a match that didn’t see them paired against a crushing offence on the home turf of the league’s only undefeated squad. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsOne knee; two groins. Simon Rolfes back in the OR
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In between not liking Torsten Frings and not having an answer to the question “Why Thomas Hitzlsperger?” there was a mid-fielder that made perfect sense for the German National Team. The always there, always meddling, competent-without-red-card-earning Simon Rolfes. Just days ago I was writing here about the need for Bayer 04 to have Rolfes returned to the starting eleven. Now that discussion has been silenced. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsMatchday 19: Bayer 04 continue to be the fly in Hoffenheim’s ointment
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Hoffenheim is one of my favourite clubs. The things I like best about them are Demba Ba for having a name that is so much fun to say, and the fact that they have a perfect record of losing to Leverkusen. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsHelmes proves inarguably fit in Bayer 04 mid-week friendly
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Well, it certainly looks like someone is feeling better.
A mid-week friendly between the Werkself Irregulars and 8th-place 2. Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen gave Bayer04’s reserves a chance at competitive play, but some first-liners just back from injury also took to the pitch. Among them, Patrick Helmes, who showed just how well he has recovered from the cruciate ligament tear that kept him out for almost all of this season’s first half. In the 1-6 flogging Bayer 04 served to the hosts, Helmes dished up four.
It can’t be easy for Jupp Heynckes to choose which great talent from our full-to-breaking basket of great talent he will start on any given matchday.
Unfortunately I didn’t have opportunity to see the match so there’s not much point to my offering any sort of recap. Get the official one from the official site.
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsMatchday 18: Bayer 04 v Mainz 05. Second verse, better than the first.
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The last time we met Mainz, at the start of the 09/10 season, even the most blindly fanatical Werkself supporter wouldn’t have said we’d be still be undefeated the next time the two clubs met to launch the Rückrunde.
In that match, Tim Hoogland brought Mainz ahead after five minutes. Werkself supporters weren’t happy about it, but it didn’t carry the same weight as Hoogland’s 8th minute opener today at BayArena. The visitors’ early lead might have had some already calling it quits, shying away from hope like an abused dog, thinking they knew the Bayer 04 turning point when they saw it, and convinced they just had. A brilliant start to the season, and now the despair. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsThe Bayer 04 Winter Games
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One week until the curtain is raised on the Bundesliga Ruckrunde, and the Werkself have completed their Winter friendlies with mixed success.
Without a German in sight to support them, Bayer 04 visited Enschede to go 90-minutes against the Dutch first-division leaders, FC Twente. German supporters were barred from the friendly because police feared some unfriendly behaviour, leaving the Leverkusen squad to celebrate their 2-1 victory all by their lonesome. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsPoll: Who will end Leverkusen’s unbeaten streak?
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And a Happy New Year to you, Leverkusen fans!
Although we’re officially back in training, the Werkself news front has remained relatively quiet. Aside from the pre-Christmas news concerning Theofanis Gekas and Richard Sukuta-Pasu going out on loan to Hertha and St. Pauli, respectively, and Pierre de Wit leaving the Bayer 04 reserves to go to 2. Bundesliga table-toppers, Kaisterslautern, there has been no movement on the transfer front.
Manuel Freidrich, as you must already know, has extended his contract through the 2013 season. Captain Simon Rolfes is back in training and expected to be fit for our January 16 return to play against Mainz, as is Renato Augusto. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsMatchday 17: A Visit from ‘Gladbach
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‘Twas the week before Christmas; a chill Winter’s day
And at packed BayArena, one match left to play;
The Herbstmeister title was still close at hand,
But not before ‘Gladbach took their final stand.
The Werkself were clad in their best black-and-reds
While the words of Jupp Heynckes rang in their heads.
And Ultras waved banners, and got ready their flares
with hopes that, in 90, three points would be theirs.
When out on the pitch ref Jochen Drees did appear
Would he cost us the match, like in Wolfsburg last year? Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Bayer Leverkusen Team NewsHo, Ho, Herbstmeister!
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Very quick post as I rush out, my head heavy with Glühwein and belly distended from zimsterne, to get in a bit of Christmas shopping.
In a match not for the weak-of-heart, The Werkself have done good by their supporters and held on to the Autumn Champions rank we were all hoping for heading into the break. Kroos once again showed why he belongs in Leverkusen as he bookended Derdiyok’s equalizer in our 3:2 win over Mönchengladbach.
I’ll post again later with more and the Great Matchday 17 Victory Beard uncovering, but wanted to make sure anyone coming by had a suitable place to celebrate.
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