Stress in the Bundesliga: the Problem of displacing, until it crashes

He would prefer to be Second, has Sebastian Hoeness said on Sunday after the 4:1 victory against Bayern. As the laste thus, an additional pressure on him and 1899 Hoffenheim, as they were now only a bit less in focus, you wouldn't be climbing in the table to the top. But who defeated the Bavarians, it must be so, or so, to be in the headlines. Since the Trainer does not have to be the nephew of the former Bayern President and his Team, no leaders.

The times, as it is very cheap, seemed to meet on the Munich, if these trips of heavy and away in the Champions League had returned, passing tracks, actually. For So long, some could no longer remember. Now those days are apparently here again. And it wouldn't be Bayern, make no mistake, you would have to attest to the duration, the winner is actually management error in the compilation of the squad, which currently appears to be a bit thin. That it could come with the fatigue of the players as on Sunday in Hoffenheim, was basically not the question – but given the Terminhatz rather when it would happen.

So unpredictable football may be, Much of what happened at the weekend was in sight. And this is true not only for Bayern, it is also true for Schalke 04 and Mainz 05. To take the problems of last season into the new season and hope that it would magically be better and all difficulties vanish into thin air, appears here, as there, somewhat naive.

Maybe Sebastian Hoeness with his desire not to stand in the centre, a little to David Wagner thought. To me not long ago that he seemed to be the right man for Schalke after the Bundesliga last season, Schalke were finally in the table, level on points with Borussia Dortmund, and who agreed to the BVB at the time, chances of winning the title certificate, had to do this, albeit with a twinkle in his eyes, also at Schalke. Then Royal blue crashed together with miracle man Wagner. And somewhere in Moscow of his predecessor, the also temporary Schalke miracle will have thought of coach Domenico Tedesco, who is now coach of the current second-placed Spartak,: Yeah, I know.