Nine games and only one home victory

I’ve got absolutely no idea the last time this happened, but the midweek round of games saw six away victories, two draws, and only one home win. Most of these will probably show you why I hardly ever win when I bet.

Most surprising of all was Hannover’s 1-0 away win versus Bayern, courtesy of Huszti’s 43rd minute strike. All is not well in Munich – this was the first ever Bayern game in the Allianz Arena that wasn’t sold out, and the fans that did turn up treated the players to a ‘Pfeifkonzert’, or concert of whistles, at half time and throughout the second half. HSV lost again, this time to the only victorious home team, Vfb Stuttgart, where Gomez got another one to take sole possession of first spot in the race for the golden boot, Dortmund drew at home again this time versus Aachen in a dull dull dull game, Mainz went down 2-1 to Wolfsburg (and are now bottom), Hanke scoring again and has since been recalled to the German national squad. Flavour of the month Bremen beat Nürnberg 2-1 to go further clear at the top of the table - they have now scored 30 times in 11 games and have shared the goals amongst 13 different scorered, a feat unmatched in Bundesliga history at this stage of the season.

Borussia Mönchengladbach fell further into the mire, losing 2-0 to Schalke, Bielefeld drew 2-2 with Berlin, MOM Fiedler keeping Berlin in it, Leverkusen are still just about keeping Michael Skibbe in a job, beating Bochum 3-1, and Eintracht Frankfurt confounded my expectations by emerging victorious in Cottbus, courtesy of another Takarara goal. It could and should have been more, but I couldn’t give a toss, Eintracht are now 7th and could potentially move up to fourth with a victory at home to Bielefeld this weekend.

Can’t wait!