Borussia Mönchengladbach

They played all the form teams, basically.

It's like they need a game against a Gladbach or someone like that.

And then they might be able to win one.

But I don't think it's a real major problem for Augsburg.

still haven't scored just one more point on that they still haven't scored at home in four games rory yeah and also in eight games six they haven't scored a goal that's insane numbers really Yeah,

yeah, that's real bad.

So, yeah, just finishing off Saturday, the 0-0 draw, Gladbach and Paderborn.

Both teams obviously would have been desperate to have won this game.

Cold up north.

Stuttgart against Dresden again another one that would have been better the other way around Dresden home atmosphere is good so Stuttgart will hope to win that relatively comfortably Gladbach against Darmstadt as well that could be interesting Gladbach a little bit of an improvement the last three games including the cup win over Karlsruhe in the last round but they're nowhere near out of the woods and we know their struggles we know their problems so Darmstadt could give them a good game as well so some really interesting ties We will see at least two Bundesliga clubs go out of the competition, regardless of what happens as well.

Those ties will be played on the 1st and 2nd of December.

So, that brings an end to this episode of the Bundesliga Diaries.

Some interesting fixtures to keep an eye on.

Köln against Leverkusen next Sunday, which is something of a Ryan Derby.

Not the Ryan Derby, Köln Gladbach, but...

One to still enjoy.

They've scored a lot of goals at home as well, but they've not welcomed a team of Manchester City's calibre.

You know, the home matches, they played Elversburg, I think they played Frankfurt, who are having a bit of a struggle season, played Mönchengladbach, who are bottom of the table, and Hamburg, so it's not been a very tough schedule.

So it'll be really interesting to see how they deal at home with a genuinely good team um see i was just looking at maybe taking a total of minus 109 for over three and a half goals um which was uh was of interest i think leipzig got a goal or two in them and winnow city's got at least three of them uh against average opponents so that'd be the way i'd be leaning but it's no real firm play

Okay.

Something you got to think about, right? 4-0 against Elversburg, 1-0 against PSV, 6-0 against Frankfurt.

5-0 against, you know, Hamburg and 3-0 against Gladbach.

I mean, these are just, these are insane results.

No, they have not conceded a goal at home.

And I use this as more of like a generalized conversation about like opportunities that both he and Tillman could make the team theirs theoretically over these four games.

And I loved it for Gio because all we ever talk about with Gio is, well, why is he not getting the minutes at Dortmund? Why was he not getting the minutes at Nottingham Forest? Why was he not getting the minutes at Borussia Mönchengladbach? He's now getting the minutes.

And finally, we're seeing a fully healthy 100% Gio Reyna for the first time in the better part of, what, four years? Maybe four and a half years? That he's absolutely flying.

And he's got this mentality that he's like, no, I want to be the man.

He opened the scoring after 37 minutes before Romulo added the finish 12 minutes from time to put the results beyond expectations.

doubts and also happening yesterday Borussia Mönchengladbach drew blank with Paderborn and Bayer Leverkusen suffered a surprise defeat at home to VfB Stuttgart that game finished 4-2 in favour of Stuttgart and then in the other game Augsburg lost at home to Freiburg by the odd goal in 3 and in the game of the round Bayern Munich drew 2-2 all with Borussia Dortmund they drew 2-2 all with Borussia Dortmund in that game Quite a surprise that was, especially given how late in the game Dortmund got the leveler.

So, Dortmund, actually, there were two goals that were ruled out in that game yesterday.

Job Belliam scored after 34 minutes, but there was a foul in the build-up to that goal, and so it was ruled out by the video assistant referee before Conrad Leimer gave Bayern the lead just four minutes later.

But yeah, Bayern are on 18 points, followed by Dortmund on 18 points, Freiburg in third place on 16, then RB Leipzig in fourth place on 15.

In mid-table, Augsburg are... on nine points, Stuttgart on nine, and then Hoffenheim on nine points.

Then you've got Union Berlin on seven points, 16th, Schalke on six points, 17th, and then Borussia Mönchengladbach at rock bottom on four points.

There are two games currently.

Oscar Frauleau was the main man for Utrecht.

They were desperate for him back when he was on loan there for two years from Mönchengladbach.

He was really good there, played in Europe for them as they finished towards the top of the Eredivisie every year.

These are decent players, but probably not the type of player that Eustis wants, right? He wants a certain type of player.

Obviously, Italiano is a couple of years older, 25 and Adamson, 23.

But if you follow their path, obviously, Italiano went for the Perth ranks and then went over to Europe with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

and then played 103 games for them.

And then obviously now he's cemented his spot in Grazia.