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Yeah, I think Gladbach is looking bad right now.

It's a big, big team in Germany, like very, very historically very big, very traditional and just a big team with a lot of titles and trophies to their name so i hate saying that but um yeah they're just not looking not looking good right now what do you think do you do even know anything about Bundesliga when it comes to relegation? I'm going Paderborn.

I'm just throwing

them out there.

Dortmund themselves have scored 11 goals across their last four matches.

They hit three against Hoffenheim, Villarreal and Paderborn.

Uh, Fabio Silva has scored in each of their three games so far.

Garasi remains the focal point, of course.

That's last match day, the bicycle kick.

You know, in Dortmund, it's Dortmund... really fascinates me this season because their start has been so good this season right and that is that is great but when you look at the teams that they faced so far in the Bundesliga HSV Hoffenheim Paderborn It's not the toughest program in the world.

Of course, Hoffenheim, yeah, you know, they look good in the Bundesliga at times, but I thought they were quite poor in the Europa League midweek.

And they have a few players that got called up, right? But like, you know, they look quite, I thought they, I was a little disappointed by them.

Beach Stuttgart, Paderborn newly promoted, you know, your expectations are to beat them.

And so for Dortmund, this is the first big task, right? of the season and to see if they can make it 4-4 and keep Bayern Munich at bay you know despite Bayern Munich of course their fixture is today Friday by the time of recording and they will take a look at that result against Union Berlin and try to keep them at bay so For Borussia Dortmund, they always seem to have an easy start in the Bundesliga.

This is the first big task.

So as much as Klopp wants to look at the collective of the team and how they operate together, there is going to be some inherent pressure on guys like Kevin Schott and some of the others to produce.

Mika Bauer from Celtic, he made the move from Paderborn.

Central midfielder has been a good addition there at Celtic.

Someone who I think no one expected to be on the radar of Klopp.

Felix Keitel, who is great that Elversberg are being noticed because he's been a great story, isn't it? Yeah, it's really good because the thing about him as well is that he wasn't a defensive midfielder and he's been switched into that position.

And even Mika Bauer, who was great for Paderborn, has gone to Celtic.

So these are guys that I think Klopp has been really clever with because I think the general message he's sending out to the league is, look, lads, if you play well, you're in with a shot.

It's not going to be the same old names.

Yeah, interesting game for sure.

And finally, last but not least, indeed, we have Paderborn taking on TSG Hoffenheim in the Sunday evening fixture slot, which not many people favour from time to time, but also on Sunday evening gives you something to watch.

I actually genuinely am starting to vibe this for an upset, having just seen what Hoffenheim have just done in their Europa League opener, being comfortably beating 2-0 in Greece.

I mean, you know, it's disappointing for Hoffenheim overall because they'll obviously want to have a good campaign and what's interesting now will be how how they can balance their squad with us is something that we haven't yet seen from this particular squad of players.

At least they've had a lovely trip to, from what I understand from reading, they were in Heraklion, which is a delightful part of the world.

So at least they've had a great time, but not from a results point of view.

So having to then back it up on Sunday, Sunday evening in Paderborn, I think it'll be tricky.

I really think it'll be tricky for Hoffenheim to break down Paderborn.

Negative six goal differential.

Last weekend, they lost 3-1 to Schalke, who, like I talked about in our Bundesliga preview, Schalke, Elversburg, Paderborn, They're not bad teams.

They're really not.

They're going to have an opportunity to stick around, especially if squads like Union Berlin, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Hamburg all kind of stay faltering like they are right now.