TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

Right.

And, and Touré, I think Touré actually is better on the right and will be on the right at some point, because he did feature on the right a lot for Hoffenheim.

But I don't see where, like even looking at Touré's game, He's fitter, he's faster, he's quicker, and he's younger, and he's hungrier.

Like, why Jacob Murphy was asserted to be less of a risk than throwing in Toure, or putting Toure on the left and throwing Barnes on the right.

There is nobody else, especially with Alanga being injured, there is nobody else barbaring.

That's why I think Joe Linton was kept, because he can do a job out on the left.

I don't want to say it's a square peg in a round hole, but he was originally a left midfielder, left winger for Hoffenheim.

He came into us as a striker and ended up as a centre midfielder.

You have CSKA Sofia against RB Leipzig.

You have OFI against Hoffenheim.

Those are the early kickoffs, the seven, the 5:45s.

At 8:00 PM, Celtic against Ferencváros, Juventus-NEC, Viktoria Plzen against Union, Lillestrøm against Torrens, Real Sociedad against Bournemouth, Beşiktaş against Marseille, and Crystal Palace against Lech Poznań.

You have Leschi Sofia against Orbi Leipzig.

You have OFI against Hoffenheim.

Those are the early kickoffs, the 545s.

At 8pm, Celtic against Ferencvaros, Juventus-NEC, Victoria-Pleasant against Union, Lillestrom against Thorens, Real Sociedad against Bournemouth, Besiktas against Marseille, and Crystal Palace against Lech Poznań.

This will be a pretty unique opportunity for him.

Benbase Conte from Hoffenheim had no idea he would be selected.

I got to be completely honest.

This was one of the more shocking selections to me just because we had not heard anything about him.

And I mean, he's also on a Hoffenheim team that has one not been great this season.

But two had a real collapse last year.

So, you know, I think about, you know, Hoffenheim and where they're at as a team.

And it would make it pretty difficult, at least to me, for players to emerge there, especially because they've got some established players.

I hope El Mala is able to start this game because for me, it's absolutely huge.

He is still their talisman, and he's not been able to start a game since that opening day win against Hoffenheim, which is super unlucky, to be honest, because it seemed like an injury or even an illness that came out of nowhere, really, after the opening day win where he was stellar in that particular game.

um it's a hard one to tip uh but i've gone for a bit of a kind of left field prediction in this one i've gone for a two-all draw just because i think hamburg have got to improve i mean this is a huge game for me say they get whacked in this game it's a long way back from there to be honest if they if they lose this two or three nil or something like or even if they lose it at all to be honest uh So I have gone for a two-all.

I think it'll be quite an open game where both sides try and win this one.

It's been, you know, they did all they needed to do in the Champions League to get off the mark, which is really important from a winning perspective.

They bounced back from the Bayern win to beat Köln.

You know, the result against Hoffenheim is disappointing, but it could have gone either way, you know, chances and kind of big moments in that match.

But this is also a big one for them because they don't want to be, I don't want them to be, one win from four games in the bundesliga because that's a poor start overall but they have played some good teams as well so it is a tricky one um and this is a tricky game dortmund find themselves in in fine fetal from a from a form point of view they've got players who are in form girassi silver and you know they'll be looking at possibly bringing in Caret Sass back in after his illness, his wobble.

finally, the charity bet.

I went out on a bit of a limb here, took a big price 17-10 Stuttgart win away from home at Hoffenheim and they did not win, they lost 2-1.

Hoffenheim took an early lead, Stuttgart levelled it up early in the second half but the third goal went away the home side and they were able to see out the game.

I was maybe a bit ambitious putting a 17-10 shot in the charity slot but I did really fancy them.

you've shot

Uh, Levski against Salzburg, which kicks off pretty shortly.

Um, most of the money on Anders for that, interestingly, uh, Crete against Hoffenheim, all the cash for Hoffenheim.

Palace have been bet.

Overs have been bet in that game as well, as Nigel was alluding to.

Nico Schlotterbeck, Jonathan Tah, Philipp Treu, Joshua Wackermann.

Then in midfield is Nadim Amiri, Bambasic Conte from Hoffenheim.

Very interesting.

Yannick Engelhardt, another Freiburg guy.