Where in NZ can you get decent Bundesliga highlights? You used to be able to get a few on Strata/Triangle whatever...seems like the Germans are the new Spanish at the moment...
Where in NZ can you get decent Bundesliga highlights? You used to be able to get a few on Strata/Triangle whatever...seems like the Germans are the new Spanish at the moment...
There is a show called Kick Off Soccer on Face TV at 1:00pm on a Saturday. Face TV is on SKY channel 83.
I found this interesting - some of the sub-plots going on in the Bundesliga Guardian article
Kotahitanga. We are one.
Well, it's all rocking on Sommet from tomorrow morning.
Check this out for the weekend:
Saturday 6:25: FC Bayern v Borussia Moenchengladbach LIVE (Big season opener)
Saturday:
04:00 Bundesliga Preview (half hour show)
04:25 Eintracht Braunschweig v Werder Bremen LIVE
06:30 Augsburg v B Dortmund (delayed)
08:20 Leverkusen v Freiburg (delayed)
And then Sommet is also playing a couple of championship games live + Charity shield. Its not looking half bad (if I wasn't going tramping!)
I know, I know, its serious!
For those that have freeview, Sommit Sports show up to 6 Bundesliga games every weekend!
This Sunday: Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich 10 am
For those that have freeview, Sommit Sports show up to 6 Bundesliga games every weekend!
This Sunday: Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich 10 am
Difficult game for me. Not sure which scarf to put on when watching that. At least a better performance from Frankfurt than last weekend.
Only two Bundesliga games on Sommet from this coming weekend (with a replay of each too):
BUNDESLIGA ON SOMMET SPORT (FREEVIEW UHF CH. 14) THE NEXT WEEK:
SUN. 10 am : Frankfurt v Bayern Munich
TUES. 5.30 am : Borussia Monchengladbach v Hanover
TUES. 1 pm : Frankfurt v Bayern replay
TUES. 5.30pm : Monchengladbach v Hanover replay
Sommet's Bundesliga coverage comes from Setanta Sports, the Irish-based international broadcaster.
To see which Bundesliga games Setanta are broadcasting on any week, refer here: http://www.setanta.com/au/our-sports/soccer/german/
Setanta's commentary makes a nice change from Mr Magoo (Tommy Smith) and co. we've had to put up with for so long on ESPN.
Goodbye Mr Magoo!!! :
 Mr. Magoo / Mr Tommy Smyth |
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
Bundesliga highlights show from 6 to 7 pm this Friday.
BVB v Werder Bremen 8.45am Sat
Bavarian derby on Sunday, Bayern Munich v Nuremberg 6.30am Sun
Eintracht Braunschweig v Eintracht Frankfurt 5.15am Mon (go Frankfurt)
Augsburg v Stuttgart 9.30am Mon
Hannover v Schalke 3.30pm Mon
Freiburg v Bayern Munich 4.25am Wed
Bit pissed with Sommet on this mornings football. Instead we got dirt bike riding at 12:15 am but were meant to get 2 German games.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
Anyone else watch the game Saturday morning....Goal THROUGH the side netting awarded......[blind FIFA ref]...but he is blaming the players from Hoffenhenheim for not protesting....YEAH RIGHT..how about the lino who checked the nets.....of himself for not checking too.
Great football in the German Bundesliga league......Thanks Sommet.
Anyone else watch the game Saturday morning....Goal THROUGH the side netting awarded......[blind FIFA ref]...but he is blaming the players from Hoffenhenheim for not protesting....YEAH RIGHT..how about the lino who checked the nets.....of himself for not checking too.
Great football in the German Bundesliga league......Thanks Sommet.
Here is the famous "ghost goal":
Contrast with that other "ghost goal" that was obviously a goal not awarded to Frank Lampard v Germany World Cup 2010:
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
Bundesliga Promotion
Bundesliga Returns This Weekend after the Christmas break. The person that sends in the funniest or craziest photo of themselves watching Sommet Sports will win a 22" LCD TV and choose a Team signed Bundesliga Shirt from either:
Werner Bremen
Wolfsburg
Mainz
SC Freiburg
To qualify please make sure that you have liked our Facebook page and send your entries to promo@sommetsports.co.nz. Promotion closes 28/02/14. Entries will be shown on our website.
Bundesliga Returns This Weekend after the Christmas break. The person that sends in the funniest or craziest photo of themselves watching Sommet Sports will win a 22" LCD TV and choose a Team signed Bundesliga Shirt from either:
Werner Bremen
Wolfsburg
Mainz
SC Freiburg
To qualify please make sure that you have liked our Facebook page and send your entries to promo@sommetsports.co.nz. Promotion closes 28/02/14. Entries will be shown on our website.
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
Two Stuttgart games live on Sommet Sports this week: (against the first and second teams on the table)
Marco Rojas picked up a new injury in Stuttgart's friendlies in South Africa during the Xmas break (slight knee injury) so was missing from the squad for the 2-1 home loss v Mainz last weekend. But should be available soon.
8 am Friday: v Bayern Munich at home
3.30 am Sunday: v Leverkusen away
Very little hope of picking up any points in those games!!!
Lets hope Marco regains some fitness and at least comes on as a sub in a game soon...
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
The Bundesliga is the highest scoring of the 'big 5' European leagues for the 24th season in a row:
Bundesliga maintains goal-scoring reputation
Posted by Uli Hesse
For the past 11 years, the customary end-of-season column has always been about goals. This time, it's slightly different. Now it's about tons of goals.
This won't come as a surprise if you've followed the Bundesliga season fairly closely. The one thing that struck you after almost every matchday was the number of goals.
I pointed that out as early as October, in a piece on the highly unlikely absence of scoreless draws (Goals, goals, goals – Oct. 8, 2013). When I wrote that column, the league was producing an average of 3.31 goals per game.
So I wrote: "Those of you who are familiar with my traditional end-of-season column, which looks at the goals-per-game averages in Germany, England, Spain, Italy and France, will be aware that 3.31 is a massive figure. For those of you who don't quite know what to make of the number: In the past 20 years, the highest goals-per-game average in those five big leagues has been 2.98 (racked up by the Bundesliga in 1996-97).
"Of course we won't finish the season with an average of 3.31 goals per game. That number has to drop, and it will drop, because even cracking the 3.0 barrier is unheard-of in a big, competitive league in the modern age."
I was right, as the league didn't finish with a 3.31 average. But I was also wrong, because the Bundesliga did manage to break the three-goal barrier for the first time in almost 30 years. The 1986-87 season produced 3.24 goals per game, and we've never been able to even come close to this -- until now.
For the season, there were 3.16 goals per 90 Bundesliga minutes. I guess I have to repeat myself: This is a massive figure. France's Ligue 1 managed 2.45 goals per game. As you may know, the French always finish last in this ranking, so that is not an unusual figure. In fact, it's pretty good for France. It's the league's third-best tally of the past 10 years.
Yet the Bundesliga clubs scored more total goals than the French teams, even though Ligue 1 has four additional matchdays. That's how massive 3.16 is.
It's tempting to argue that the goal deluge in the Bundesliga was due to the stunning form Bayern Munich displayed until mid-March. But having one or two goal-hungry teams isn't what makes the difference in this particular statistic.
Just compare Spain with Italy. Two teams in the Primera Division broke the 100-goal barrier, Real Madrid and Barcelona, while only one team in Serie A, Juventus, even reached 80 goals. Yet the Spanish outscored the Italians by only a narrow margin. The Primera Division produced 2.75 goals per game; Serie A had 2.72 goals per match.
The reason why the big teams aren't a decisive factor is that while they may score many goals, they also tend to concede few. This season, Bayern were responsible for 117 goals, scoring 94 and shipping 23. Last year, it was 116 goals.
GettyImagesHoffenheim's Roberto Firmino scored 16 Bundesliga goals this season.
So if the Munich juggernaut wasn't responsible for the historic 3.16 average, who was? Well, Hoffenheim. They found the net 72 times and conceded 70 goals, a grand total of 142 goals in games involving Hoffenheim. Has midtable mediocrity ever been more fun to watch?
OK, so we have France (2.45) at the bottom, then Italy (2.72), then Spain (2.75). What about England? If you have been following this particular column over the years, you are familiar with the strange fact that the Bundesliga has been topping these charts every year since 1990 -- even though, and this is the funny bit, the average wasn't always very high.
In 1996, the Bundesliga produced only 2.71 goals per game. Seven years later, in 2003, there was another goal drought -- 2.68. And in 2007, its clubs scored only 2.74 goals per game. All these figures wouldn't be enough to defend first place now. But by a weird coincidence, the other leagues also had unproductive seasons in those years.
So I was fully prepared for another weird coincidence and a close race between the Bundesliga and the Premier League, despite the massive German numbers and the fact that the best figure racked up by England's top flight in the past 15 years was 2.81 goals per game. Liverpool had scored freely and conceded quite a few, so perhaps they had been the Premier League's Hoffenheim.
But no. The Premier League's goals per game average is just 2.77, good enough to hold Spain at bay but way behind the most recent output from the Bundesliga's goal assembly line. The German top flight has won this particular competition for the 24th season in a row.
So, the defending is shite?
Sure, sometimes it is or maybe other leagues attack's are shite? But what league doesn't at some point have some teams that are poor defensively or offensively. It is also interesting that this goes back to the late 80's and takes into account when Germany where WC and Euro champs based on a setup of being defensively solid and not known for attacking football - showing talented defensive players and tactical nous was present in the BDL. Some of the BDL teams have also been competitive in Europe during this period with Dortmund, Bayern, S04, Bremen and Leverkusen having all won in Europe.
Could just be the intent of all teams is to attack more, and for the most part of the past 25 yrs Bayern have only been the really dominant team so other teams feel they can get something from just about all games and setup to try and do so. Where as in some other leagues there are a bloc of dominant teams and weaker teams look at not losing (by too much :p) rather than looking at winning against these teams. Might even have something to do with the league only playing 34 games and not as many cup games and players are slightly fresher and teams can have slightly smaller squads meaning less rotation and being better in sync which helps in attack. Could also be down to the 50+1 rule where members prefer their club to be positive in their pursuit of success rather than the business setup of clubs in some foreign leagues of winning at all costs.
Schalke Cup Pre-Season Football on Sommet this weekend and next week from Germany:
Schalke, Malaga, Newcastle, West Ham. Great stuff!!! Two day tournament, four games.
Just saw it up on the Freeview Program guide.
Will be interesting to compare how the Hammers and Newcastle do in this tournament compared to in NZ last week.
Schedule: Sunday 1 am : Newcastle Utd v Malaga (rpt 4 pm)
Sunday 9.30 pm Hammers v Schalke (delayed)
Monday 1 am Hammers v Malaga live (rpt 6.30 pm Tues.)
4 pm Newcastle v Schalke (delayed)
Up to Six Bundesliga Games a Week as Last Season on Sommet starting with German Super Cup Thurs. 14:
14/08/2014 04:00 NZT German Super Cup Dortmund v Bayern Munich 
Bundesliga Round One:
23/08/2014 06:30 NZT BundesligaRound 1 Bayern Munich v Wolfsburg
24/08/2014 04:30 NZ TBundesliga Round 1 Dortmund v Leverkusen
25/08/2014 03:30 NZT Bundesliga Round 1 Monchengladbach v Stuttgart
Schedule from Setanta Sports Australia who supply Sommet's Bundesliga coverage:
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
How good was Lewandowski's touch to control the ball for his second and Bayern's 3rd against Hannover 96!? Just awesome.
Yes, the difference between a good player and a quality one.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Loving Hertha's second half goals against VFB Stuttgart. Classic stuff.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.
Bundesliga coverage at an all time high, live on youtube! http://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/bundesliga-live-on-youtube-in-new-zealand.jsp
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3uJGozO1imeE8VwFCi_8HaL3S41ElsXQ
also a highlights show on tvnz ondemand! https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/bundesliga
The highlights of match day 1 are well worth a watch...
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/bundesliga/17-08-2...
Bayern Munich's opening performance was something to see!
So too is Theodor Gebre Selassie's awesome own goal for Werder Bremen against Shalke 04 - see 20:07 in the highlights!
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.
Has anyone actually watched any of the friday night (sat morning) games on the youtube channel yet? Theres one on right now but can't find it on the site..
Has anyone actually watched any of the friday night (sat morning) games on the youtube channel yet? Theres one on right now but can't find it on the site..
I watched a few before Christmas, looks like they are on tvnz now as holeinone said
went to watch this mornings game and there is not one there, disapointed now have to sit here and watch nothing
Don't think there was one last Saturday morning, as there was a mid week round that week. Munich v Dortmund was on Sunday though I believe
went to watch this mornings game and there is not one there, disapointed now have to sit here and watch nothing
TVNZ's Bundesliga coverage has migrated to it's new men's channel "Duke"
Duke screens on ch.13 on Freeview and ch. 23 on Sky
Live Bundesliga matches every Saturday morning.
One hour Bundesliga Highlights Show every Monday 6 pm.
Half hour football magazine show "Club Land" every Thursday 6.30 pm with stories on two major clubs from around the world (history and current form) and major players. This week was Boca Juniors and Monaco. Worth watching.
They also have a few live AFL matches every week plus live (and delayed) NBA on Wednesdays and will have NFL games from the States next NFL season.
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
Bundesliga 2 shenanigans
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/15/s...
St Pauli manager misses unveiling of new signing, so club use man in mask
LOL
BTW, the manager is famous for this injury from a tasty challenge:
Dortmund have signed Mario Götze from Bayern Munich on a 4-year deal. He's back in Dortmund. Dortmund press release.
Bundesliga still on the Duke channel this season?
Doesn't kick off till August 26 (27th NZT)
Maybe beIN will show it on Sky instead?
Barcelona v Sampdoria friendly live tomorrow at 6.30 am on Duke channel.
Good to see there's still some football on Freeview.
Repeated tomorrow and Saturday afternoon.
So looking positive for some sort of football on Duke.
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
Bundesliga still on the Duke channel this season?
Doesn't kick off till August 26 (27th NZT)
Maybe beIN will show it on Sky instead?
Barcelona v Sampdoria friendly live tomorrow at 6.30 am on Duke channel.
Good to see there's still some football on Freeview.
Repeated tomorrow and Saturday afternoon.
So looking positive for some sort of football on Duke.
Bundesliga still on the Duke channel this season?
Doesn't kick off till August 26 (27th NZT)
Maybe beIN will show it on Sky instead?
Barcelona v Sampdoria friendly live tomorrow at 6.30 am on Duke channel.
Good to see there's still some football on Freeview.
Repeated tomorrow and Saturday afternoon.
So looking positive for some sort of football on Duke.
Thank you for your message. Unfortunately we have to tell you, that this season there will be no matches on Youtube in New Zealand anymore.
Best wishes
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