Spieltag 8 - 19th/20th/21st October

Week 8

Fri 19/10/12
Hoffenheim 19 : 30 Greuther Fürth

Sat 20/10/12
Borussia Dortmund 14 : 30 Schalke 04
Bayer Leverkusen 14 : 30 Mainz 05
Wolfsburg 14 : 30 Freiburg
Eintracht Fran… 14 : 30 Hannover 96
Fortuna Düsseldorf 14 : 30 Bayern München
Werder Bremen 17 : 30 Borussia M'gla…

Sun 21/10/12
Nürnberg 14 : 30 Augsburg More info
Hamburger SV 16 : 30 Stuttgart

Week 8 gets underway on Friday night with a home fixture for Hoffenheim against Greuther Fürth.
The pick of this weekends games is on Saturday when Borussia Dortmund take on Schalke 04 in the local derby.
League leaders Bayern Munich are away at Fortuna Dusseldof looking to make it an incredible 8 wins in a row.
The final match of the weekend is on Sunday night between Hamburg now unbeaten in 4 and a disappointing Stuttgart side

Any comments or predictions?

Schalke 04 fans are banned from taking flags and banners into Borussia Dortmund's stadium for the Ruhr Derby on Saturday as they behaved badly last season.

Fri 19/10/12
Hoffenheim 3 - 3 Greuther Fürth - Att 22,150
1-0 Roberto Firmino 8'
1-1 Z. Stieber 39'
2-1 Joselu 67'
2-2 E. Prib 84'
3-2 Joselu 89'
3-3 L. Sobiech 90'+3

Dortmund v Schalke

Line ups

Dortmund

Manager - Jurgen Klopp

1 R. Weidenfeller
15 M. Hummels
26 Ł. Piszczek
4 N. Subotić
5 S. Kehl
14 I. Perišić
6 S. Bender
19 K. Großkreutz
7 M. Leitner
9 R. Lewandowski
11 M. Reus

Subs

20 M. Langerak

21 O. Kirch

23 J. Schieber

24 C. Löwe

27 Felipe Santana

32 L. Bittencourt

35 J. Hofmann

Schalke

Manager - Huub Stevens

36 L. Unnerstall
22 A. Uchida
23 C. Fuchs
4 B. Höwedes
32 J. Matip
11 I. Afellay
33 R. Neustädter
10 L. Holtby
12 M. Höger
25 K. Huntelaar
17 J. Farfán

Subs

8 C. Marica

13 J. Jones

20 T. Pukki

27 T. Barnetta

28 C. Moritz

34 T. Hildebrand

35 S. Kolasinac

HT

Dortmund 0-1 Schalke

Afellay 14'

Result

Sat 20/10/12

Borussia Dortmund 1 - 2 Schalke 04 - Att 80,645
0-1 I. Afellay 14'
0-2 48' M. Höger
1-2 R. Lewandowski 55'

Schalke win the Ruhr derby 2-1 away at local rivals Borussia Dortmund!

Any comments on this match?

Sat 20/10/12
Bayer Leverkusen 2 - 2 Mainz 05 - Att 28,077
1-0 S. Kießling 43'
1-1 Á. Szalai 58'
1-2 M. Risse 76'
2-2 G. Castro 87'

Wolfsburg 0 - 2 Freiburg - Att 25,080
0-1 D. Caligiuri (PG) 40'
0-2 J. Schuster 84'

Eintracht Fran… 3 - 1 Hannover 96 - Att 50.500
1-0 K. Matmour 5'
2-0 S. Jung 18'
2-1 M. Abdellaoue 43'
3-1 A. Meier 83'

Fortuna Düsseldorf 0 - 5 Bayern München - Att 54,000
0-1 M. Mandžukić 28'
0-2 Luiz Gustavo 36'
0-3 T. Müller 55'
0-4 T. Müller 86'
0-5 Rafinha 87'

Any comments on todays results?

Saturday result:

Werder Bremen 4 - 0 Borussia M’Gladbach
1:0 Petersen 37'
2:0 Arnautoviæ 45'
3:0 Füllkrug 76'
4:0 Junuzoviæ 86'

Any comments?

Sunday results:

Hamburger SV 0 - 1 VfB Stuttgart
0:1 Ibisevic 30'

FC Nürnberg 0 - 0 FC Augsburg

Any comments? Those were the latest games of 8th matchday of Bundesliga.

I understand now why Dortmund lost 2-1 at home to Schalke.
The manager Klopp asked his team to play with just 3 defenders only
1 hour before the kick off and this allowed Stevens team to take advantage of the new system.