Bundesliga - 1st/2nd/3rd February

Spieltag 20

Fri 01/02/13
Werder Bremen 19 : 30 Hannover 96

Sat 02/02/13
Schalke 04 14 : 30 Greuther Fürth
Wolfsburg 14 : 30 Augsburg
Hoffenheim 14 : 30 Freiburg
Mainz 05 14 : 30 Bayern München
Fortuna Düsseldorf 14 : 30 Stuttgart
Hamburger SV 17 : 30 Eintracht Fran…

Sun 03/02/13
Nürnberg 14 : 30 Borussia M'gla…
Bayer Leverkusen 16 : 30 Borussia Dortmund

Werder Bremen get this weekends action underway on Friday night against Hannover 96.
Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munchen are away at Mainz who have been in good form and risen to 5th place.
The pick of week 20's matches is of course the big clash between Leverkusen and Dortmund on Sun afternoon.
Jurgen Klopps team have won their last 3 in a row and a win in this game would take them into 2nd in the league.
Do you have any comments or predictions?

Friday result:

Werder Bremen 2 - 0 Hannover 96
1:0 N. Petersen 85'
2:0 N. Petersen 88'

Werder have now 28 points and still stay in the middle of the table. Do you have any comments?

Saturday results:

Hamburger SV 0 - 2 Eintracht Frankfurt
0:1 Lakic 22'
0:2 Lakic 36'

Schalke 1 - 2 Greuther
1:0 Bastos 47'
1:1 Klaus 52'
1:2 Djurdjic 90+2'

TSG Hoffenheim 2 - 1 SC Freiburg
0:1 Kruse 4'
1:1 Volland 10'
2:1 Volland 26'

VfL Wolfsburg 1 - 1 Augsburg
1:0 Naldo 23'
1:1 Moravek 25'

FSV Mainz 0 - 3 Bayern Munich
0:1 Mueller 41'
0:2 Mandzukiæ 50'
0:3 Mandzukiæ 57'

Fortuna Dusseldorf 3 - 1 VfB Stuttgart
1:0 Kruse 10'
2:0 Kruse 37'
2:1 Gentner 60'
3:1 Fink 76'

No surprise in Mainz where Bayern beat FSV 0:3. Munich team are the leaders with advantage of 14 points over Bayer Leverkusen before their tommoro's game against 3rd in the table Borussia Dortmund.
But there were many surprises in Greuther and Hoffenheim's games. Both teams that are close to be relegated won their matches. Today's victory was much more important for Greuther because they still have only 12 points (missing 4 points to leave the relegation place).
Do you have any comments?

It was a big surprise that Furth won away at Schalke but I was disappointed Mainz didn't do better against Bayern.

Any comments or predictions for Leverkusen v Dortmund on Sunday?

Borussia Dortmund will play without Roman Weidenfeller. German goalkeepers has a cold and he will be replaced by Mitchell Langerak. This is an opportunity for Bayer Leverkusen. That's going to be the debut of Australian player in Bundesliga.

What an amazing beggining by Borussia! In 9th minute they're on the lead 0:2! Goals for Dortmund by Reus and Blaszczykowski.

Sunday results:

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 - 3 Borussia Dortmund
0:1 Reus 3'
0:2 B³aszczykowski 9' (penalty kick)
1:2 Reinartz 58'
2:2 Reinartz 62'
2:3 Lewandowski 63'

FC Nürnberg 2 - 1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1:0 Simons 4' (penalty kick)
2:0 Pekhart 30'
2:1 Herrmann 58'

That was a superb game in Leverkusen at BayArena. Borussia beat local Bayer 2:3 and take the 2nd place in the table missing 12 points to the leader Bayern Munich. The result could have been higher as Blaszczykowski failed his second penalty kick. By the way, this is the real weekend of penalties (summing Bundesliga and Serie A ).

What are your comments on this interesting match?

Well done to Dortmund!

It sounds like Leverkusen made it a hard match.