I am gonna use Googles for this post, just to end the year in 2023, before I go back to the 90s teletext version of Mozilla, which I really dont like. I also dont like that we have no Snow here on the Iceberg, it is wet muddy and grey, I really would prefer snow and sun, I mean come on, it is raining again now, it has been raining for ever it seems?

For whatever reason it is not really a mid term, they still have a game to go for the half way point, very un-German like to have the mid break 16/34th into a season.
The hottest team in football is Bayer not Bayern, yeah the original Pretenders are the hottest team in football, top of the table in the Bundesliga without a loss, best Goals against, 2nd best goals scored and the Europa record is even better. And make no mistake Europa is the new Champions League, it is just better. I can save you a couple of months of UCl and tell you the final will be between Man City and Real Madrid, the Europa on the other hand is wide open, could be anyone, we dont even know who is playing in it yet?

Unlike the WWE PL or most of the big leagues, the Bundesliga winter transfer winsow is not about who will be bought, but it is about who will be sold. So, for example will 3rd place Stuttgart lose top scorer Guirassy? Will Running Bull Leipzig lose Openda? Will Bayern snap up Wirtz from Bayer, you know they will at some point, if for no other reason than to weaken the direct competition. Would not be surprised if Bayer lose Boniface, though the African Nations Cup might save them from being sold?

If you go by kicker-and this just proves how wrong kicker is at assessing players- the top player is Leroy Sane, really????? DO they actually watch the games???? The fastest is of course Alphonso Davies, you know who runs the most? Xhaka, I am a little bit surprised by that. Harrykane is doing fine at Bayern and has become the new Super Mario Gomez. Will he ever reach the heights of Super mario? Probably not, big boots to fill and he is a bit Spursy.

If the Old Pretenders topping the table is not the most surprising thing of the mid season report, then Heideheim not being at the bottom of the table might be the most surprising, in fact they are solidly in the middle of the table. Darmsatadt, Koln and Mainz are solidly at the bottom and no one will be surprised if all 3 get relegated. Especially now since Union Berlin has come off Strike.

My un-official player of the apertura is Rocco Reitz, based only on the fact that every time I have seen BMG play, he has scored a goal, and all of them were pretty good goals, Florian Wirtz gets an honourable mention, he has been good whenever i have seen him play.

So here is the table at the .473475633 mark of the season

1
Bayer Leverkusen
16 13 3 0 46 12 34 42
2
Bayern Munich
15 12 2 1 49 15 34 38
3
Stuttgart
16 11 1 4 37 19 18 34
4
RB Leipzig
16 10 3 3 38 17 21 33
5
Borussia Dortmund
16 7 6 3 30 25 5 27
6
Eintracht Frankfurt
16 6 6 4 26 20 6 24
7
Hoffenheim
16 7 3 6 32 30 2 24
8
SC Freiburg
16 7 3 6 21 26 -5 24
9 16 6 2 8 25 32 -7 20
10
Wolfsburg
16 6 1 9 20 27 -7 19
11
FC Augsburg
16 4 6 6 24 31 -7 18
12
M'gladbach
16 4 5 7 31 35 -4 17
13
Werder Bremen
16 4 4 8 23 30 -7 16
14
Bochum
16 3 7 6 18 33 -15 16
15
1. FC Union Berlin
15 4 1 10 17 31 -14 13
16
Mainz
16 1 7 8 13 28 -15 10
17
Cologne
16 2 4 10 10 28 -18 10
18
SV Darmstadt 98
16 2 4 10 20 41 -21 10
Last updated: December 22, 2023 10:19am