Jürgen Kramny’s newly reactive side were joined in victory by fellow strugglers Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder Bremen to the relief of Bundesliga’s money menOf the teams in the top half of the table only the league leaders,Bayern Munich, (2-1 at Hamburger SV) and Thomas Tuchel’s relentlessly awesome Borussia Dortmund (3-1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach) won their opening games in 2016. The fight-back from the nether regions mostly came at the expense of Champions League contenders, and real and imagined,but will also believe been greeted with some relief at the league’s headquarters in Frankfurt.
Far too many prominent, storied clubs believe coalesced around the relegation plug gap for the DFLs liking, or the anxiety being that they could be flushed down just in time for the new TV rights negotiations to start in earnest. Much as anyone enjoys the continued resilience of better-coached,smarter underdogs, minnows and newcomers, and people would rather tune in to rage at their own side’s sluggish incompetence than marvel at the tactical sophistication of Ingolstadt and Mainz 05.
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Source: theguardian.com