after the break it's a bonus league with nick mckenzie closing out the last match day before the winter break 2nd the last door took on well known berlin on sunday while last place faced frankfurt find out how they fared next. i'm sorry marshall thanks for being with us here on the news i'll be back again. in the light of climate change. for. what's in store. for the future. to make your city. inside.

christmas time double. the fun. most of the business leaders players and staff are making their way home for a well earned mid-season break before still fighting it out for the final 6 points on match day 17 bringing the 1st half the season to a close. face spending the break in the box and 2 if they fail to win against. even worse off they will finish the year in the relegation zone regard less of the

result. and will be wrapping up a crazy campaign so far left it late as they stormed to the bundesliga summit and what's been the tightest title race in a decade. welcome to the bundesliga here on the view i'm nick mechanic line and joining me in the studio for the breakdown of all things the german football are 2 seasoned members of this nigga team welcome to the final show of the press to be here and to my left at mccambridge thank you dixon very festive almost christmas it's good to have you both here let's kick off and there's a lot of who welcomed a team who have taken to the bundesliga like a duck to water after a rough start to their maiden top flight campaign they buckle down and find them some found themselves closer to european places in the relegation zone heading into the final match day. last season just one of the over achieving new boys in the division this time around that has been the story of the new campaign still it was

the side who drew 1st blood in the 38th minute. goal kick was helped along by oliver fink and. how much. of the season. one from the very top draw just google spurs go. on the front foot after the break though just 3 minutes after the restart level parkinson reacted quickest to punish assad. the clearance from the a cinema and give the travelling supporters something to cheer about. just past the hour but underneath was denied by stephan who stopped this rebound before just rudolph finally managed to clear their lines when you were knocking on the door of a 2nd away when the season but those hopes were dashed by eric tommy in the 90th

minute when he stole all 3 points for 40 i substitute tommy with a speculative effort who would you stop progress cabbage off guard and steam off the post. i've got to and to the 1st half of the season for the visitors crucial relegation battle points for the house. to warm the school as just to go for any potential 2 day 6 k. run in the publicity. despite the defeats 20 points in 17 games is a good hole and what a season has been let's start with you tom that was your report tell us what you think it will be said historic season anyway for a new one in the bundesliga their 1st ever season in the top flight and there have been some fantastic highlights so far you know they're flying higher than they expected to be at this stage in the season. home victory of course a very historic moment against bruce your daughter and then of course they'd be had to berlin in the 1st leg of the darby this season they then of course beat their

then table leaders glad back at home so you know doubtless plenty of fun has been had this season. a lot of us have a soft spot for your new team the business league what's been your moment so far well tom touched on a field in there but i think if you asked any and what the best moment was it would have to be one nil victory of a head to berlin on the 2nd of november absolute scenes of incredible atmosphere the l.t. 1st of all that they can actually see their rafael. teach a bitch actually almost scrapping with his own ultras behind the ground trying to get them off the pitch to get the game cinched and just an absolutely fantastic. from sebastopol to a living legend. and of course it is the 1st east meets west indies league it's all been just an incredible occasion for german football and i think actually no matter what happens to anyone in the 2nd half of the season that will live long in the memory of all of their fans it's i mean they've made memories enough so far and you know we've seen stickers start being spread around but including when you're in the capital city champions so you know they're going to be perfectly happy with that

whatever happens in the rest of the season but i don't mean to dampen the mood there's only 5 points between them and the team they lost against today does a lot for in the relegation playoff spots the clubs on the 5 survival right yeah of course definitely and look like i mentioned all of those highlights that they've had so far in the season they've been at home so really one thing that they do need to work on the 2nd half of the season is their away form but if they can stay as strong as they have been at home and pick up a few extra points on the road then i think they're going to be ok remember i live in the table at the moment like you say 5 points above the relegation zone and crucially one point above had to tell me how to balance or their fans are very happy taking one to christmas to we're going to move on now sunday's 2nd match so frankfurt in action the eagles have claimed just one point in the bundesliga beaten by an at the beginning of november bottom of the table part of them seem just right seem just the right remedy for their plight. the last one just league match of 29 team. coach audi which has frankfurt have been banged up by a heavy schedule meanwhile stephan baumgartner padder born want to keep the hope of

leaving the drop zone and i got off to a strong start. bt trying his luck from distance in the 9th minute and he hit the target frankfurt keeper felix of evolved could only watch it go in the last place were having a better game and they made it to neil shortly before the break defender sebastian heading home a free kick patter aborning command out after. he heard his man try to erase the deficit after the restart but the most. they could manage was a consolation goal from past just 21 the final score better born with their 3rd win of the season and the newly promoted team haven't thrown in the towel just yet. with all the games the 2019 done and dusted let's have a look at the table live see our top for the next 4 weeks followed by one of the sub prize packages of the season and as you can see it's incredibly tight just 14

points separate leipzig and outs bergin 10th one of these teams will be 4 there's plenty of work still to be done with a relegation battle for all the sides in the bottom half now for the 1st time since 2009 we have a team other than byron dorgan at the top of the table at mid-season the club and the company behind it have not shied away from the fact they want a title sooner rather than later in life see is this their season and possibly their best chance as well i think absolutely 2 points clear at the top and crucially i think for put points clear or buy in which is sort of the yardstick any budding potential champion is actually measuring themselves against the aspirant 3rd but they are the team that everybody needs to know you know that they need to finish ahead of if they want to win that the bundesliga school more goals than anybody 2nd best offense in the league and in my opinion they've got the best coach somebody that can change a game from apps you know where we saw that last week it gets pretty dortmund and also of course he scored 18 goals in 17 games and i think they can and may win the

league if he stays fit you mentioned the coach that's who i want to hear from now this is what i had to say after saturday's game. it's good for self-confidence is always good to start the 2nd half of the season or having to leave position in the league we have a lot of situation where it can improve and i'm looking forward to improve my team and get better and played nearly also a good 2nd half a season like we did in the 1st of. the roughhousing who was successful in his 1st seasons at the club but you cannot dismiss seems to be a different caliber was he the missing link all along you know what i mean was he brought quite a bit of fresh energy into lots of he has of course bill on housing whose work i think a couple of things that are really important a lot to so far this season ed touched on one is tactical versatility he's able to you know change the system within a game to react to different conditions as we saw against dortmund and he also of course has been getting the best out of his players so anybody who saw how surge cannot be developed under him hoffenheim you know understands why team is doing so

well this season and those 2 things are going to be crucial once again forward they are very successful but will that be. the will they be the victim of their own success is possible i think it's very likely that models now will move on some point if he does win the win the plan is they would like to take a lot talk at him maybe someday but i should think you'd leave the league you know if you've already won the bundesliga with one of the underdogs it's almost a bit of a you know lead balloon if you can just take over the team expected to win every season but i think you know possibly they're losing but i think they take that if they won the league this year that be willing to lose the coach i think i would have to south and think there's too much reason for not was going to go because you know lots of is one of the most exciting places to be in sporting terms if you will a young manager who's developing something new in german and in european football at the moment and i was 9 is very young he's got a long career ahead of him so i think you know they obviously love him in lights. for him i see no reason to hurry out of their coaches are in high demand we've seen

klopp and some other german coaches in the u.k. but quite possibly want to have as many as their future. but that is the future let's talk about the present credit where it is dubai and of had a horrible 1st half of the season by their standards but he's turned things around . he'll be in charge until the end of the season as the top of have announced it on sunday after being down and out the back in the running i think they're absolutely back in the money that you can rule out the team is what the last 7000000000 is league titles in a row they're only 4 points off the top they're in 3rd place it's been a disastrous season but by and standards but not by most club standards and we've seen the top of the league changed so much that it was slow bicycle race they'll be a lot of twists and turns still to go and i think a lot of the very good chance of winning this because they. reckon if this happens quite often the coach is brought in he has a good run he's told he's allowed to stay for longer and there's a dip in form and he's gone what is hands you fix for what's going to i mean he certainly they're going to be going to be down to the end of the season now and

collins from a good came out and said that the club have been more than satisfied with his work so far so if it continues to you know produce the results that by munich astroid strive to achieve then i see no reason why you shouldn't stay a little bit longer he does lack a little bit of experience and obviously let's you know make no bones about it he's in the most high stakes job in german football he's going to get fired. there are no lights 8 well the club to say i want to summon the likes of pep guardiola some along those lines but i don't see them getting anyone like that but there are 17 days to go we'll see how does it by munich that's almost all from us here on the bonus league but before we go we have an announcement to make after 4 years of bringing the highlights and talking points from germany's top flight this will be the last ever the bundesliga show in generally january go find a program in this timeslot called sports life and a revamped version of kickoff life will be bringing sports and football stories from around the globe. you will see it again though on the w.

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