the attention of the famous naturalist and explorer. to soon will bring to the public some dough from humble 250 if they were working on a voyage of discovery. expedition boyd. up. christmas comes a couple of days early this year for life to cool our top of the table with the winter break for the 1st time ever a seasonal kids' tour of new york was at marginally predictable. if you have to

simply to position at least. most of the things you did well. it's christmas time and there's been a lot of gift giving buyers have ceded cohen school or already this season which has at least made the bundesliga much more exciting. place to much festive cheer from him. to him potter now back. is indeed muslims mice is almost as mundane. a surprise package under the christmas tree our mission plucked off the 2nd place team at the mid-season break has gone on to win the title 9 times in bundesliga history to the falls have a real chance. now it's christmas we enjoy these 2 weeks and i don't mean to keep going to the market. time to look forward to christmas and the winter break but this yuletide will be one of mixed emotions for dortmund as they ponder how to stop throwing. away points just

a job ish who goldish political indeed the winter champions ignited by an nor dortmund welcome to kick off. a year ago dortmund were clear at the top of the table but 2019 has not been kind to the black and yellow those at the end of the 1st half of the season there are 7 points off the lead despite their quality squad dogman have dropped too many points in fact from winning positions they've let a lesson point slip the coach is all too aware of the problem. such as it's unbelievable the points we've lost this believe it will be obvious dortmund have 12 points fewer than at this stage last term this comes despite strengthening significantly in the close season they began the campaign with

a clear goal the title. although dog once football is often easy on the eye playing like this won't help them win the championship. against half an arm the game panned out like so many for daughter on this season they dominated their opponents with their class repeatedly shining through and now they are gazza standing in for injured captain marco voice grabbed the opener on 17 minutes. i thought months continue to pile on the pressure and produced a wave after wave of attacks particularly from the right hand side ashraf hakimi had his chances. as did talk and as i have in the 39th minute but that precious 2nd goal proved evasive. sometimes a team are just unlucky or come up against a good goalkeeper like only 5 pounds. dortmund lead one millet the break but it

should have been a lot more. does is the height that stupid that has to be said clearly. we had the chances to score a 2nd goal a 3rd even and thought we should have crossed the poll more rather than half shooting or those all. perhaps the immaturity of the team was to blame would a more experienced hakimi have set up a teammate here. or perhaps lucianne father's decision not to recruit another center forward in the summer as part of the problem some fairly straight forward chances went begging. we had so much attacking verb i think we had something like 8 corners to none but our finishing was poor. and so dortmund snatched defeat from the jaws of victory they gave away what seemed to be a nailed on 3 points on 79 minutes

a downey and levelled with half an himes 1st real chance. look at those faces there not the faces of title winners. just like against leipzig in the 33 draw last week dortmund lost control of the game within the space of a few minutes. and they come out each with a winner for half an eye in the 87th minute. and again the leakiest defense among the bonus league as top teams conceded 2 goals out of nothing. within 8 minutes dogman had somehow surrendered a game they should never of lost points yet again thrown away. beating them up but we have fewer points than we should have from the last 2 games we have one point instead of 6 we've been sloppy in the 1st half of the sea. both

are feeling a loss for sure i can guess how many points we've lost stupidly lost. causes daily. the mid-season break is upon us a time for dortmund to regroup and say goodbye to a cursed 2019 somehow they have to try to move forward and stop being so consistently inconsistent. young man who has exploded onto the scene josh was e.x.t. 8 minutes played 8 touches of the ball and 2 goals scored. those are the fruits of his 1st 2 games for biron manic just like last week against 5 working rescued a win for the champions against both scored again just a minute after coming on and with his 1st touch. christmas fairy tale stuff from

byron the 18 year old dutchman with a yuletide miracle right on cue. problems to remain though the baryons cannot be happy with the 1st half of the season it's their worst and 9 years their 3rd in the table. at the hands of a click button do seem much more relaxed and on saturday they again bossed 70 percent of possession but points have still dharma straight. let's check the stats former coach nico kovacs had a points per game ratio of $1.00 with flick it's $2.00. but without the z.x. effect it would be $1.00. there are still big gaps and barons defense and opponents are getting chances are. sport we're not cool headed enough to take advantage.

of shall victorious so close to scoring just before the half time whistle. baron have also been hit by a raft of injuries the season. having martinez became number 7 his replacement jumbo tang was the only recognised 1st team player on the bench. it was looking like both sport might manage a draw thomas mother arrived too late here. while continued likewise then failed to find the net. i. with few options flick rolled the dice and turned to you know who won 85 minutes. there's a reason why is it see has 35 on his back. is not meant to be in the 1st team yet he's just a kid at 18. but he wasn't getting the savior one nil to buy and i

have only a 4 joshua. the teenager would also turn out for the reserve team a day later but here's a barron's christmas was already made. for man a while noir xeroxing is becoming a cult hero. to you he's a positive guy and at the same time quite shy as he so young miss out on the pitch he shows what he's made of as we've seen in the last 2 games. and that joshua effect has a broader impact to parents' relief allowed sayres to now play to make it to no later on of i the game was typical of fire in the season dominant but sometimes struggling to convert that supremacy into a win. was to the last 2 losses against the political and they put us behind but apart from the things we played good football. no the last couple of

games showed character to come back and i think the race is still opened. we would have liked to hear from 60 but byron are keeping him incommunicado. his impact has been huge though the win meant byron confirmed flic as coach until the end of the season his bosses are all smiles. transit is doing a good job we're very happy with the development of the team and how we communicate so openly it's very pleasing. flick has conjured up a youth player who can make a difference his faith in super sub 0 is quite possibly the best argument for him staying. by and celebrate with lots of christmas cheer the champions may only be 3rd at mid-season break but they are both dortmund and where people wearing to go for the 2nd half of the campaign.

in 5th took on freiburg in 6 who would have imagined that before the season started at the halfway mark they are both perhaps over achieving but wanted to head into the break on a hot. shot that dominated early on with sweat so dark especially influential. $12.00 with benito rahman there was the opening goal after 26 minutes. to stanch twice vyborg just couldn't get going but that changed 10 minutes after half time the video assistant referee spotted a foul in the area. miss patterson converted to make it $11.00 he is now the club's joint record scorer. chang hong kong was then a 1st unfortunate for freiburg but his luck changed. when memoranda brought him

down. the chance of grief i stepped up to take this one super cool. to one to freiburg. shall coach david wagner needed a plan and fast it was looking like a very undeserved defeat. substitute after my 22 she was the answer is the whole 10 minutes from time sealing a draw we conceded 2 penalties the serve penalties but the situations we gave too easy way this is a little bit. what i have to moan about about anything else i think was quite good in the end both teams and for the christmas holidays in good spirits. after the 5 nil triumph and braman minds entertained leave a person in fine form they continued where they left off with some excellent play but this time the finishing touch was missing. 20 minutes from the labor couzens

when del received a 2nd booking but instead of wilting they were close and shrugged off the setback. stoppage time they snatched the points thanks to lucas audio smash and grab. their greyman are in a real mess while cologne are suddenly on a high. the hosts took the lead from their 1st big chance of one with a 1. 39 minutes gone a win would put them 3 points above graeme in the table. next to bottom visitors pushed but it was all in vain. new come on coach marcos his tone has now picked up and unexpected 9 points in 8 days the billy goats are clear of the relegation zone. and could now enjoy the festive period.

for tuna dusseldorf were also looking to take advantage of breman shocking form against promoted in berlin the home side broke the deadlock proven henning's on sunday 8 minutes what a strike that was. but coach return phone could do the job wasn't done. shortly after the restart when you and grabbed that deserved equaliser through patterns on the game was certainly up for grabs. and the winner came in stoppage time doesn't do us ever told me unleashing us more of a shot that flew off the post and into the net. for sure enough with the good fortune just in time for christmas q some extra special celebration suspect climb out of the automatic drop zone football's just child's play sometimes.

bottom side part of born needed a christmas boost in their clash with time tough to frankfurt. the fireworks before kick off ended up being matched inside the stadium. the struggling visitors looked jaded and underdogs patter born were ready to pounce i still have made some beauties own rocket put part of 11 mil ahead. but it takes a lot to get patted on coach stephan baumgartner excited even though frankfurt had not won in 6 games. before the break promoted part of born doubled their lead courtesy of sebastian shown now. the hosts had a real chance of just a 3rd win in the league this. things and. bad had

a point peaked too early they had a full 2nd have to endure a possible frankford onslaught. and it came and eventually frankfurt pulled one back through past tossed. his birth goal of the league campaign. in the end got a born got over the line precious 3 points for christmas which will fuel hopes that they can escape the drop. glove box for visitors to the capital that had no real chance of taking top spot because of a vastly inferior goal difference to leipsic. and that shouldn't take away from what has been a great 1st half of the season for the foals their best since the 1970 s. they even lead the pack for 7 match days but are they able to mount

a real tilt for the title. their biggest strength is defense only 18 goals conceded that's the joint lowest number in the current season catarrh berlin we're going to have their work cut out. glad also threatened sporadically. going close here in the 39th minute but generally the visitors didn't show enough against the team and 12 players. the finish and a bit of guile were lacking to him has 6 goals this term to top the scoring ranks but it wasn't to be his day. even though we want to have more and we are young we need to do more as well we didn't get our syria it's not our best performance today and now we come to this point that we have like a constant really consumed weeks in the in the futures. down tough coach marcos one of the austrian leading the last 2 seasons with sides pork butt. when the german

league his side will have to win the stuart of away games they're the best home team in the league but an 8 away games they want only 4 to leipsic 6. plenty to work on in 2020. what might help is that car out of both the german cup and europa league. they can concentrate on the broadest they get in the 2nd half of the season. but in berlin could easily have lost. your game klinsmann's help to had chances to win they've stabilized under the germany legend with 8 points from the last 4 matches. on bishan is to climb up as soon as possible in the table and and then also all start to play a more or taking a more. you know in detaining type of football right now it's more defensive side

of it ended nil nil here to head into christmas the happier the 3rd game in a row without conceding. gladbach on the other hand no they should have produced more an attack their elevated position on the table has raised expectations possibly too high they're still a work in progress. in those on the last to say the team of worked hard and we found a good 1st half of the season when it now after a few days' rest we have to get back out and show we want more when i'm from l. and. wanting more is the right answer but was this team have to buck up and buckle up because here comes the winter champions. could this be the season for rb like sick with biron endorsements. ogling this is

the chance for the red bull back team. might not be particularly loved across germany but new champions come aim would be welcomed by many people dislike of fans . so what suggests likes it really can do it. to one they have team of their own with a team goals and 7 assists so far. and the 23 year old is getting better and better . byron stop at 11 doffs to use only one goal ahead of him in the bundesliga scoring charts. lights it also have the most prolific overall attack in the league they look more dynamic than last season and opponents are getting more desperate to stop them i don't worry it looks worse than it was. but at home against in-form alex park lot 6 suffered an early shock on 8 minutes.

but no they are needed less now. don't forget our sport had won 5 of their last 6 games. but light city in contrast to dortmund right now seem to have the medal to recover from such setbacks we discussed about enough time that we need a patient and then play the same style in the 1st half and then the goals will come on their own in the 2nd half of pressure get higher and higher and they always have the feeling that. you can score and get the lead. midway through the 2nd half lights a glove old. can have lima with the ball. lots of have all the right ingredients owners with serious financial clout a top infrastructure and one of the world's best young coaches. the bad press is. they are now girls man's hallmark just like gautam and under your gun

club. there is another big reason for leipzig being genuine title contenders this season they have a classic target man up front. by the czech international patrick shake made it to one of the best def goal in only 8 games for lights and. this edition has made like 6 squads of the complete. will it be enough for the title. in the winter mean nothing so. we have to continue like this also in next year and we'll see in the summer. tempo is also key to this like 16 they can be devastating when switching to attack . the use of force then with the final goal of 31.

this season they're flying but like 6 rivals will also worry that they haven't even reached their full potential yet. many of the players are still in their early twenty's and their coach is only a little bit older. looking forward to improve my team and to get better and to play nearly also a good 2nd half a season like we did in the 1st set of barmy leipzig or in the last 16 of the german cup and the champions league and sit top of the bundesliga for the winter break what a delightful christmas present. so here's a look at those results away from the victims part of born and the year on a high with their 3rd point of the season made those christmas bells jingle meanwhile it's almost a case of bells ringing at doth not butt. now

a few firsts from this season. this was the 1st of 465 goals so far this season scored by who else on that level d'arcy yet again the league's leading striker. but the most assists came from a man many have written off thomas miller with 11. meanwhile can you guess which 2 sides have the best defensive record we know about glass but both borg are tied with them with just 18 goals conceded. the down let's sneak a peek at the end of the year table. so leipzig right at the top in the last 10 years the winter champions have gone on to win the title 7 times by our north 3rd dortmund are level on points with shanika it's set to be a thrilling 2nd half of the season. and in the 2nd half of the table part of born

are still bottom but braman in frankfurt have slid deeper into trouble meanwhile cologne are surging but will leave you with so many good leaders. of the 2019 winter champions are the lights and they don't look as happy as they should be but it is only halfway through the season. their mascot really looks ready for a christmas party while like 6 coaches keeping his cool. bit of money had run it so i would assume because we're not going to get up a subordinate is in line is if you lead the way at the mid-season break for the 1st time in the club's short history. they don't get too excited despite christmas crackers like this one. there were another something is so. in the moment. this moment i think i mean nothing bad when there is so i don't know

how the season. modern footballers are taught to keep their feet on the ground but surely leipsic can dream a little this christmas after all they didn't really exist just 10 years ago and are now on top of the bundesliga last season's greetings and i'm happy new year kick up.

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