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Bundesliga Matchday 1 Team of the Week (2024-2025 season) from Bild & Kicker

Here are Bild and Kicker Magazine’s Bundesliga Team of the Week for MD1 of the 2024/25 season. Only three teams won away from home in this round- Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich (both by 3:2 margins) and Heidenheim, who prevailed 2:0 at St Pauli.

Bild Team of the Week (MD1 for 24-25)

Baumann, Drexler, Tah, Kubler, Wirtz, Benes, Stoger, Weiser, Gittens, Kramaric, Majer

Bild Team of the Week Round 1 2024-2025

Kicker Magazine Team of the Week (Round 1)

Grabara, Agu, Sule, Mainka, Kubler, Schoppner, Wirtz, Kramaric, Majer, Kane, Gittens

Kicker Magazin Team of the Week MD1 2024-25

Some similarities between the two teams- both have Kubler, Wirtz, Majer, Kramaric and Gittens (5 common players out of the XI selected). The defences are very different, as can be seen above.

Freiburg Bayern 2:2 Player Ratings 2024 | Neuer and Tel only shining lights for Bayern

FC Bayern’s indifferent recent form continued as they drew 2:2 away at SC Freiburg. These player ratings for Bild suggest the same- only Mathys Tel and Manuel Neuer (with their 2 rating) emerged from the game with some kind of credit. Bayern’s other goal scorer on the evening- Jamal Musiala, got a 3.

On the Freiburg side, Lucas Holer got the perfect 1 rating. It was Holer’s 87th minute equaliser that gave SCF a point in this clash.

Freiburg Bayern 2-2 Player Ratings

Bayern’s next task is their UCL Round of 16 second leg clash against Lazio. The Serie A outfit lead 1:0 from the first leg. They come into this game on the back of a controversial encounter against Milan, where they had three players sent off and lost 1:0

Freiburg, Leverkusen get repeat matchups in UEL Round of 16 draw

The two German sides left in the Europa League have been drawn against the same opponents they played in the group stages of the very competition earlier this season.

Bayer Leverkusen will meet Qarabag, and will be quietly confident of advancing to the last eight, having beaten the Azerbaijan outfit twice already this season. Qarabag had finished runners up behind Leverkusen in the group stages, and eliminated Braga in the playoff knockout round, winning 6:5 on aggregate.

UEL GERMANY

Freiburg have been drawn against English side West Ham, the same team who pipped them to top spot in Group A. While West Ham, like Leverkusen, automatically progressed to the next round, Freiburg had to play the extra playoff round, and they edged French side RC Lens 3:2.

There were no German sides left in the Conference League Round of 16 draw that was also conducted at the same time. Eintracht Frankfurt had lost 4:3 to USG in the playoff round of the competition. Continue reading Freiburg, Leverkusen get repeat matchups in UEL Round of 16 draw