Leipzig are moving gently towards making inroads into the current hegemony as Borussia Dortmund fail to step up
There has, for some time, been a deal of irritation in parts of Germany’s football-following community over the international marketing of Bayern Munich’s clashes with Borussia Dortmund as Der Klassiker. The epithet can’t truly pretend to be equivalent to its Spanish – or even French – counterpart, being more a way of framing Bayern versus current next best than reference to some historical struggle.
That Dortmund have grown into their role in the would-be rivalry is a post-2013 Champions League construct, a natural fit with BVB’s own global appeal and their consistent pitching up just shy of throwing distance from Bayern’s windows. What repercussions would it have, though, if they were no longer Bayern’s greatest irritant?
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"A beautiful team goal!"
Leipzig stun Bayern again with some devastating link up play finished off by Forsberg pic.twitter.com/50J9NXHdqs
Thomas Muller always delivers!
Bayern forward leaps to head home the leveller in six-goal thriller vs. Leipzig pic.twitter.com/ckGS9nnvCx
Hertha Berlin 3-1 FC Union Berlin, Arminia Bielefeld 2-1 Mainz, Cologne 2-2 Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1 Borussia Dortmund, SC Freiburg 2-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich 3-3 RB Leipzig, Werder Bremen 1-2 Stuttgart, Schalke 0-3 Bayer Leverkusen
Have you ever seen anything like this?
The simplest of finishes for Stuttgart's Silas Wamangituka...
Bremen didn't like it and he was duly booked for unsportsmanlike conduct pic.twitter.com/6uaP5XRASG