Bundesliga best 11 from SPOX.com

here is the Bundesliga best 11 from the first half of the season, voted by 150.000 users:



those who follow the BL, do you agree? I think its ok, though i think Schweinsteiger didn't make enough games to be in there.


the full vote:

goalkeepers:
Ter Stegen 34,4 percent - Ulreich 25,1 - Neuer 21,6 - Leno 13,1 - Unnerstall 3,1 - Rensing 2,6 - Zieler 1,5 - Jentzsch 0,6

right back:
Piszczek 51,0 percent - Rafinha 17,8 - Jantschke 10,1 - Sokratis 6,0 - Chandler 5,5 - Boulahrouz 3,8 - Lell 3,1 - Johnson 2,7

CB:
Hummels 36,1 percent - Badstuber 18,8 - Dante 15,1 - Santana 7,2 - van Buyten 5,2 - Höwedes 4,7 - Papadopoulos 3,6 - Naldo 3,6 - Stranzl 2,9 - Maza 2,8

left-back:
Lahm 52,5 percent - Fuchs 21,0 - Schmelzer 9,3 - Daems 8,3 - Molinaro 5,0 - Ignjovski 2,1 - Schäfer 1,0 - Kadlec 0,8

DM:
Schweinsteiger 40,8 percent - Sven Bender 21,4 - Lars Bender 8,9 - Kvist 7,5 - Tymoschtschuk 6,5 - Holtby 4,7 - Neustädter 3,7 - Jones 2,5 - Nordtveit 2,4 - Schmiedebach 1,6

right-middlefield:
Götze 53,4 percent - Müller 20,2 - Farfan 8,0 - Herrmann 6,4 - Harnik 5,4 - Töre 4,6 - Sam 1,2 - Stindl 0,8

left-middlefield:
Ribery 74,8 percent - Arango 9,4 - Großkreutz 6,0 - Draxler 4,3 - Schürrle 2,0 - Pander 1,2 - Jansen 1,2 - Hunt 1,1

OM:
Kroos 64,8 percent - Raul 17,7 - Kagawa 8,1 - Ballack 3,7 - Raffael 1,8 - Ivanschitz 1,4 - Hajnal 1,4 - Firmino 1,1

striker:
Gomez 40,6 percent - Reus 23,3 - Lewandowski 14,5 - Huntelaar 10,2 - Podolski 6,2, - Pizarro 3,9 - Abdellaoue 0,5 - Hanke 0,4 - Schlaudraff 0,2 - Cisse 0,2

Raul>>>>>Kroos

Beast of a lineup. I'd pick Reus ahead of Goetze, though.

Arangod behind Ribéry

Looks pretty good to me. Ter Stegen was really great this season so far.

Should look like this in my opinion:


Ballack should be there in my opinion instead of Bender, but im afraidit would bedefensively weak with a Kroos-Ballack mid. Still, I think Ballack deserves it.

How come the best playmaking goalkeeper ever aka God aka The Chosen One aka Neuer is not in the XI?

Piggy didnt play much to be there....and Reus missing is an abomination. Raul, Podolski and Huntelaar were also great and should somehow be fitted in.

omarish wrote:How come the best playmaking goalkeeper ever aka God aka The Chosen One aka Neuer is not in the XI?

Because the defense was so good until the Schweini injury, that he barely had anything to do.

Ter Stegen plays with a very meh defense in front of him and has made impressive saves pretty much every game.

ter Stegen was the best goalkeeper so far

rwo power wrote:Looks pretty good to me. Ter Stegen was really great this season so far.

Ter Stegen = Oliver Kahn

omarish wrote:How come the best playmaking goalkeeper ever aka God aka The Chosen One aka Neuer is not in the XI?

Because Neuer had comparatively little to do as the Bayern defense was rather solid. Ter Stegen and Ulreich on the other hand were forced time after time to make spectacular saves and that is more eye-catching. Moreover, ter Stegen is a kid of just 19, so he gets the baby bonus.
But frankly, he was one of the main reasons that M'gladbach avoided relegation last season and that they are currently in the CL spots of the BL.

Eep. Just saw that Sushi already replied to that, too. That should teach me to first read all of a thread before replying.

Completely agree with the ter Stegen getting in over Neuer......beast of a keeper he is....unlucky that he and Neuer are apart of the same generation of keepers....

Also fully agree on Badstuber partnering Hummels....he's still slow, but his positioning has improved markedly and his reading of the game is top class at his age as well.

Ter Stegen is 19

Germany has an amazing crop of goalkeeper youngsters atm.
Marc-André ter Stegen (19)
Bernd Leno (19)
Sven Ulreich (23)
Ron-Robert Zieler (22)
Lars Unnerstall (22)
Ralf Fährmann (23)
Kevin Trapp (21)
And Manuel Neuer isn't exactly an oldie either

Have we ever been short of keeper talent?

also, I'm pretty sure an EPL best 11 wouldn't include 9 Englishmen.

COME AT ME PREMBRO's

Gotze is a frickin beast. BVB have some of the best young players..

I've heard Arango has been GOAT this season.

Holtby has turned into a DM?

Godmez or Huntelaar?

Same strike rate in a "worse" team.

Oh and @ OP.

Schweinsteiger is the reason that Neuer didn't make the list.

ragbirjosh wrote:Raul>>>>>Kroos

Kroos has been one of the best players across Europe this season.I think he deserves it.

is this arango the arango of mallorca?

Suprised with rafinha's progress at bayern. At genoa he seemed average at best

diptiman wrote: is this arango the arango of mallorca?

Yea the same dude.Has a great left foot.

So Neuer isn't even the best GK in BL? Or is ter Stegen recently crowned best GK in teh world?