Borussia Mönchengladbach

Test match Swansea vs Borussia M'gladbach

Swansea: Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Kyle Bartley, Ashley Williams (capt), Franck Tabanou, Jay Fulton, Ki Sung-Yueng, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Nathan Dyer, Andre Ayew, Bafe Gomis.

Borussia (1. Half): Sippel – Jantschke, Brouwers, Elvedi, Nkansah – Stindl, Schulz – Traoré, Ritter – Raffael, Hahn
Borussia (2. Half): Sippel – Korb, Christensen, Elvedi, Nkansah – Dahoud, Sow – Traoré (69. Ndenge), Ritter – Hrgota, Drmic

Goals:
14.) 1:0 - Ibrahima Traoré
68.) 1:1 - Grimes  

FT - Swansea 1:1 Borussia M'gladbach

In the second half, Borussia played with a veritable kindergarden - their team was younger than their normal U23 team (after Ndenge came on, the average age of the Gladbach players on the pitch was 20.45 years)

http://www.borussia.de/de/aktuelles-termine/news/borussia-news/news-detailansicht.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=14394&cHash=c8412d774c4e6b8fc6262718327ffa0c
http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article/friendly-borussia-monchengladbach-v-swans-2503456.aspx

Test match Borussia M'gladbach vs Stade Rennes

Borussia (1. Half): Heimeroth - Jantschke, Nordtveit, Christensen, Ndenge - G.Xhaka, Schulz - I.Traoré, Ritter - Raffael, Hrgota
Borussia (2. Half): Heimeroth - Korb, Brouwers, Nkansah, Wendt - Stindl, Dahoud - Herrmann, Sow - Drmić, Hahn

Stade Rennes: Benoît Costil - Fallou Diagne, Mexer, Sylvain Armand - Romain Danzé, Yacouba Sylla, Benjamin André, Ludovic Baal - Kamil Grosicki, Pedro Henrique - Giovanni Sio

Goals:
07.) 1:0 - Granit Xhaka
31.) 1:1 - Pedro Henrique
44.) 1:2 - Sylvain Armand (PK)
67.) 2:2 - Josip Drmić

FT - Borussia M'gladbach 2:2 Stade Rennes

Source: http://torfabrik.de/profis/borussia/datum/2015/07/18/22-gegen-stade-rennes.html

Test match Borussia M'gladbach vs Standard de Liège

Borussia (1. Half): Sommer - Korb, Brouwers, Nkansah, Wendt - Stindl, Dahoud - Herrmann, Sow - Raffael, Drmić
Borussia (2. Half): Sommer - Jantschke, Nordtveit, Christensen, Dominguez - Schulz, Xhaka - Traoré, Ritter - Hahn, Hrgota

Standard de Liège: Thuram, Dussaut, Fiore, Arslanagic, Van Damme, Knockaert, Faty, De Sart, Trebel, Kasmi, Santini.

Goals:
02.) 1:0 - Josip Drmic
16.) 1:1 - Ricardo Faty
86.) 2:1 - Branimir Hrgota

FT - Borussia M'gladbach 2:1 Standard de Liège

Source: http://torfabrik.de/profis/borussia/datum/2015/07/19/borussia-schlaegt-standard-luettich-21.html

Test match Borussia M'gladbach vs FC Porto

Borussia: Sommer - Jantschke, Schulz, Christensen, Wendt (77. Korb) - G.Xhaka (80. Sow), Dahoud - Herrmann (65. Ritter), I.Traoré - Stindl, Raffael (75. Drmić)

FC Porto: Casillas; Ricardo, Maicon, Marcano, Cote; Danilo, André André, Evandro, Sérgio Oliveira; Tello, Aboubakar

Goals:
20.) 1:0 - Lars Stindl (assist by Patrick Herrmann)
39.) 2:0 - Ibrahima Traoré (assist by Raffael)
49.) 2:1 - Aboubakar



FT - Borussia M'gladbach 2:1 FC Porto

Luckily this was only a test match as the referee Guido Winkmann seemed to be still on vacation and favoured FC Porto a lot in the first half (no booking against them despite commiting rougher fouls, penalty against Porto no given etc.). In the second half, the match slowly petered out a bit.


Yann Sommer + Iker Casillas

Test match Borussia M'gladbach vs Bursaspor in Herne

Borussia: Tobias Sippel (46. Christofer Heimeroth) - Julian Korb (75. Tony Jantschke), Roel Brouwers, Martin Stranzl (60. Marvin Schulz), Alvaro Dominguez (60. Andreas Christensen) - Djibril Sow, Håvard Nordtveit (75. Mahmoud Dahoud) - Marlon Ritter, Tsiy-William Ndenge - Josip Drmic, Branimir Hrgota (75. Ibrahima Traoré)
Bench: Lars Stindl

Bursaspor: Harun Tekin, Erdem Özgenç, Serdar Aziz, Tomas Sivok, Emre Taşdemir, Cristobal Jorquera, Ozan Tufan, Volkan Şen, Filipe Josue, Cedric Bakambu, Tomas Necid
Bench: Mert Günok, Okan Kocuk, Muhammed Şengezer, Ertuğrul Ersoy, Sedat Berisha, Aziz Behich, Şamil Çinaz, Bakaye Traore, Aydın Karabulut, Ozan İpek, Oğuz Han Aynaoğlu, Furkan Soyalp, Bekir Yılmaz, Kenan Uz, Enes Ata


Weather in Herne: Heavy rain and storm up to 100km/h. No fun!

Goals:
31.) 0:1 - Cedric Bakambu
58.) 1:1 - Josip Drmić (PK)
64.) 1:2 - Cristobal Jorquera
81.) 2:2 - Marlon Ritter (assist by Josip Drmić)

FT - Borussia M'gladbach 2:2 Bursaspor

Is Gladbach's game with us on German TV at all? i ask because if it's on any station at all then i will likely be able to stream it.

Not on German Free TV, sorry. Sport1 show Köln vs Stoke instead. You can only view it on Gladbach's Fohlen.TV who will stream it, but sadly you need to pay for that.

Someone will likely rip it if that's the case, shouldn't be too hard to find off the usual sites.

Cheers RWO

Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Oh, and by the way - today it's Borussia's 115th birthday!

Yeah our official twitter account mentioned it, happy birthday to them them

I look forward to the game, first pre season game i have watched I expect Gladbach to win though, they are better than us.

Köln vs Stoke is transmitted to TV and Newcastle vs Gladbach is not, in spite of being 10 times more attractive.

@Mole
Well, Gladbach still have 10 days until they have to play the first competitive match against FC St.Pauli (DFB-Pokal 1st round), so they are possibly not at 100% yet either. We'll see how the match will develop! Sadly, Martin Stranzl is missing out injured, and this means the defense lacks their captain.

@Vlad
I suspect that Sport1 prefers the Köln match as it is in Germany and thus less expensive for them to produce.

I'm pretty sure there are a few strong reasons why Sport1 prefers the Köln match, but for me as a neutral fan it's a disappointment. Nothing we can do.

Yeah it's at our stadium, i doubt they would want to go through the expenses of doing that.

Understandable tbf.

Vlad the Impaler wrote:I'm pretty sure there are a few strong reasons why Sport1 prefers the Köln match, but for me as a neutral fan it's a disappointment. Nothing we can do.

Usually "money" is the strongest reason of them all, and there is not much money to be gained with test matches of cloubs that are not Real, Barca, Bayern, ManUtd etc -_-

Line-up of BMG against Newcastle:

Test match Newcastle United vs Borussia M'gladbach

Newcastle United: Krul; Janmaat (61. Mbemba), Williamson, Taylor, Haidara; Anita (76. de Jong), Colback; Sissoko (81. Perez), Obertan (61. Aarons), Wijnaldum; Cisse (61. Mitrovic).

Borussia M'gladbach: Sommer – Jantschke (76. Brouwers), Schulz (76. Nordtveit), Christensen, Wendt (61. Dominguez) – Dahoud (61. Johnson), Xhaka (76. Korb) – Herrmann (61. Drmic), Traoré (84. Ritter) – Stindl, Raffael (61. Hazard).

Goals:
66.) 0:1 - Thorgan Hazard (assist by Lars Stindl)

FT - Newcastle United 0:1 Borussia M'gladbach

Lucien Favre walks on new paths as he decided that he won't nominate one player as team captain for the season. He stated that he is going to give the captain's armband to the player he considers appropriate before each match, just as he already did for the test matches in the pre-season.

The players are fine with the idea. Granit Xhaka commented that in the team no one acts up as big boss anyway.

The "captain's armband rotation" is a completely new idea in the Bundesliga as no other club ever did that before.

Source: http://bazonline.ch/sport/fussball/favre-sorgt-fuer-novum-in-deutschland/story/14072470

Not sure I agree with that.

For example, when John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy around 2010, a few players came out and said that even without the armband, he was still the leader on the field.

And the exact same thing would happen with us, regardless of who had the armband, Terry would be our leader.

Which means that Favre either doesn't think the side has a leader in it, or regardless of who has the armband, the same person is going to do the leading.

I can't see a different player opting to lead the team one game, just because he is named captain, and then not doing the same in another because he wasn't named captain. That just sounds lazy and downright silly.

And if they don't see any one player as a leader, why not build one? Someone young who could stay long term, like Jantschke, Herrmann or Sommer?

Well, I think Lucien Favre takes into account the amount of rotation he uses for his field players. The only player who played each match was Yann Sommer, while the field players all were rotated heavily.

If they go for the player who is the one who takes the lead on the pitch, it would be Granit Xhaka, but as he collects bookings like other people collect stamps, he is suspended ever so often and thus he probably wouldn't be the best choice to wear the armband.

Martin Stranzl and Tony Jantschke, who would also be candidates, miss out many matches either due to injuries or heavy rotation, so the armband would go to someone else anyway. The same goes for Patrick Herrmann who usually was either subbed in or subbed out early most of the time.

I guess this would indeed leave Yann Sommer as best viable option, but I have no idea how Favre thinks of Goalies as team captain.

So I guess the armband would likely go to many different players in any case, so why bothering naming one player...

So why not name a club captain and a group of vice captains? Instead of rotating?

I think that is something only the enigmatic coach can answer

(Personally, my vote would go to Yann Sommer anyway )

Talking about my favourite Goalie - he's totally looking forward to the match against St.Pauli:

Spoiler:

LOL, one guy (not the tennis player, just a namesake, btw) who played FM15 got sacked by the virtual Borussia M'gladbach and complained to the real Borussia - and was pretty surprised that he actually got an answer:



http://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/gamer-shocked-at-gladbach-sacking.jsp

DFB-Pokal 1st Round - Monday 10 Oct 2015

FC St.Pauli vs Borussia M'gladbach

FC St.Pauli: Himmelmann - Nehrig, Ziereis, Gonther, Buballa - Alushi, Rzatkowski - Choi (79. Litka), Maier (70. Verhoek), Sobota - Thy

Borussia MG: Sommer - Jantschke, Schulz, Christensen, Wendt - Stindl, Xhaka (87. Dahoud) - Traoré (84. Herrmann), Johnson - Raffael, Drmić (77. Hazard)

Spoiler:

Goals:
33.) 1:0 - Marc Rzatkowski (assist by Waldemar Sobotka)
54.) 1:1 - Lars Stindl (assist by Ibrahima Traoré)
56.) 1:2 - Ibrahima Traoré (assist by Lars Stindl)
67.) 1:3 - Lars Stindl
86.) 1:4 - Thorgan Hazard (assist by Raffael)

FT - FC St.Pauli 1:4 Borussia M'gladbach

Bundesliga Matchday 1 - 15 Aug 2015

Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia M'gladbach

Borussia Dortmund: R.Bürki - Piszczek, Sokratis, Hummels, Schmelzer - Weigl - Reus (78. Kampl), Gündogan, Kagawa (85. Sven Bender), Mkhitaryan - Aubameyang (78. Ramos)

Borussia Mönchengladbach: Sommer - Jantschke, M.Schulz, Christensen, Wendt - Stindl, G.Xhaka (79. Dahoud) - I.Traore (65. P.Herrmann), F.Johnson - Raffael, Drmic (66. T.Hazard)

Spoiler:

Goals:
15.) 1:0 - Marco Reus
21.) 2:0 - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
33.) 3:0 - Henrikh Mkhitaryan
50.) 4:0 - Henrikh Mkhitaryan

FT - Borussia Dortmund 4:0 Borussia Mönchengladbach

In the last 17 years, Gladbach only managed to win once in Dortmund, and this year was no exception


Totally not amused today

They are now showing German League too . Dortmund was so good to watch .