2016/17 CL Playoff: Borussia M'gladbach vs BSC Young Boys

2016/17 CL Playoff 1st Leg: BSC Young Boys vs Borussia M'gladbach

Venue: Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Bern in Switzerland



The Young Boys of Bern are one of the top teams of the Swiss Super League at the moment and with 14000 members, they are actually even the largest football club in Switzerland (FCB only has 7544 members as of 2016/08/06).

After they surprisingly managed to defeat Shakhtar Donezk on penalties in the 3rd qualification round, YB ended as unseeded team for the CL Quali Play-offs and drew Borussia M'gladbach who incidently slipped into the seeded part of the Champions path only because of Shakhtar Donezk's elimination.

Gladbach and YB just met three weeks ago during pre-season in the 52nd Uhrencup, which is one of the international friendly club tournaments with the longest tradition in Europe. In this match, Gladbach won on penalties after they drew 3:3 in regular time.

The first leg will be played on Tuesday 16 August 2016 and the match will be broadcast by ZDF and thus be available as free stream at zdf.de. People outside of Germany will need a German proxy or VPN.

YB have a slight advantage as they will be in proper match rhythm as the Swiss Super League already started two weeks ago, while for Gladbach it will be the first competitive match of the season.


Currently it looks as if Yann Sommer will be fit to play despite suffering an ankle injury in training a week ago.

It appears RWO will be happy with whichever team progressing .

I prefer the team with my favourite Swiss goalie ^^


Back in training!

@urbanroots

It's somewhat weird to look for "Young Boys forums", too. The results are only partly related to football...

2016/17 CL Playoff 2nd Leg: Borussia M'gladbach vs BSC Young Boys

Venue: BorussiaPark, Mönchengladbach


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Official ZDF livestream:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/2819610/Mittwoch-live-im-ZDF-Gladbach---Bern#/beitrag/livevideo/2804538/CL-Play-off:-Gladbach---Bern-live
(German proxy / VPN needed)

Wankdorf stadium and young boys? That kind of crap should be banned.

"Wankdorf" is the name of the quarter of Berne where the original stadium was built ^^

Here are the proper line-ups:


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And goal!!

09.) 1:0 - Thorgan Hazard (assist by Raffael)

Very pretty goal, too

Stylish choreo in the BorussiaPark:


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Aaaand it continues!

33.) 2:0 - Raffael
40.) 3:0 - Raffael (assist by Lars Stindl)



In the beginning of the second half, the YB fans showed that it is still far too easy to smuggle pyros onto the stadium:

It looks like the foals will go through. Nice to see Herman getting a start, seems he has not been a regular for bmg in the last year or two.

Eden and Ronny's younger brothers scoring too.

Patrick Herrmann was injured for much of last season. Fortunately he's fit again now.

Nice save by Yvon Mvogo here!

64.) 4:0 - Thorgan Hazard (assist by Raffael)

Looked like offside, though.

rwo power wrote:@urbanroots

It's somewhat weird to look for "Young Boys forums", too. The results are only partly related to football...

77.) 5:0 - Raffael (assist by Thorgan Hazard)
79.) 5:1 - Yoric Ravet (FK)

79.) 5:1 - Ravet
and a beauty, too!

84.) 6:1 Thorgan Hazard (assist by Fabian Johnson)

Young Boys getting smashed

Raffel with 3 goals 2 assists lol
Hazard with 3 goals 1 assist

Funny to think that before BMG hired Favre, they were fighting relegation...

And in the last season, Gladbach started with 5 (!) defeats in the Bundesliga and still they play in the Champions League now...

Schubert's greatest symphony