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Berlin (AP) - five games, five draws.
Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 in particular could have desperately needed victories in the Bundesliga.
BVB is trembling about qualifying for the Champions League, the area rivals before relegation.
The derby is on next Saturday.
CRISIS: Disappointing again.
Borussia Dortmund is still in crisis, the happy 2: 2 after 1: 2 deficit against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is not enough in the fight for the Champions League places.
“In the end, it was more 3: 2 for Hoffenheim than 3: 2 for us,” said Mats Hummels, who, however, also said optimistically at Sky: “We are on the mend.
But that doesn't happen overnight. "
The gap to fourth place is three points.
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RELEASE CANDIDATE: Eight points behind the relegation place.
After 21 games.
For Schalke it will be very, very difficult after the 0-0 at Union Berlin to keep the class.
"I think any point could help us," said Suat Serdar on Sky.
Goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann said: “There is no point in burying your head in the sand or moping up or going on the pity tour.
We just have to be men in every game. "
That doesn't just sound like perseverance.
"Of course we believe in it, hope definitely dies last," said coach Christian Gross.
RETURN: Sami Khedira was satisfied.
The 2014 world champion played his 100th Bundesliga game at his former club VfB Stuttgart and was happy to take the 1-1 point with Hertha BSC.
«He gave the team stability.
The team needed him, ”said coach Pal Dardai, who came on as Khedira in the 58th minute.
The 33-year-old himself spoke of an unfamiliar feeling.
"But in the end it was a competitive game, so it was, on the whole, a nice return."
PRELIMINARY: Maybe it wasn't so bad for Bayer Leverkusen's current and possibly future national players that national coach Joachim Löw was not in the stadium in the 2-2 win against relegation-threatened FSV Mainz 05.
"Problems with the journey" prevented Löw's appearance - that is why he did not see the two late goals against Leverkusen who missed the temporary jump to third place.
Coach Peter Bosz was served, the game was in many ways "the worst game" he had seen of his team.
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BOLLWERK: It's right at the back.
Werder Bremen, once known for offensive artists, is building on important points - on Saturday to a 0-0 draw against SC Freiburg.
With only six goals conceded in seven games, the eleventh place in the table in 2021, together with VfL Wolfsburg, currently has the most stable defense of all 18 Bundesliga clubs.
"If I had been sitting in Block 51 as before, I would not have gone home and said: Yes, how cool!" Said coach Florian Kohfeldt.
"But we did well, I'm very happy with that."
EUROPEAN CUP: VfL Wolfsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach will face important points in the race for the European Cup on Sunday (6 p.m. / Sky).
"We have absolutely nothing to lose, we can only win three points in each game," said Wolfsburg coach Oliver Glasner apparently calmly.
Gladbach has to make up for something after the derby defeat against Cologne.
Eintracht Frankfurt is also aiming for a top-class place, which has been unbeaten for five games and welcomes Cologne in the afternoon (3:30 p.m.).
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FSV Mainz 05 already scored 7 points in the second half of the season, as many as in the entire first half of the season.
11 years lie between Sami Khedira's last goal participation in the Bundesliga (against Werder Bremen in March 2010) and his presentation in the Hertha jersey at VfB Stuttgart.
14 - points from the first ten games mean Edin Terzic's weakest record for a BVB coach since Bert van Maarwijk in the 2004/05 season (eleven).
21 - Bundesliga away games, FC Schalke 04 are now waiting for a win.
Club negative record expanded.
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