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Berlin (dpa) - In view of the turmoil surrounding the first big announced and then shamefully canceled European billion-dollar Super League, the Bundesliga almost faded into the background on Tuesday and Wednesday.

With the relegation of FC Schalke 04, the first decision of the season has been made.

The second could follow on Saturday.

Then Bayern Munich will have the chance to be celebrated as champions for the ninth time in a row on matchday 31.

VfL Wolfsburg would also like to celebrate if it should almost certainly have a place in the Champions League with a win against Borussia Dortmund.

But at BVB hope for the premier class is back.

Werder Bremen - freed from relegation worries for a long time - is suddenly back in the fight for sporting survival.

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TITLE DECISION: The time has come on Saturday - at least if it goes according to FC Bayern's plans. The Munich team want to make the ninth championship in a row perfect with a win at FSV Mainz 05. 31 titles in total and 30 of them during Bundesliga times - the latter brings the fifth star. In addition, the hunt of Robert Lewandowski, who last appeared for Bayern a month ago due to a knee injury, is to be continued. The Pole has 35 goals under his belt, Gerd Müller's record is 40.

BATTLE FOR EUROPE: At BVB, the hope for a happy ending in the fight for a Champions League place is back. After three wins in a row, the fifth in the table (52 points) is confident in the game against the third from Wolfsburg (57). «We want to reduce the gap to Wolfsburg to two points. Likewise, we have to accept this game and we need an extremely good performance, ”said coach Edin Terzic. With a win, the Revierclub could ideally reduce the gap to fourth from Frankfurt (56) to just one point. However, this presupposes that the sixth from Leverkusen (47) provides support in the duel with Hessen. Should the Frankfurt and Wolfsburg win, they already have their European Cup participation guaranteed.

RELEASE FIGHT: After six defeats in a row, Werder Bremen is again deep in the battle for relegation.

The lead in 16th place is still four points, but Hertha BSC played two games less.

Unlike the entire competition in the table cellar, Bremen do not want to change coach.

As in the preseason, the bosses are sticking to Florian Kohfeldt, who saved Werder in the preseason in the relegation.

But the mood on the Weser is badly clouded after the negative record was set, while Cologne, Bielefeld and Mainz were able to score recently and are starting the final spurt with fresh self-confidence.

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THE COLLAPSE OF THE SUPER LEAGUE: The outcry from fans, players, associations and politicians was great after twelve top clubs from Europe presented their plans for the Super League on Monday night. It was just as astonishing how quickly the protest storm had swept away the plans within 48 hours - at least for the time being. One club after the other withdrew from the billion-dollar project. German clubs weren't there anyway. Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund made it clear early on that they would reject the competition for the Champions League.

SCHALKE: Even if the fourth relegation of the Royal Blues is now certain, a lot remains unclear about the Revierclub.

The events from the night of relegation - frustrated fans attacked the professionals - have to be dealt with.

And how things will go on with the new start project in league two is pretty open.

Which staff stays, who has to leave?

How's the finances?

Schalke will answer these questions in their last Bundesliga weeks for the time being.

At least this weekend there is a breather because the home game against Hertha BSC was postponed due to the corona quarantine at the capital club.

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