Hitzfeld, your way out!

Sergey NIKOLAEV

MATCH TOUR

“Bremen” - “Schalke 04”. A duel can determine the fate of gold. Bremen and Gelsenkirchenians walk foot in foot. Only higher performance allows the team of Thomas Schaaf to outperform the competitor. Bookmakers prefer the “Werder Bremen”, scoring six victories in a row. But the win-win Schalke 04 series reached ten meetings. The hosts will perform without Torsten Frings, who earned out of the blue for the fifth “mustard” season. But Miroslav Klose’s fans are happy, in the dispute of the best snipers of the league he has overtaken Berliner Marko Pantelich. However, in the attack of the “blue” there is a trump card - Kevin Kuranyi. He is in great shape - it was not in vain that after a break he was invited to the German national team.

Borussia D - Stuttgart. The young Dortmund team is still unstable. The victory over Bayern seems to have robbed the yellow-blacks of a lot of energy. The second match, led by Jürgen Reber, was lost to the inmate of the Mainz-05 tournament basement. Today in Dortmund will be visiting “Stuttgart”, whose coach Armin Fe was on his birthday on Thursday. The team will try not to spoil the steering ending of the holiday week.

In 2004, Ottmar Hitzfeld left Bayern after a bad season. Felix Magat took his place, and hardly anyone could have imagined that backcastling would ever happen. However, this happened - Hitzfeld, who rejected many profitable offers in two and a half years, returns to big football. There is no doubt: at the age of 58, Germany's most reputable coach has far from exhausted its potential.

IMPORTANT WORDS

“Over the past two months they threatened to kill me three times. The situation was so serious that in Bochum and Cottbus, plainclothes police looked after me. In recent days all this has reached such limits that I could not stand it. It was very difficult for me to leave, but I thought it over well, "- the former head coach of Borussia from Mönchengladbach, Jupp Heinkes, who resigned on Tuesday.

BEAUTIFUL NUMBERS

This week brought 3 coaching resignations at once. On Tuesday, Felix Magat (Bayern) and Jupp Heynckes (Borussia M) lost their posts. A day later, the dismissal of Thomas Doll (Hamburg) was announced.

February 2. Easy Credit Stadium, 22.30.

Judge: Michael Weiner (Giesen).

Injuries: Glauber, Mintal, Kennedy, Engelhardt / Ismael.

Disqualifications: no.

Nuremberg (Sport Today version): Schaefer - D. Reinhard, Wolf, Nickle, Pinola - Galasek, Mnari, Greshko - Vittek, Schrot, Saenko.

Bayern (Sport Today version): Kahn - Sagnol, Lucio, van Beiten, Lam - van Bommel, Ottl, Salihamidzic, Schweinsteiger - Mackay, Pizarro.

Last matches: = = + + = / = + + - =

First round match : 0-0 (Allianz Arena).

Quotes William Hill: victory of “Nuremberg” - 3.4, draw - 3, victory of “Bavaria” - 2.

Broadcast : NTV-Plus Football, 22.25 (direct).

GERT - HAMBURG

February 3rd. Olimpiyashtadion, 17.30.

Judge: Torsten Kienhefer (Herne) .

Injuries: Shahed, Shimunich, K. Boateng, Kagara / Guerrero, Company, Villinger, Demel.

Disqualifications: Neuendorf / no.

Hertha (Sport Today version): Fiedler - A. Friedrich, van Burik, Schmidt, Faty - Dardai, Dejaga, Bashtürk, Gilberto - Jimenez, Pantelich.

Hamburg (Sport Today version): F. Rost - Benjamin, B. Reinhardt, Mataisen, Atuba - N.de Jong, Yarolim, Sorin, van der Wart - Luboya, Olic.

Last matches: - - + + - / - = = = =

First round match: 1: 1 (“AOL-Arena”).

Quotes William Hill: the victory of “Hertha" - 1.83, the draw - 3.2, the victory of the "Hamburg" - 3.75.

Broadcast: NTV-Plus Football, 17.25 (direct).

February 3rd. Volkswagen Arena, 17.30.

Judge: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg).

Injuries: dos Santos / Roque Junior, Atirson, A. Mayer, Adler, Ramelov.

Disqualifications: no / Castro.

Wolfsburg (Sport Today version): Jentsch - Quiroga, Hofland, Madlung, van der Heyden - Santana, Karhan, van der Legte, Ksinuvek, Marcelinho - Diego Klimovich.

Bayer (Sport Today version): Butt - Aggie, Juan, Kallsen-Bracker, Babich - B. Schneider, Rolfes, Fryer, Barbares, Barnetta - Voronin.

Last matches: - - - - = / = + + + -

First round match: 1: 1 (BayArena).

Quotes William Hill: victory of “Wolfsburg” - 2.62, draw - 2.9, victory of “Bayer” - 2.5.

ARMY - BORUSSIA M

February 3rd. "Shyuko Arena", 17.30.

Judge: Florian Mayer (Burgdorf).

Injuries: Couchera / Dams, Neuville.

Disqualifications: Borges / no.

“Arminia” (version of “Sport Today”): Hein - Korzhinets, Westermann, Shuler - Njeng, Kauf, Marx, Kobylik - Zuma, Vikhnyarek, Gabriel.

Borussia M (Sport Today version): Keller - Bogelund, B. Svensson, Ze Antoniu, Jansen - Polanski, D. Degen, Kluge, Insua - Tugesen, Kae.

Last matches: = = - = - / = = - - =

First round match: 0: 1 (Borussia Park).

Quotes William Hill: the victory of “Arminia” - 1.9, the draw - 3.1, the victory of “Borussia” - 3.6.

EINTRACHT - Mainz-05

February 3 "Commerzbank-Arena", 17.30.

Judge: Felix Brich (Munich).

Injuries: Roemer / Zidane.

Disqualifications: Oaks / Foilner.

Eintracht (Sport Today version): Prell - Preuss, Kiriyakos., Vasoski, Spiher - Jones, Chris, A. Mayer, Turk, Straight - Takahara .

Mainz-05 (Sport Today version): Wache - Demirtas, M. Friedrich, Noweski, Weigelt - F. Gerber, Andreasen, Pekovich, Azauag - Sabich, Nikulae.

Last matches: + - - - = / = = - + +

First round match: 1: 1 (Bruchwegstadion).

Quotes William Hill: victory of “Eintracht” - 1.83, draw - 3, victory of “Mainz-05” - 4.

February 3rd. Tivoli, 17.30.

Judge: Gunter Perl (Munich).

Injuries: Nemeth / Brdarich, Yurich.

Disqualifications: no.

"Alemannia" (version of "Sport Today"): Straub - S. Pinto, Klitzper, Sichone, Leivacabessi - Matt. Lehmann, Reckampf, Fil, Schlaudraff - Ebbers, Ibishevich.

Hannover 96 (Sport Today version): Enke - K. Andersson, Vinicius, Crane, Tarnat - Balich, Lala, Rosenthal, Yankov, Husti - Steiner.

Last matches: - + = - - / + = - - +

First round match : 3-0 (“AVD-Arena”).

Quotes William Hill: the victory of “Alemannia” - 2.37, the draw - 3.1, the victory of “Hanover-96” - 2.62.

February 3rd. "Stadion der Freundschaft". 17.30.

Judge: not appointed.

Injuries: Skela, Jungnickel / Skov-Jensen, Behmann.

Disqualifications: V.da Silva / no.

"Energy" (version of "Sport Today"): Piplitsa - Seleshi, Mackenna, Mitreski, Tsvitanovich - T. Rost, Kukelka, Munteanu, Gunkel - Radu, Kiyo.

"Bochum" (version of "Sport today"): Fractional - Schroeder, Maltrits, Yahia, Benig - Epalle, Dabrowski, Zdebel, Troyan - Misimovich, Gekas.

Last matches: - - = + = / + - + - =

First round match : 1-0 (Revir Power Stadion).

Quotes William Hill: victory of “Energy” - 2, draw - 3.1, victory of “Bochum” - 3.3.

WERDER - Schalke 04

February 4th Weserstadion, 19.00.

Judge: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding).

Injuries: Baumann, Ovomoyela, Klasnic / Azamoa, Kunert, Heppke, Pander.

Disqualifications: Frings / no .

Werder Bremen (Sport Today version): Wiese - Fritz, Mertezacker, Naldo, Wome - Wranyesh, D. Jensen, Borowski, Diego - Klose, Hunt.

Schalke 04 (Sport Today version): Neuer - Hamit Altintop, Bordon, Krstaich - F. Ernst, Varela, Kobiashvili, Lincoln - Kuranyi, Khalil Altintop, Rodriguez .

Last matches: + + + + + + / = + + + +

First round match: 0: 2 (Veltins Arena).

Quotes William Hill: victory, “Bremen” - 1.9, draw - 3, victory “Schalke 04” - 3.75.

Broadcast : NTV-Plus Sport-Online, 18.50 (direct), NTV-Plus Football, 20.50 (record).

February 4th "Signal-Iduna-Park", 19.00.

Judge: Marcus Merck (Otterbach).

Injuries: Verns, Smolyarek, B. Mayer. Vrzhogich / Khedira.

Disqualifications: no / Taschi.

Borussia D (Sport Today version): Weidenfeller - F. Degen, Bzenska, Metzelder, Dede - Kruška, Tinga, Kringe, Pienaar - Aedo Valdes, Fry.

Stuttgart (Sport Today version): Hildebrand - Osorio, Meira, Delpierre, Boca - Pardo, Hilbert, Hitzlsperger, A.da Silva - Gomez, Cacau.

Last matches: + - - + - / = + = - +

First round match: 3: 1 (“Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion”).

Quotes William Hill: the victory of “Borussia” - 2.25. draw - 3, the victory of “Stuttgart” - 2.87.

NOTE: Matches start time is Moscow.

SNIPERS: Pantelich (Hertha), Klose (Bremen) - 11 each .

21st TOUR. 9.02. Hannover 96 - Wolfsburg. 10.02. Stuttgart - Bremen, Schalke 04 - Hertha, Hamburg - Borussia D, Bayer - Eintracht, Borussia M - Alemannia, Mainz-05 - Energy. 11.02. Bochum - Nuremberg, Bavaria - Arminia.