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Blanketing the Bundesliga and the German football scene, Talking Fussball is the essential podcast for fans of Europe's most exciting league - talkingfussball.com - @talkingfussball - patreon.com/talkingfussball Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-fussball/support

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    • 4.8 • 205 Ratings

Blanketing the Bundesliga and the German football scene, Talking Fussball is the essential podcast for fans of Europe's most exciting league - talkingfussball.com - @talkingfussball - patreon.com/talkingfussball Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-fussball/support

    Talking Fussball - Dortmund show their steely side and take a point in Leverkusen...but Bayern can't profit

    Talking Fussball - Dortmund show their steely side and take a point in Leverkusen...but Bayern can't profit

    The end of the Hinrunde is drawing nearer and it's looking ever more likely that Bayer 04 Leverkusen will stay on top of the league for the winter. That's mostly down to them still not having lost a single game, but at least this weekend they can thank the weather too. With Munich buried in snow, FC Bayern didn't manage to get their game against 1. FC Union Berlin in on Match Day 13, which meant the pharmaceuticals' home draw with Borussia Dortmund didn't cost them first place - at least not yet. Matt, Nik and Terry chat about that big clash, set up a few games to watch in the DFB Pokal this week, and chew the fat about the goings on in the Bundesliga.


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    • 37 min
    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - St. Pauli win Rostock grudge match ahead of big showdown with HSV

    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - St. Pauli win Rostock grudge match ahead of big showdown with HSV

    With their win away to Hansa Rostock on match day 14, FC St. Pauli are sitting pretty on top of the 2. Bundesliga for a seventh straight week. That suits our Maik just fine, of course, but he, Nik and Jasmine know that the stakes of Friday's big Hamburg city derby against HSV are still massive. The gang also takes a look at Tobias Schweinsteiger's exit from VfL Osnabrück, a scary incident in Dresden, and more from the lower leagues.


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    • 46 min
    Talking Fussball - Union Berlin entering the unknown after Urs Fischer's exit

    Talking Fussball - Union Berlin entering the unknown after Urs Fischer's exit

    Over the past five years, sometimes it's felt like 1. FC Union Berlin could only go up. The Köpenickers' rise from little-club-that-could to European contender has been among the best in world football over that span, but now it's come to an end after Urs Fischer, the coach who took them from the 2. Bundesliga to the UEFA Champions League, decided they'd be better off without him. For a little insight on how it all went down, Matt turns to Kit Holden, who covers the Irons for Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper, as well as talks it out with Nik and Terry. They also get into what might be ailing the suddenly lame Borussia Dortmund and investor talk swirling around Werder Bremen and the league as a whole.


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    • 50 min
    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - Newly promoted sides Wiesbaden and Elversberg are on the march...but St. Pauli are still on top

    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - Newly promoted sides Wiesbaden and Elversberg are on the march...but St. Pauli are still on top

    FC St. Pauli continued to set the pace in the 2. Bundesliga on MD13, even as they slumped to a 0-0 draw at home to the rising Hannover 96. But enough about the result, the real story at the Millerntor was the Polizeieinsatz, which felt to many like an overreaction. Nik and Maik talk that incident over, try and figure out what's gotten into two of the 2. Liga's newly-promoted sides, and much more from the lower divisions.


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    • 34 min
    Talking Fussball - Bayern boss another Klassiker, Mainz off to a strong start in the post-Svensson era

    Talking Fussball - Bayern boss another Klassiker, Mainz off to a strong start in the post-Svensson era

    As you might have heard, FC Bayern München went to Dortmund and took their hosts BVB apart...but that's the way the Klassiker seems to go in recent years. Nik and Terry dig into that and other stories, including a tempestuous week for Mainz 05 that ended with a win, Cologne's persisting troubles, coming changes at the top for Werder Bremen and more.


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    • 50 min
    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - St. Pauli on the march, Braunschweig make changes, and soggy times in Saarbrücken

    Talking Fussball Aufstieg - St. Pauli on the march, Braunschweig make changes, and soggy times in Saarbrücken

    With nearly one-third of the season in the books, FC St. Pauli look a good bet to go up to the top flight. Nik draws out our resident Pauli fan Maik on what's going so right at the Millerntor, and whether the club's lengthy unbeaten run is at rick anytime soon. Jasmine weighs in on whether Eintracht Braunschweig is beyond help, and the gang break out their rain gear to talk about the sodden mess in Saarbrücken that wrought havoc in the 3. Liga and the DFB Pokal.


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    • 46 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
205 Ratings

205 Ratings

Mr.cop 1 ,

The only English language BL podcast you need

This is the best podcast with the least, hot takes, and most equitable distribution of coverage. Other bundesliga podcast are really just Bayern podcasts with 10 minutes or so devoted to the rest of the league and maybe an extra 5 for Leipzig and Dortmund. If you care about the league and/or want to learn more about it as a whole with special episodes dedicated to individual clubs, their histories and current states, this is the one for you.

Blogworkorange ,

Great BL pod all around

Great analyses and free of any hot takes. BL must listen.

Beach Courtsman ,

Truly Complete

Great OG podcast about the Bundesliga. This and “The Schnitzel Boys” podcast are two of my favorite German soccer podcasts!

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