Who plays against whom and when?
Bundesliga
Spiele heute
Beendete Spiele
Which game should you definitely not miss?
Hoffenheim against Union Berlin. Almost unnoticed by the football nation, TSG Hoffenheim has moved up and is currently the third best team in the country, at least according to the table. In the 2026 annual table it is even first. That seems to be exactly the secret of success: apart from a southwest German billionaire, no one is actually interested in TSG, the best conditions to quietly and secretly cheat your way into the Champions League. The team is led by the eternal Andrej Kramarić, who has been playing for TSG since around 1899, by the highly talented newcomer Fisnik Asllani and the Dutchman Wouter Burger, the team’s best scorer. However, he will be missing against Union after a red card that he received in the catch-up game against Werder Bremen during the week. Maybe he can sneak his way onto the field that way. Nobody notices anyway.
Which game can you safely miss?
Bremen versus Gladbach, third versus fifth place in the all-time Bundesliga table. Two teams that once played very exciting football. A game for nostalgics, only the present looks as dreary for both of them as Germany looks at the end of January. Werder only got one point in the four games of the new year. The Foals play sometimes hot and sometimes hot, are stuck in the dull midfield of the table, and are always in danger of being overtaken by the relegation battle. Then it’s better to watch something from before.
Who is in the spotlight?
Leon Goretzka. The national player will leave FC Bayern at the end of the season after eight years. But not in winter, as was excitedly assumed over the course of this week. Atlético Madrid wanted him, but Goretzka didn’t want him (yet), even though he didn’t play for the first time this Champions League season on Wednesday evening in Eindhoven. Anyone who read ZEIT could have guessed it. “I have time. I’ll listen to everything and consider it carefully. I’m looking forward to the discussions that will take place,” he says in an interview with my colleagues.
