The afternoon kick-offs within the Bundesliga offered us with a number of attention-grabbing storylines as RB Leipzig got here from behind to beat SC Freiburg 3-1, Borussia Dortmund misplaced 2-1 towards Augsburg, VfB Stuttgart held off a late Holstein Kiel comeback to win 2-1 and St Pauli and Wolfsburg performed out a 0-0 draw. 

So let’s take a look at a number of the highlights of the afternoon:

Borussia Dortmund don’t have any id:

After their spectacular collapse towards Actual Madrid in mid week, Dortmund had the possibility to redeem themselves towards Augsburg. An early objective from Donyell Malen was a step in the precise path, however that was about it. Alexis Claude Maurice scored two objectives and noticed Augsburg take the three factors. 

Dortmund noticed numerous the ball however they battle to constantly appear like a menace once they go ahead. Serhou Guirassy was their stand-out participant and for the time being it appears to be like as if he has downgraded when he switched from Stuttgart in the summertime. The substitutions Nuri Sahin made at halftime have been ineffective, as soon as once more, as Emre Can was pressured to play as a centre-back. Nonetheless, youth gamers Almugera Kabar and Cole Campbell each noticed some recreation time. 

Die Schwarzgelben look a great distance off of the group that they need to be and even a change of supervisor is not going to assist them as they’ll in all probability find yourself hiring somebody who as soon as once more has a connection to the membership. 

RB Leipzig can be effective with out Xavi Simons:

Leipzig conceded their third objective of the season towards Freiburg, which suggests they nonetheless maintain the most effective defence within the league, nonetheless, it has been their assault that has not appeared free-flowing in these first eight video games of the season. 

The harm in midweek to Xavi Simons didn’t look good for Leipzig however they appear like they need to be okay. Loïs Openda is their stand-out attacker, whereas Benjamin Seško, who in all probability has the best ceiling as a striker within the league, must step up and present his potential within the absence of Simons. If not, a possible revival of André Silva could possibly be on the playing cards because the Portuguese offered the assists for Openda’s objective. 

Leipzig clearly has the defensive capabilities to win the league, their assault simply must catch up. 

VfB Stuttgart have a (good) striker drawback:

In the summertime, three strikers arrived on the MHP Enviornment: Deniz Undav returned to the membership completely, Ermedin Demirovic moved from Augsburg and El Bilal Touré arrived on mortgage from Atalanta. 

Each Undav and Demirovic hit the bottom operating this season, whereas it has taken Touré a number of video games to stand up and operating however after his midweek objective towards Juventus in addition to his objective and help as we speak, the 23-year-old might have given Sebastian Hoeneß a range headache. All three carry their very own qualities to the aspect however the query is, does leaving one out have an effect on the group elsewhere?

Hoeneß was in the identical scenario final season, an harm to Serhou Guirassy allowed Undav into the beginning 11 and the striker had a right away influence which pressured Hoeneß to play the pair collectively and it labored a deal with as they fired Stuttgart to a second-place end.

Can a trio of Undav-Touré-Demirovic have the identical influence?

GGFN | Jack Meenan