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AUGUST
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The title defence starts now

DFB-POKAL FIRST ROUND
FC Heidenheim 1-4 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Christensen, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker, Horvath (Oppong 59), Ricardo, Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 69)
Giuliano Battista take a bow! An incredible start to the season for the Italian international as he smashes in 4 pat a hapless Heidenheim goalkeeper

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-0 Werder Bremen
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Bender, Jehl (Oppong 67), Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Horvath, Becker (Christensen 82), Bjarnason, Ricardo, Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 59)
It looks like Thorsten Jankowski and Giuliano Battista have a little competition going already as Jankowski smashed home a hat-trick to kick off the Bundesliga campaign! Nice to see Franchino bag his first goal for the club

BUNDESLIGA
Eintracht Frankfurt 0-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Dona 74), Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 58), Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 58)
Frankfurt have scored 135 goals over the past two seasons (Only 4 less than us) so to keep one of Germany's most attacking teams quiet for a whole 90 minutes is very pleasing

LEAGUE TABLE
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A solid start

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SEPTEMBER
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Our title defence started well last month, lets keep it going

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-1 FC Schalke
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes (Oppong 67), Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Christensen 58), Horvath, Ricardo, Battista (Woodburn 67), Jankowski
OHHHHHHHHH THORSTEN JANKOWSKI, OHHHHHHHHHH THORSTEN JANKOWSKI!!!!!!! What a paerformance, what a player, what a man

BUNDESLIGA
Bayern Munich 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Christensen, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 77), Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 61), Battista (Woodburn 61), Jankowski
A good performance but we were somewhat fortunate with the goal as a wicked deflection granted us victory

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 Hertha Berlin
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason (Dona 81), Becker (Christensen 81), Horvath, Ricardo, Battista (Woodburn 58), Jankowski
Ben Woodburn has finally announced himself at Gladbach as he bags a brace against his former club to bag us an important win

BUNDESLIGA
FC Köln 1-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Horvath, Becker (Bauer 64), Bjarnason, Ricardo, Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 64)
They had one shot on ******* target

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 Hoffenheim
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 79), Horvath, Becker, Bjarnason, Ricardo (Eschwaltrup 63), Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 45)
That's better

LEAGUE TABLE
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We lost our unbeaten run. Annoying.​
 
OCTOBER
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An Octoberfest-ival of football? Eh? I'll get my coat...

BUNDESLIGA
VfB Stuttgart 0-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 68), Bjarnason, Becker (Schaf 68), Horvath, Ricardo, Jankowski, Woodburn
Ben Woodburn has done exactly what I wanted since joining from Dortmund, coming in and doing a job and bagging a few goals and that's what he did today, deputising for Giuliano Battista

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 Augsburg
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Becker, Bjarnason, Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 65), Battista, Jankowski
Three goals and Jankowski didn't bag one which has continued a somewhat disappointing season for the German international

BUNDESLIGA
FC Ingolstadt 0-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 73), Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 54), Horvath, Ricardo, Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 54)
Our first draw of the season comes at my old stomping ground in Bavaria

DFB-POKAL THIRD ROUND
Eintracht Frankfurt 1-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Christensen, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 67), Horvath, Ricardo (Woodburn 67), Battista, Jankowski
A solid win sees us through to the next round

LEAGUE TABLE
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So far, so good​
 
NOVEMBER


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A tricky month coming up, can we deal with it?




BUNDESLIGA

Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Borussia Dortmund

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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Horvath, Becker (Bauer 60), Bjarnason, Ricardo, Battista, Jankowski (Woodburn 45)

Another Borussen derby, another convincing win as Giuliano Battista continues to spare Thorsten Jankowski's blushes


BUNDESLIGA

Red Bull Leipzig 2-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach

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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 66), Horvath, Ricardo, Battista (Eschwaltrup 66), Jankowski

Phew! Two unconventional goalscorers turned up for us today as a late comeback threatened our three points, fortunately we held on




BUNDESLIGA

Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 FSV Mainz

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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Christensen, Jalali, Bjarnason (Dona 79), Becker (Oppong 79), Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 57), Woodburn, Jankowski

A couple of goals in quick succession saw off a brave Mainz side



LEAGUE TABLE

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A solid month
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That Oktoberfest joke has got to fall under "bringing the game into disrepute". Touchline ban? ;)
 
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LIVERPOOL SIGN BATTISTA
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Liverpool have today announced the signing of Italian striker Giuliano Battista from Borussia Mönchengladbach for a fee of €74m

The Reds, who currently sit in 5th in the Premier League, have decided to throw money at their problems as they matched the Italian international's release clause

Battista, who joined Gladbach for €18.75m, was an integral part of the German club's successful title challenge last season and scored 20 goals in 57 league appearances for Borussia Mönchengladbach

Gladbach have enjoyed a solid start to their title defence and they currently sit 6 points clear top the Bundesliga as they head into the winter break
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WONDERKIDS GALORE AT GLADBACH
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Borussia Mönchengladbach have today kicked off their January spending by announcing the signings of an extraordinary 7 players for a combined fee of €16.8m!

The "Gladbach 7" have an average of just 16! With 5 being 16, 1 17 year old and the other being just 15!

The vast majority of the acquisitions hail from Spain, with 15 year old Michael Birk being the only German signed, coming in from Werder Bremen for €4.3m

The other all hail from Spain, with 2 joining from Valencia, Salvador Carrasco (€2.5m) and Josep Martinez (€2m), Edgar Gomez coming from Real Valladolid (€1.4m), Andres Mas from Villarreal (€1.4m), Adrian Reina from Sevilla (€950,000) and Kepa Pareda from RCD Espanyol (€4.2m)

In other news, Borussia Mönchengladbach have drawn Manchester United in the next round of the Champions League, having finished second in their group behind Arsenal
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PADILLA JOINS GLADBACH
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Bourssia Mönchengladbach have today announced the signing of Ernesto Padilla from Manchester City for a fee of €45m

Gladbach, who of course lost star striker Giuliano Battista to Liverpool earlier in the week, have been praised for their quick action in replacing the Italian

The Spaniard, who joined Manchester City from Levante for just €1.8m, had made 62 appearances across 3 different leagues despite being just 22 years old

The striker never managed to break into the first team and instead scored 16 goals in 32 games for Metz on a loan spell, his only successful season to date
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February was an action packed month for us here at Gladbach as we smashed a couple of teams, draw with United and got completely mugged off by Bayern Munich and Schalke

Against Bayern we had 20 shots (including a missed penalty), they had 3. Against Schalke we had 27 shots, they had 9. Anyway, lets not dwell on that

We managed to get a very creditable draw against United with a very defensive 4-1-3-2 and I think we'll use that at Old Trafford

Other than that there was a ridiculous 6-3 win against Werder Bremen and a 5-0 and 3-0 win over rivals Köln. Roll on March.
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MARCH
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Some European football this month. Woop woop.

BUNDESLIGA
Hoffenheim 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 82), Bjarnason, Becker, Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 45), Padilla, Jankowski (Woodburn 58)
Phew! That was a close run thing as we struggled to break down a stubborn Hoffenheim defence, fortunately we found a way through though as we picked up all three points

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-0 VfB Stuttgart
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker, Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 61), Padilla, Jankowski (Woodburn 61)
A bit of a collector's item today as Cedric Jehl bagged the winner in a poor encounter with Stuttgart

BUNDESLIGA
Augsburg 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Christensen, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker, Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 57), Padilla, Jankowski (Woodburn 65)
HELP! Borussia Mönchengladbach have been kidnapped and replaced by George Graham's Arsenal

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FIRST KNOCKOUT ROUND SECOND LEG
Manchester United 0-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchngladbach win 3-0 on aggregate
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Bender, Jehl, Christensen, Jalali, Franchino, De Paz, Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 65), Horvath, Padilla (Woodburn 73), Jankowski
I've learned my lesson from Champions League hammerings gone by and went with a defensive 4-1-3-2 away here at Old Trafford and boy did it work! We soaked up pressure and unleashed lethal counter attacks, with 17 year old holding midfielder Joaquin De Paz bagging his first ever professional goal

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-0 FC Ingolstadt
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 66), Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 66), Padilla, Jankowski
The return of Thorsten Jankowski? The German international smashed home a sublime hat trick to end the month on top

LEAGUE TABLE
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What a month!
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Wow, great result against Utd. "Joaquin De Paz" is still probably my favourite regen name from the past few versions... sounds like a minor Bond villain from the 80s films.
 
NeverChosenOne said:
Wow, great result against Utd. "Joaquin De Paz" is still probably my favourite regen name from the past few versions... sounds like a minor Bond villain from the 80s films.
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In one youth intake we had the very German "Tony Rees"
 
APRIL
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Cup, league and Europe!

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER FINAL FIRST LEG
Real Madrid 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Ricardo 76), Horvath, Padilla (Eschwaltrup 90), Jankowski (Woodburn 65)
This 4-1-3-2 is the stuff of dreams defensively as we stifled Madrid at the Bernabeu

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Golemis, Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 58), Horvath, Ricardo, Padilla, Woodburn (Eschwaltrup 77)
A last minute wondergoal from teenager Bernd Eschwaltrup may have secured us the title as we bagged a vital three points in the Borussen derby

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER FINAL SECOND LEG
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 Real Madrid
Borussia Mönchengladbach win 4-1 on aggregate
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Golemis, De Paz, Bjarnason, Becker (Bauer 59), Horvath, Padilla (Eschwaltrup 59), Woodburn
Who needs Thorsten Jankowski? Our €60m man wasn't needed as a Welsh veteran and a Spanish outcast put Real Madrid to the sword in a famous night at the Borussia Park

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-1 Red Bull Leipzig
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (Schaaf 65), Horvath, Ricardo, Padilla, Woodburn (Eschwaltrup 65)
I bet Leipzig regret rejecting me a few years ago now

BUNDESLIGA
FSV Mainz 0-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Horvath, Bjarnason, Becker, Ricardo (Bauer 62), Padilla, Jankowski (Eschwaltrup 62)
I like winning and winning likes me

DFB-POKAL SEMI FINAL
Hamburg 1-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 73), Horvath, Bjarnason, Becker, Ricardo, Padilla, Jankowski (Woodburn 73)
OLYMPIASTADION, OLYMPIASTADION, WE'RE THE FAMOUS BORUSSIA MöNCHENGLADBACH AND WE'RE OFF TO THE OLYMPIASTADION. Doesn't flow quite as well, does it?

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 85), Horvath, Bjarnason, Becker, Ricardo (Bauer 60), Padilla, Jankowski (Woodburn 65)
A pretty boring dress rehearsal for the DFB-Pokal final

LEAGUE TABLE
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Back-to-back?
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MAY
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We have a big month ahead of us

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI FINAL FIRST LEG
Manchester City 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 73), Horvath, Ricardo (Bauer 73), Padilla (Woodburn 60), Jankowski
Manchester City never frightened me as much as Manchester United or Real Madrid so we went with the 4-3-1-2, but on Counter, not Attacking, and it worked a treat!

BUNDESLIGA
Fortuna Düsseldorf 0-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 63), Horvath, Bjarnason, Becker, Ricardo (Bauer 21), Padilla (Eschwaltrup 75), Jankowski
27 shots, 13 on target. Oh and did I mention we're champions?

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI FINAL SECOND LEG
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Manchester City
Borussia Mönchengladbach win 3-0 on aggregate
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 63), Horvath, Bauer, Padilla, Jankowski (Eschwaltrup 63)
WE'RE IN THE ******* FINAL!!!!!

BUNDESLIGA
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-2 VfL Wolfsburg
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Bender, Jehl, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 73), Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 58), Horvath, Bauer, Padilla, Jankowski (Eschwaltrup 58)
A nice big win against Wolfsburg

BUNDESLIGA
Hamburg 1-4 Borussia Mönchengladbach
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Bender, Oppong, Gomes, Jalali, Franchino, Bjarnason, Becker (De Paz 57), Horvath, Bauer, Padilla (Eschwaltrup 57), Jankowski
Another nice big win to end the season

DFB-POKAL FINAL
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen win 4-3 on Penalties
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Bender, Jehl (Woodburn 118), Gomes, Jalali, Franchino (Golemis 90), Bjarnason (Eschwaltrup 118), Becker (De Paz 90), Horvath, Bauer, Padilla, Jankowski
We are so **** at penalties

LEAGUE TABLE
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Roll on the Champions League​
 
2030 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
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Borussia Mönchengladbach v Tottenham Hotspur
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The Champions League trophy will have a new name on it this year as two sides who've never won the competition go head to head

ROUTE TO THE FINAL
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[TD]GLADBACH[/TD]
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[TD]TOTTENHAM[/TD]
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[TD]2nd[/TD]
[TD]GROUP FINISH[/TD]
[TD]
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[TD]Manchester United (3-0)[/TD]
[TD]R16[/TD]
[TD]AC Milan (6-2)[/TD]
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[TD]Real Madrid (4-1)[/TD]
[TD]QF[/TD]
[TD]AS Monaco (5-5)[/TD]
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[TD]Manchester City (3-0)[/TD]
[TD]SF[/TD]
[TD]Paris Saint-Germain (8-4)[/TD]
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LINE UPS
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Gladbach line up in a 4-3-1-2 whilst Spurs go for a more conventional 4-2-3-1

KICK-OFF
7th Minute-Bauer now, plays it forward for Padilla who takes it forward, crosses for Jankowski, he must score... WHAT A SAVE!
17th Minute-Horvath on the ball now, plays it through for Jankowski to chase, he's one-on-one.. SAVED!
36th Minute-Jehl with the throw deep in Tottenham's territory, its thrown to Padilla, pulls it back for Horvath, he shoots.. POST, it falls to him on the REBOOOOOOOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HORVATH SCORES!!!! 1-0 TO GLADBACH!!

HALF-TIME
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Gladbach have had all the chances so far
SUBS:Alberto Prieto replaces Joop van de Berg for Tottenham. Gladbach remain unchanged.

SECOND-HALF
51st Minute-Raymond van Wijk replaces Mert Gülen for Tottenham
51st Minute-Gladbach lose the ball and Spurs break with Goncalves, to Robin, he whips it in for PRIETOOOOO!!!! GOAL!!! 1-1! NO! Its been disallowed!
59th Minute-Ben Woodburn replaces Thorsten Jankowski for Gladbach
60th Minute-Padilla picks the ball up now, he beats his man, finds Bauer its across for WOODBURN!!! Oh he's missed, it was a sitter!
65th Minute-The corner is cleared by Tottenha but only as far as Franchino, who finds Bauer, who finds BEN WOODBUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNN!!!! 2-0 TO GLADBACH!
65th Minute-Stuart Coleman replaces Juan Maria for Tottenham
68th Minute-Good play from Gladbach here and they've found Bauer, who sweeps the ball out wide for Jehl who gets it in for Woodburn! Blocked by Coleman
69th Minute-Tottenham come forward, but they've lost it! Woodburn now, plays it through for Padilla, he's in on goal... HE'S BLAZED IT OVER THE BAR! Gladbach should be 4 or 5 goals up
75th Minute-Joaquin De Paz replaces Alexander Becker for Gladbach
84th Minute-Bauer finds Horvath, who plays a one-two with Woodburn, its Horvath now breaking through shoots.. comfortable save
86th Minute-Gladbach break again with Horvath, who's found Woodburn, he's through.... MISSES! This is becoming farcical now
92nd Minute-De Paz clears and that's it! Borussia Mönchengladbach have won the Champions League!

FULL TIME
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur
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You did it! What's next, then? Building or dynasty, or has the CL win given you wanderlust? :P
 
NeverChosenOne said:
You did it! What's next, then? Building or dynasty, or has the CL win given you wanderlust? :P
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I quite like the idea of creating the next Bayern and I want to see how far the youngsters at the club can go

But then again, if the right job comes available...
 
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