reaching relegation and won, facing VfL Bochum, to secure another year in Germany's top division football. They did not make any moves or changes to their Team Roster during the summer, as the team management wants to allow their team to develop its Chemistry and understand each other well as well as grow together, and it seems to be working. Six matches have been played thus far and Borussia has 13 points to their credit.
Another team that nobody bargained to come through the way they have is Werder Bremen. After a horrible season last year where they almost could not avoid relegation with a transfer-time, where they lost important players like Per Mertesacker (for 10 Million Euros to Arsenal), they suddenly ex- perienced a second spring this season.
On the other side: Defending champion Borussia Dortmund has already suffered three losses, as they were beaten by Hannover 96, Dortmund dominated the game, leading 1-0 after a goal by Shinji Kagawa with only a few minutes to play, but Hannover striked back. Tunisian defender Karim Haggui (87.) and Ivorian striker Didier Ya Konan (89.) turned the game up- side down for Dortmund. What was even worse for them was the situation at Hamburger SV, where they lost to the only club that has played every campaign of the Bundesliga, since its founding year in 1963, and happen to be at the bottom of the league with only one point. Even with new manager Frank Arnesen - formerly of Chelsea FC – who brought many talents with him from his old club with him, Hamburg seemed to be helpless. These losses eventually lead to the dismissal of coach Michael Oenning, who was blamed for not being able to improve the players.
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