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USA Today
14-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
How to Watch RB Leipzig vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
How to Watch RB Leipzig vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time | 5/17/2025 Two of the Bundesliga's top 10 scorers will be on display when Benjamin Sesko (13 goals) and RB Leipzig host Ermedin Demirovic (14) and VfB Stuttgart on May 17, 2025. The match will stream on ESPN+. RB Leipzig met Werder Bremen away from home in its last game and the sides finished with a draw, 0-0. Both clubs took 13 shots in the game. In its last match on May 11, VfB Stuttgart took down FC Augsburg 4-0 at home. VfB Stuttgart outshot FC Augsburg 24 to seven. How to watch RB Leipzig vs. VfB Stuttgart When: Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Where: Leipzig Stadium in Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Stadium in Leipzig, Germany Live Stream: ESPN+ Watch live sports and more without cable on ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. RB Leipzig key players Sesko is a key contributor for RB Leipzig, with 13 goals and three assists. Xavi Simons is another important player for RB Leipzig, with nine goals and six assists. Lois Openda has added nine goals and five assists. David Raum has added one goal and four assists. VfB Stuttgart key players VfB Stuttgart's Demirovic has 14 goals (eighth in league) and one assist. Nick Woltemade has 11 goals (on 32 shots, 1.5 per game) and two assists. Enzo Millot has six goals and five assists. With eight goals and two assists, Deniz Undav is chipping in, too. To watch live sports and more without cable, head to ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. RB Leipzig vs. VfB Stuttgart match breakdown
Fox Sports
10-04-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Wounded Bayern and Dortmund look for answers in untimely Klassiker
Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Champions League is not doing Der Klassiker any favors. Bayern Munich hosts Borussia Dortmund on Saturday for what has traditionally been one of the Bundesliga's showpiece games of the season, but both rivals are smarting after chastening Champions League defeats and preoccupied by how they might continue in Europe's premier competition. Bayern, in particular, will be focused on its second leg quarterfinal at Inter Milan on Wednesday, when it will need to overturn a one-goal deficit after conceding late in the first leg. Munich hosts the Champions League final in May. Dortmund was outclassed by Barcelona 4-0 in their quarterfinal first leg and bracing for another demonstration when the Spanish giant visits for the second leg on Tuesday. In recent seasons, Der Klassiker has been key to deciding the league title. But Bayern's main rival in the last couple of years has been Bayer Leverkusen – currently six points behind the Bavarian powerhouse with six games remaining. Dortmund is languishing in eighth place after a humbling season, though it still harbors hopes of finishing in the top four to qualify for the lucrative Champions League. A win against Bayern in Munich would boost those hopes and help Leverkusen keep alive its dwindling chances of defending its title. A look at what else is happening in the Bundesliga this weekend: Key matchups — While Bayern and Dortmund hog attention in the evening, Leverkusen will be hoping to pressure Bayern with a win over visiting Union Berlin earlier. But Union has won its last two games and is unbeaten in four. — Wolfsburg hosts Leipzig on Friday with the visitor looking for another win to provisionally move into the top four, pressuring Eintracht Frankfurt, Mainz and Borussia Monchengladbach, its rivals for European qualification. — Holstein Kiel hosts St. Pauli in a relegation battle on Saturday. Kiel (18 points) gained a valuable point against Mainz last weekend and can climb off the bottom with a win, depending on how Bochum (20) fares against Augsburg. Heidenheim (22) visits Frankfurt on Sunday. Players to watch — Bayern's Harry Kane had a bad miss in the 2-1 loss to Inter on Tuesday and will be keen to warm up for the trip to Italy by adding to his 23 league goals. — Ermedin Demirovic hit a hat trick for Stuttgart against Bochum last weekend and can add to his 13 goals in a key game against visiting Werder Bremen on Saturday. Bremen and Stuttgart still have chances of European qualification. What they're saying — 'We have to defend more and better than today. Because we'll also have problems in Munich without a defense.' — Dortmund coach Niko Kovać after his team's 4-0 loss in Barcelona. ___ AP soccer: recommended in this topic
USA Today
01-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
How to Watch VfL Bochum vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
How to Watch VfL Bochum vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time | 4/5/2025 VfB Stuttgart (11th) and VfL Bochum (17th) play on Saturday at 9:30 AM ET, in a matchup between two teams residing in the bottom half of the Bundesliga. Stream the match on ESPN+. VfB Stuttgart faced Eintracht Frankfurt away from home in its last match and lost by a final score of 1-0. The VfB Stuttgart side fell short while outshot by eight in the matchup, 14 to six. In its last match on March 28, VfL Bochum was taken down by Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 on the road. Bayer Leverkusen outshot VfL Bochum 14 to eight. How to watch VfL Bochum vs. VfB Stuttgart When: Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Where: Vonovia Ruhrstadion in Bochum, Germany Vonovia Ruhrstadion in Bochum, Germany Live Stream: ESPN+ Watch live sports and more without cable on ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. VfB Stuttgart key players Nick Woltemade has nine goals and two assists, playing a starring role for VfB Stuttgart. Ermedin Demirovic has scored 10 goals (ninth in league) this season. Deniz Undav has seven goals and one assist. With four goals and four assists, Enzo Millot is chipping in, too. VfL Bochum key players Myron Boadu has seven goals (on 17 shots, 1.2 per game) and one assist for VfL Bochum. Matus Bero has four goals (on 15 shots, 1.0 per game) and two assists. Felix Passlack has one goal (on 13 shots, 0.9 per game) and four assists. With two goals and three assists, Philipp Hofmann is chipping in, too. To watch live sports and more without cable, head to ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. VfB Stuttgart vs. VfL Bochum match breakdown
The Guardian
17-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Mr Stoppage Time keeps Leverkusen in title picture and revives license to thrill
They did little wrong, but fortune refused to shine on them. Lukas Hradecky spread himself with authority, denying Ermedin Demirovic's finish, but his block cannoned straight into the onrushing Granit Xhaka and the ball nestled in the net in front of the Cannstatter Kurve. Bayer Leverkusen have been bowed far more often than is habitual in the last few weeks, and now they looked to be down and out. It was one of those actions, one of those days, one of those runs, that said it's just not your season. In fact, it wasn't even the first time they'd appeared to be cooked on Sunday evening. That was when Stuttgart's Nick Woltemade, the throwback striker who has been one of the season's low-key revelations, slotted a tidy finish past Hradecky for 2-0 less than three minutes into the second half. We have seen Leverkusen react what feels like a hundred times from this – just not in the last week and a half. Then came the real throwback. Xhaka's unfortunate own goal made it 3-1 before Piero Hincapié got the score back to 3-2. With a few minutes left, Stuttgart's Angelo Stiller sliced Victor Boniface's dangerous delivery into his own net to draw the visitors level. As we ticked into the fourth of five scheduled minutes of stoppage time Jeremie Frimpong had one last go at Chris Führich, swept past him on the outside and stood the cross up for – who else? – Mr Stoppage Time himself, Patrik Schick, to stoop and glance his header from the six-yard line into the far corner of Alexander Nübel's goal. They had had more than their share of these moments before but the way in which they roared, in which Schick jumped into the air and into Xabi Alonso's arms as the coach ran on to the pitch, the metaphorical neat side-parting slipping from position as it had when Real Madrid won La Décima in Lisbon nearly 11 years before, spoke of this being a moment that wasn't just wanted, but needed. There was even still time for Boniface to smash a possible clincher against Nübel's crossbar but that almost would have detracted from the legend, and besides referee Daniel Siebert blew his whistle seconds later. It was done, but the Bundesliga title race, by a whisker, was not. There was exhilaration and, in no small part, relief. Relief not just that Leverkusen have preserved a fighting chance of hunting Bayern down at the top, but relief that their identity forged over the last couple of years as salvagers of lost causes, of thrillers of neutrals, remains intact. That week of three successive defeats, and the doubts that followed, were never going to destroy what Leverkusen built under Alonso. Yet for the first time since his October 2022 arrival, belief was shaken. Not just because of his first defeats to his former club, who had begun to find Leverkusen their most infuriating irritant since Jürgen Klopp-era Borussia Dortmund, but because of their manner. The first leg of the Champions League tie in Munich had been the worst Leverkusen performance in recent memory, imperfectly planned by Alonso and clumsily executed by his players, with everything that could go wrong going wrong. After the league defeat by Werder Bremen the return leg was simply sad. Shorn of the injured Florian Wirtz, Leverkusen were game but never really in it, picked off by a textbook Bayern away performance – but the sort of away performance they had never been close to mustering against the champions in recent times, be it the thrashing they took last year at BayArena on their way to losing the title or the hammering they took on their last Bundesliga visit in February, when they improbably snuck back south with a point in tow. If there was a feeling that this tie represented a slink back towards the status quo after the last season and a half, that was largely external – except there were signs that for the first time, those inside the changing room had some doubts. Alonso had publicly criticised his own tactics and choices for the home defeat by Bremen, which had turned out to be a huge missed opportunity with Bayern slipping up at home to Bochum. So when Stuttgart – a very worthy opponent of late whose ability to compete with Leverkusen has conjured some excellent games – got on top of them on Sunday, it felt like the final chance was passing them by, after Bayern only managed a draw on Saturday at Union Berlin. 'They won't give us many chances,' underlined Robert Andrich, the team's spokesman in good moments and bad, after the game. 'Last week we already messed it up. So this is a really good thing.' Nobody is saying that Bayern can feel Leverkusen breath on their necks just yet, but the narrowing of the gap at the top to six points leaves at least a frisson of suspense. And just like those recent defeats it was about the manner. 'You could see from the celebrations just how important the win, perhaps, could be,' continued Andrich. It was the recovery of that last-season feeling, that any situation could be rescued, that it's never over until Leverkusen say it is, that was so precious. Stuttgart have their own ambitions to recover, with a vital visit to Eintracht Frankfurt to come after the international break having fallen eight points behind the Champions League pace followed by a Pokal semi-final with Leipzig four days later. 'We have to dig a little deeper,' said Sebastian Hoeness, while defending his players. He can take something at least from the team that vanquished his on Sunday. That it's not over until it's over. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Bundesliga results St Pauli 1-0 Hoffenheim Werder Bremen 2-4 Borussia Mönchengladbach Union Berlin 1-1 Bayern Munich Mainz 2-2 Freiburg Augsburg 1-0 Wolfsburg RB Leipzig 2-0 Borussia Dortmund Bochum 1-3 Eintracht Frankfurt Heidenheim 3-1 Holstein Kiel Stuttgart 3-4 Bayer Leverkusen It still feels as if it will take an implosion from Bayern to truly reignite the race on a meaningful level, but they have now taken one point from the last two (very winnable) games, and it was a huge error by Jonas Urbig that presented former Bayern academy player Benedict Hollerbach with a late equaliser for Union. 'A few players were involved in that goal,' said Max Eberl, playing down the young goalkeeper's first major clanger. With two huge Champions League games with Inter on the horizon, a more incisive team performance would have been welcome. Still, they're not Dortmund, the Champions League quarter-finalists whose only chance of appearing in next season's edition would appear to be winning this season's competition after a fourth Bundesliga defeat in six under Niko Kovac on Saturday at Leipzig. 'I have to be clear,' said the coach, 'it's a catastrophe.' It was not their worst performance of late but it was clumsy at both ends. Major decisions must now be made and Bild's Michael Makus even suggested that Hans-Joachim Watzke might have to – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge style – postpone his retirement 'if he doesn't want his life's work to go to the dogs at record speed'. Leipzig's win, inspired by an excellent Loïs Openda, put them back into the top four mix, a race tightened by 10-man Mainz's creditable draw with Freiburg, who are sixth on level points with Marco Rose's team. Mainz stay third. This weekend also sadly marked the passing of one of the legends of the women's game, Doris Fitschen, at 56 after a long illness. Fitschen had been part of five Euro-winning squads with Germany before taking a management role with the DFB in retirement.
USA Today
04-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
How to Watch Holstein Kiel vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
How to Watch Holstein Kiel vs. VfB Stuttgart: Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time | 3/8/2025 VfB Stuttgart visits Holstein Kiel on Saturday in their second meeting in the Bundesliga this season (VfB Stuttgart won the first 2-1). The rematch starts at 9:30 AM ET. You can stream the match on ESPN+. VfB Stuttgart's last game was a 3-1 defeat at home against Bayern Munich while being outshot by six in the matchup, 15 to nine. Holstein Kiel earned a 1-0 road win against Union Berlin in its most recent match on March 2, even though it was outshot 13 to nine. How to watch Holstein Kiel vs. VfB Stuttgart When: Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM ET Where: Holstein-Stadion in Kiel, Germany Holstein-Stadion in Kiel, Germany Live Stream: ESPN+ Watch live sports and more without cable on ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. VfB Stuttgart key players Nick Woltemade is a key contributor for VfB Stuttgart, with eight goals and one assist. Ermedin Demirovic has eight goals (on 32 shots, 1.5 per game). Deniz Undav has seven goals and one assist. With one goal and six assists, Angelo Stiller is chipping in, too. Holstein Kiel key players Shuto Machino stars for Holstein Kiel, with seven goals and two assists. Phil Harres has six goals (on 19 shots, 0.9 per game) and one assist. Steven Skrzybski has added four goals and one assist. Armin Gigovic has four goals (on 14 shots, 0.6 per game). To watch live sports and more without cable, head to ESPN+. Click here to watch Bundesliga action. VfB Stuttgart vs. Holstein Kiel match breakdown
