a beautiful victory by BVB

With an extremely clinical display of balanced Football and good defending die Schwarzgelben defeated Karlsruher SC 1-0. As expected KSC put up a great fight and narrowly missed defeating Jürgen Klopp's side but Mohamed Zidan's goal twenty minutes into the match proved to be the deciding strike. The victory puts BVB in fourth place of the Bundesliga table, awaiting todays results.

The match was definitely not free of controversy as KSC had a Edmond Kapllani goal called back with a late offside call and a further goal oddly called back that looked to be cleared-out from behind the line. However BVB took the lead twenty minutes after the start when Hungarian international Tamás Hajnal swung in a pin-point cross in-close that Mohamed Zidan flicked past KSC 'keeper Markus Miller who otherwise played a perfect match. Following the break, with the loyal support of the Wildparkstadion behind then, KSC was clearly the aggressor but they couldn't breakthrough a great back line performance, most notably by Mats Hummels and Neven Subotić. Jakub Blaszczykowski's pace was a tactical weapon as always and as KSC through forward, his runs threatened to extend the lead and kept the home side honest. However in the end Roman Weidenfeller's work between the pipes in keeping his second consecutive clean sheet gave BVB the victory and three points.

Has Neven Subotić decided?

Born in the former Republic of Yugoslavia Neven Subotić has apparently made the intensely watched decision to play for Serbia. The matter garnered a great deal of interest given its unique situation and his representation for American U-17 and U-20 sides. The murky situation started with Neven's family fleeing the civil wars of his birth-place at two years of age for Germany and then immigrating to the United States when he was eleven. While joining FSV Mainz in 2005 he also accepted call-ups for the US U-17 squad and later the U-20 but later decided that he would prefer to represent Germany. With the recent change to FIFA's rulings on nationality that was no longer necessary and he would have to decide between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the U.S. While he is presently not on the White Eagles squad list for their upcoming friendly, he is expected to join them for their next match.