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City drawing today was somewhat unexpected. On the other hand...they haven't really been on point all season, have they?

Hannover seems to be the Bundesliga's top candidate for relegation this year. 17 points after 26 games and they haven't shown any signs of of rallying as of now. Hoffenheim, on the other hand, seems to be on the verge of boucing back: 24 points after a 1-0 grinding against Wolfsburg mean a 3 pts deficit to one of the secure spots in the division. Darmstad gave away a two-goal-lead, conceeding the equalizer against relegation-battle-rivals within the dying minutes of the game. The netherregions of the table are as much a tense and dramatic afair as always.

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Leverkusen beating Hamburg in a close game by 1-0, thanks to an early own goal from Ekdal.

Dortmund still kind of hunting Bayern. 2-0 win over Mainz. Two Dortmund fans suffered from heart attacks, one of those fatal. Apparently, this led to complete and utter silence inside the stadium. Seemingly pretty impressive accoustically, haven't Seen the match. Weird final stretch. Condolences to the family of the deceased.

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The Clásico Nacional on Univision Deportes was a great game. The refs cost Chivas of a draw big time as it should've ended 2-2 but the first got goal was disallowed.

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Realistically, and asking the guys in the know about BPL, which are the tricky games left for Leicester. They are playing an away game at ManU and West Ham & Southhampton at home. The rest is mid- and lower table, right?

Still, anyone can beat anyone. Amazing season.

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They go away to Chelsea on May 15, which is no joke. But Tottenham also have to go to Stamford Bridge, as do Man City.

 

I don't think any of the Top run-ins are significantly bettter/worse than anyone else's - a lot of pressure on Arsenal and Man City though; neither team can make 80 points and another loss and they can barely make 75.

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Realistically the title is probably out of reach. Then again, we said that in 2012 and 2014. (Hmmm... two years apart... it's two years since we won the title... you don't think...)

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Of the top 4, Leicester's run in is the easiest on paper. But they don't play matches on paper, they play them on football pitches. Who would have thought that Rafa would start the season taking Real Madrid into the Champion's League, and end it taking Newcastle into the Championship?

 

Although, if Sunderland stay up by one point or on goal difference everyone will say those are Adam Johnson's goals and if the club had a heart or a soul, he wouldn't have been playing... 

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Realistically the title is probably out of reach. Then again, we said that in 2012 and 2014. (Hmmm... two years apart... it's two years since we won the title... you don't think...)

 

Anything is possible, but expecting Leicester to absolutely dog it at this stage requires a lot of imagination (Tottenham less so perhaps). 74 points might well get you the title, 72 is not even completely inconceivable - but it's pretty hard to imagine 70 being enough.

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I have just spent the last half an hour reading The Guardian's online updates of the Bayern-Juventus score, because I don't get the channel that it aired on live. Pleased with the results, and hoping for a Fox Sports local affiliate replay later this week.

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Something tells me Kingsley Coman isn't going to reappear at Juventus after his loan period at Bayern ends. Knocking out the team you're on loan from...

 

(edit: To explain, Bayern paid Juventus 7 million for a two year loan, with a 21 million buy clause at the end of it.)

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Wow, monumental collapse from Juve there, so disappointing.  They really could have been up 3 or 4-0 at one point, but then Allegri decides to take out all the speedy attackers and play Italian defense for the 2nd half of the game, and that is probably the dumbest thing you could do against a team with Munich's Offense.  Bayern has some players who are just insanely good though, Douglas Costa, Lewandowski, Muller, Ribery, Vidal.... And then they just get overrun in extra time by Thiago and their old boy Coman, what a heartbreaker!

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