With the mighty Bayern Munich conquering the top of the Bundesliga table again last weekend, Leverkusen only managing two draws from their last two games and Schalke insisting they are still legitimate candidates with a 2-1 derby victory over Dortmund, the race for the title is now rapidly gathering momentum.
Despite the scrap among the lofty branches of the Bundesliga tree being thrillingly exciting, the scrap at the lower end of the trunk is unquestionably more intriguing. Especially as a team who nary a pundit had tipped to be struggling for their life is in fact doing that very thing – Hannover 96. They are languishing in seventeenth place with a measly 17 points from 24 games, and with Saturday’s encounter at fellow strugglers Freiburg being a clich
