Bayern start as they mean to go on. As for poor Bremen, they were never at the races, nervous, careless, disorganised and totally devoid of physicality and belief. On the face of it, only a top-flight team in the loosest sense of the word. He would have preferred a contest. Shame he did not see one. Coming hard on the heels of an humiliating loss to third tier, Lotte, in the German Cup, the good ship Werder already is listing badly and though club chief executive Frank Baumann, insists that coach, Viktor Skripnik is not under threat, the storm clouds definitely are gathering.
In the first-half in particular, the Royal Blues were nothing less than a ghost eleven and could thank their lucky stars, they were only one-nil down at the break. So many glaring inadequacies, not least the scant defensive co-ordination, ineffectiveness of the midfield holders, almost total failure to win second balls and lack of imagination and punch in attack.
Using target man, Franco Di Santo on the right-side of an attacking midfield trident did not work at all, while many were perplexed that Weinziel opted not to start two of his principal summer signings in Swiss striker, Breel Embolo and on loan Chelsea left-back, Abdul Rahman Baba.
Frequently pilloried for their corporate sugar daddy links, RB Leipzig proved they have heart as well as cash in their Bundesliga baptism, twice coming from a goal behind to secure their first-ever elite point in a draw at Hoffenheim.
Twenty-three years after the city of Leipzig last had a first division team β VfB Leipzig in β a well-organised and courageous RB stood toe-to-toe with the Hoffenheimer and thoroughly deserved their 90th minute equaliser from Austrian frontrunner, Marcel Sabitzer. No such happy ending, though, for reigning second tier champions, Freiburg, whose hopes of an away point at Hertha Berlin were agonisingly scuppered at the death. Most of the action in the capital was squeezed into five minutes of second-half injury time.
