The heroes and the flops of the sixth Bundesliga matchday | OneFootball

Another weekend is over and that, obviously, means more Bundesliga awards have to be handed out.

The ‘Top of the League’ Award

We don’t really care who wins the Bundesliga and we expect it to be Bayern Munich. It’s just nice to see someone else top the table for once.

With Bayern slipping up two games in a row, Dortmund have capitalised. Saturday’s win against Bayer Leverkusen was a historic one:

The ‘More than a Club’ Award

Not Barcelona, rather Hertha BSC. The Bundesliga’s capital club made a stand against racism with their latest message.

The marketing slogan the club Hertha have recently adopted reads: “In Berlin, you can be anything. Even Hertha!”

That changed on Friday evening, with the players wearing jackets reading: “In Berlin, you can be anything. Except racist.”

Nicely done.

The ‘Historically bad own goal’ Award

A throw-in back to the goalkeeper, but the goalkeeper wasn’t expecting it. Ron-Robert Zieler moved to stop the ball at the very last moment, giving it a slight touch but not enough to stop it from rolling into the net.

Werder Bremen boss Florian Kohfeldt was looking away and missed the entire thing.

“That was possibly Bundesliga history and I – an idiot – wasn’t looking!”

The ‘Tongue-tied’ Award

Finally a win for Schalke!

But another small defeat for Domenico Tedesco, who had a slightly embarrassing press conference moment.

Then came the reply from a journalist: “What do you do in the dressing room?!”

At least he saw the funny side.

The ‘Rocky Balboa’ Award

Just like a Rocky film. Just days before, Nürnberg lost 7-0 to Borussia Dortmund.

Cue inspirational training montage.

On Saturday, Nürnberg recovered, with their cuts sealed and their bloodied nose bandaged up, to beat Düsseldorf. An important three points in the fight against relegation.

Somehow, Rocky always picks himself up and wins in the end.

The ‘Dyslexia’ Arwad

Down to the 2. Bundesliga for a moment, where 57,000 fans turned up for Hamburg’s derby against city rivals St. Pauli.

You wouldn’t want to make an embarrassing error in front of so many people, would you? Oh dear.

A banner displayed before the game had a pretty glaring typo, spelling out “verzweiFEIfelt” rather than “verzweifelt”.

Onefootball are more than familiar with spelling mistakes but we don’t hang ours up at televised and sold out football matches, we’ll leave that to our readers.