Column, "added time": At the point of giving away the league the 1000-goal record

It is a look back into the distant past. In the early summer of 1985 Modern Talking perched in the single and album charts at number one, Joschka Fischer in sneakers can be sworn in as Hessian Minister of the Environment and in the Bundesliga for the last time, the 1000-goal mark cracked. At a phenomenal rate of 3.51 goals per game at the end of the 1984/85 season in 1074 there are gates to book.

The audience-attack-play this season, which has about Dortmund and Mainz, the remaining clubs catapulted the league in the extrapolation amazing up close to the magic 1000-goal barrier. The season's half-time the clubs were in full settlement of only 19 goals behind the target. This weekend was the 500 mark.

At the same time would not match better illustrate what the current generation is missing, you still to Klaus Allofs and Thomas, Rudi Voeller and Charles Allgood, the top scorer of that year to keep up. It was truly historic clock 90 minutes between 15.40 und 17.10 clock on Saturday afternoon.

were the first time in 32 years on a match day four of four penalty kicks missed. In the whole season in the pros ran from a point at 50 experiments 18 misses. An amazing value. And it is almost exactly the ports, the lack of cracking after a quarter of a century for the first time the 1,000-goal mark in a Bundesliga season.

Only one of the penalties was faded on Saturday due to an outstanding goalkeeping performance. Thomas Kraft's parade against Grafite was among the highlights of the weekend. The Freiburg Papiss Cissé, Javier Pinola 1 FC Nuremberg, Bavaria's Vice-Captain Philipp Lahm failed penalty spot on the nerves.

Their shots were ausrechenbar, too weak or unplaced. Hans-Joerg Butt, with 26 penalty goals, meet for the first Keeper of the Bundesliga history, considers the trend this season for accident. Penalty successes were always dependent on circumstances. The character of a game affects behavior at the point.

That the final men are better prepared than before the shooting, does not believe the Bayern substitute keeper. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta from the London School of Economics under investigation for a 9000 study penalty. A general statement, which shot decision, the most promising approach can be, his knowledge of it.

"Is optimal, it even earlier not to know. Franck Ribery says he does not know, before he shoots. Lionel Messi decides only if, on the Ball tapers, "said the economist in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Should the other hand, Oliver Kahn on British television, the strength of the Germans on penalties explained by the fact that they get from young said on already in the cabin, on which side they shoot in the case of the case." Paradoxically, the Germans are in this season, however, the Penalty-problem children.

The professionals from the country for decades - whether against France in 1982, England in 1990 and Argentina 1996 or 2006 - has not lost a penalty shoot more important fail in regularity, from the point. Werder's Torsten Frings and Cacau from VfB Stuttgart slips up twice already. Bavaria's national player Bastian Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Mario Gomez missed a penalty in each case.

There is hardly a German national player with a perfect penalty-balance. Even at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa Lukas Podolski failed in the 0-1 defeat in the group match against Serbia's nerves. And in the jersey in which Paul Breitner and Andy Brehme converted their penalty kick in the World Cup Finals in 1974 and 1990, mainly responsible for the last two world championships in Germany were.

In the league with the Chilean Arturo Vidal (6 goals in 6 penalty saves for Bayer Leverkusen) and Theofanis Gekas (3 / 3 for Eintracht Frankfurt), two foreign players, the best penalty takers. The best penalty-balance sheet under the goalkeepers next force, the only parried his penalty very short Bundesliga career with a 1-1 in Wolfsburg, curiously, a field player.

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