
Andy Brassell
Football Writer at Freelance
European football writing/talking on @guardian_sport @footballramble @talkSPORT & others. NBA. Too many trainers. Latest book We Play On out now (link below)
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msn.com | Andy Brassell
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theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
Team of the seasonIt’s Bayern Munich, despite Mainz and Freiburg, unexpected troublers of the European places, deserving praise for their stratospheric improvement from 2023-24. The Rekordmeister is rarely more provoked than when presented with serious opposition, and Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen had done just that with last term’s domestically unbeaten double-winning exploits. Leverkusen were still excellent but could simply not match Bayern’s pace in the end.
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theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
The last time Borussia Dortmund had enjoyed an end-of-season run-in as successful as this was that season. Nearly two years on Niko Kovac and company didn’t quite lay the ghost of 2023 but began to definitively draw a line under the fallout from it. On this occasion BVB faced what should have been a straightforward final day task at home and made it so.
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3 weeks ago |
msn.com | Andy Brassell
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theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
It was the last two and a half years in a nutshell; deliciously inventive, daringly late and, quite frankly, a bit too good for Borussia Dortmund. As stoppage time ticked on Florian Wirtz received the ball on the left, seemingly without an angle for a cross; so he dug out a spinning ball with the outside of his foot, spearing it to the back post.
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It’s @otcpod Monday digest, on Sporting closing on a second straight Liga title despite losing Amorim and a three-coach season https://t.co/QU4vHuObU6

A fond farewell for Xabi Alonso in his last Leverkusen home game, despite the surprise element of a Dortmund win to keep them alive in the Champions League race. This week’s @guardian_sport Bundesliga column https://t.co/ENfQ96Xs4Z

RT @talkSPORT: TRANS EURO EXPRESS PODCAST 🤝 @dannykellywords and @andybrassell are back as they discuss Barca beating Real Madrid AGAIN, X…