The evening began with a show of respect from the visiting Borussia Mönchengladbach fans. It ended with anything but. As their players emerged onto the BayArena pitch to face Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, Gladbach’s 4,000 travelling fans held aloft black pieces of plastic, creating a tifo in memory of well-known fan Waltraud “Walli” Hamraths, who recently died at the age of 83.

In the circumstances, Gladbach’s players shouldn’t have been surprised http://www.dolphinsauthenticjerseys.com/Authentic-Chase-Allen-Jersey at what Authentic Lance Dunbar Jersey happened at the end. They C. J. Prosise Jersey were, again, hugely disappointing in a match in which they had the opportunity to haul themselves back into the incredibly open Champions League race against a direct rival. Remembering Walli, perhaps, stirred memories of the club’s 1970s glory days, in which he was famous for wildly celebrating.

It’s fine that the era of Jupp Heynckes, http://www.miamidolphinsauthorizedstore.com/koa-misi-jersey-elite Allan Simonsen, Rainer Bonhof and company feels a long time ago – it was. Nobody is expecting http://www.officialauthenticfalconshop.com/Nike-Duke-Riley-Jersey.html a reprise, especially in the era of the Bayern Munich behemoth. More than what is being offered currently, however, would be nice. What should have been a keenly-fought battle for tangible reward was one-way traffic, with Heiko Herrlich’s side cruising until a late second-half wobble twice allowed Gladbach a sniff of an equaliser – one a glaring miss from the head of Filip Drmić and the other an attempted clearance from Wendell that Bernd Leno brilliantly tipped over.

If anybody was fooled by the late mini-flourish it should be reiterated that the visitors’ best chance was from the boot of a Leverkusen player. Substitute Julian Brandt’s stoppage-time strike to seal it was more just that your average late counter-attacking goal, giving a more realistic sheen to the scoreline.

The visiting fans had seen more than enough. Having chanted Garry Gilliam Womens Jersey “wir wollen euch kämpfen sehen” – we want to see you fight – for a number of minutes, the players were booed and whistled by sections of the support as they approached the away fans, and the whistles continued as they went down the tunnel. “I fought and gave everything,” midfielder Christoph Kramer said afterwards. “But every fan is allowed to sing what they want.”

While the tribute at the opening of proceedings might have let a mind or two wander back to the sensational 70s, there was no avoiding reality. Leverkusen and Gladbach, like Schalke, came into this season in a similar boat, with no European football and time in the calendar to plan and to pace themselves as they attempted to regain it.

Schalke – who retained second place thanks to Daniel Caligiuri’s superb winner at Mainz on Friday night – and Leverkusen started further back, both bedding in new coaches after turbulent ends to last season. http://www.officialdiamondbackshop.com/authentic-16-chris-owings-je... Herrlich, whose appointment was met by a thoroughly underwhelmed reaction, was faced with a rebuild too. So those Gladbach fans have every right to ask why they are lagging so badly behind Leverkusen in particular. There Dalton Prout Womens Jersey was, as Westdeutsche Zeitung’s Jochen Schmitz wrote, “almost a gap in class” between the two sides on Saturday.

Die Fohlen largely got away with it during the first half, as Leon Bailey was as scattershot as he was electrifying. After Bailey did get it right – with his cross to the back post nodded back by Kevin Volland and then in by the impressive Lucas Alario – it rarely seemed that Dieter Hecking’s team would come back.

It was all too familiar. Gladbach have lost six of their last seven away games, failing to score in five of them. Germany’s Lars Stindl, who battled gamely here as always, hasn’t scored for 14 games, but then again none of the team’s forwards has struck since Thorgan Hazard in the 20 January win over Augsburg. Raúl Bobadilla, yet to score in his second spell at the club after returning last summer, was dragged off just past the hour mark. cheap nfl jerseys cheap nfl jerseys cheap jerseys from china cheap jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys from china