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Matchday 14: 1. FC Union Berlin 2-0 1. FC Köln

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Have you accepted your lord and savior Sebastian Andersson? source: Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Friedrich, Hübner, Parensen; Lenz, Trimmel, Gentner, Andrich (Kroos); Ingvartsen (Ryerson), Polter (Bülter), Andersson 1. FC Köln: Horn; Schmitz, Bornauw, Sobiech, Katterbach; Höger (Kainz), Ehizibue (Schaub), Verstraete, Drexler; Cordoba, Terrode (Modeste) Goals: Union: Andersson (33, 50)  The home game against Köln on Sunday was a funny thing. On one hand, a top-flight fixture against a team that you played last year in the second division (and took four of six points from, lest we forget) is decidedly less glamorous than, say, Bayern Munich away. On the other hand, what the game against Köln lacked in glamour it made up for in absolute necessity. These are the games you have to win in order to avoid relegation -- the ones at home, against opposition on your level, surrounded by the most passionate fans in the league. If you can’t snag all three points in that sc
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Matchday 12: 1. FC Union Berlin 2-0 Borussia Mönchengladbach

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With six goals so far this season, Sebastian Andersson leads Union and is the fourth in the league's top scorers list. Source: Union Berlin. 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Subotic, Friedrich, Schlotterbeck; Trimmel, Kroos (Schmiedebach), Gentner, Lenz; Ingvartsen (Ryerson), Ujah (Bülter), Andersson Borussia Mönchengladbach: Sommer; Elvedi (Strobl), Ginter, Kramer; Wendt, Zakaria, Neuhaus (Stindl), Laimer; Plea, Thuram (Embolo), Herrmann Goals: Union: Ujah (15), Andersson (90+1) How many times does a shock result have to occur before it stops being described as shocking? Because, for the second time this season, Union Berlin handily beat the team at the top of the Bundesliga. While this game was against a different team than it was the first time around (though still one whose name begins with Borussia), there’s no denying that it was a giant-killing. Yet with four wins from their last five games, Union are showing on a regular basis that despite an inglorious start to to
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Matchday 11: 1. FSV Mainz 05 2-3 1. FC Union Berlin

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Is it weird that this is my favorite Union kit this season? source: Union Berlin. 1. FSV Mainz 05: Zentner; Brosinski, Martin (Burkhart), St. Juste, Niakhate; Boetius (Onisiwo), Fernandes, Baku; Öztunali (Maxim), Quaison, Szalai 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Schlotterbeck (Parensen), Friedrich, Subotic; Lenz, Trimmel, Gentner, Andrich, Ingvartsen; Polter (Kroos), Andersson (Ujah) Goals: Mainz: Onisiwo (81), Brosinski (90+4) Union: Brosinski OG (30), Andersson (45+3, 51) As we head into the November international break, things have started to shape up nicely for Union Berlin. They’ve won four of their last five games across all competitions, and the one loss was 2-1 away at Bayern -- a much less ignominious defeat than many bigger clubs have suffered at the Allianz. Those four wins include a DFB-Pokal tie away at Freiburg that sees them face Regionalliga side Verl in the next round. They sit in 11th place in the table, one spot above Hertha, cementing their status as Stadt
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Matchday 9: FC Bayern Munich 2-1 1. FC Union Berlin

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Polter penalty! source: Bild FC Bayern Munich: Neuer; Kimmich, Pavard, Boateng, Davies; Thiago, Coutinho (Goretzka), Muller; Perisic (Tolisso), Lewandowski, Coman (Gnabry) 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Trimmel, Subotic, Friedrich, Lenz; Kroos (Becker), Andrich, Gentner; Ingvartsen (Ujah), Andersson (Polter), Bülter Goals: Bayern: Pavard (13), Lewandowski (53) Union: Polter (86)  It’s been a weird season so far in the Bundesliga. Borussia Mönchengladbach currently sit top of the table, with SC Freiburg and Wolfsburg also occupying Champions League qualification spots. Meanwhile, the usual suspects in the title race continue to drop points and just look generally unimpressive against sides that they would typically dominate. The result has been a far more exciting start to the season than we’ve had in quite some time, even if we’re only nine matches in with plenty of time left for Bayern to get, like, Gareth Bale on loan and just steamroll over everyone else again. Speaking of B
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Matchday 8 Recap: 1. FC Union Berlin 2 - 0 SC Freiburg

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Marius Bülter has three league goals so far this season, all coming in Union's two wins. source: Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Parensen, Schlotterbeck, Friedrich; Trimmel, Lenz, Andrich, Gentner (Kroos); Ingvartsen, Andersson (Ujah), Bülter (Mees) SC Freiburg: Schwolow (Thiede); Lienhart, Koch, Heintz; Günter, Höfler, Abrashi (Petersen), Schmid, Haberer; Waldschmidt, Höler (Grifo) Union Berlin didn’t take much time to get back to winning ways after the international break, with the first of their two goals coming in literally the first minute of the home match against Freiburg. They didn’t score again until the 84th minute, yet despite the tight scoreline and having the minority share of possession (39%), Union appeared to be in full control of the game throughout. A sharp cry from most of their performances in the top flight so far, with the exception of their already legendary 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund. So, what changed? In their last game before th
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Matchday 5: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 - 0 1. FC Union Berlin

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GDI Polti.  Bayer Leverkusen: Hradecky; L. Bender (Weiser), S. Bender, Dragovic, Wendell; Baumgartlinger (Demirbay); Amiri (Paulinho), Aranguiz, Volland, Havertz; Alario 1. FC Union Berlin: Gikiewicz; Trimmel, Friedrich, Schlotterbeck, Lenz (Reichel); Gentner, Andrich; Bülter, Ingvartsen (Polter), Becker (Gogia); Andersson Goals: Leverkusen: Volland (20), Alario (25) Union Berlin have not won away from Berlin in league play since they defeated Holstein Kiel 1-0 back in March. Indeed, the team managed promotion while only winning three league games total, and two of those three teams ended up relegated from the 2. Bundesliga by the end of the season. (Though we mustn’t forget that they managed to take Borussia Dortmund all the way to extra time in their cup tie at the Westfalenstadion before eventually losing 3-2 -- clearly there is something about playing Borussia Dortmund that works for Union!)  All of this is a roundabout way of saying that to expect Union Berlin to pick
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Preview: Bayer 04 Leverkusen v. 1. FC Union Berlin

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BayArena, Leverkusen Saturday, September 21 9:30 a.m. EDT, 15:30 CEST Match Officials Referee: Robert Hartmann Assistants: Christian Dietz and Markus Schüller 4th Official: Nicolas Winter Video Assistant: Robert Kampka All-Time in All Competitions: 2 Leverkusen wins Union's League Position: 12th, 4 points, -3 GD Union's League Form:  D-D // L-D-W-L Leverkusen's League Position: 8th, 7 points, -1 GD  Leverkusen's League Form:  D-W // W-W-D-L Team News Neven Subotić will serve a one-match ban for his second yellow card sending off (the German "Gelb-Rot" is a much cleaner phrase, in my opinion) against Bremen. Grischa Prömel, still out with a knee injury, is unavailable as well. Urs Fischer also mentioned that the club will be without "three who played in the Baltic Sea Cup," which is an Under-21 tournament, where Union lost 2-1 to Halmstads. Those three were ostensibly Lennard Maloney, Julius Kade, and Maurice Opfer
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