Last week the jubilee 55th season of the German Bundesliga started, which promises the spectator to be no less interesting than the previous one, even if one or two clubs really claim a title. The reason for this again will serve the main advantage of the German championship over the other of the TOP-4 - competition in the middle of the table. The level and strength of any championship, as is known, depends on it. And the two famous "newcomers" of the Bundesliga, once again raised in the elite of German football, Hanover and Stuttgart, will undoubtedly try to increase it.

The upcoming match of one of these newcomers, I, at your own peril and risk, entered the list of the three most interesting confrontations of the second round of the Bundesliga. And that's why ... Hannover - Schalke.

In fact, both clubs were absent from the elite of German football last season. Only if Hannover fought in the second Bundesliga, where he was initially considered one of the favorites, Schalke, hanging from the bottom of the table - until the beginning of its second half, was in deep search of himself as such. And the culprits of this disastrous campaign of "miners" I would call the leadership of the club, which does not tire of stepping on the same rake, changing coaches before each season start.

Did Schalke complain about the selection of players? No, he was strong enough and even famous. Not one football player managed to get the football community to talk about themselves, even despite the failed results of the team. And the final tenth place can not be called otherwise! This we have not remembered that gelzenkirhentsy long time suffered near the relegation zone, that such a club is categorically impermissible.

Having sent Markus Weinzirl to retirement after the end of the championship, the leadership of Schalke once again announces about the risky, in my opinion, appointment to the post of coach of the team. He was taken by 31-year-old Domenico Tedesco, who headed only in March the club of the second Bundesliga Erzgebirge Aue. Apparently, the directors of the "cobalt" convinced the excellent results of Tedesco, who in the first five games earned 13 points out of 15 possible and eventually saved his team from relegation, taking the 14th place.

Tedesco led Schalke in this offseason and said he would give every club player a chance. Most of all, it was our Zhenya Konoplyanka who was delighted by the fact that the German media had been actively searching for a new club for the last six months. It was the new coach who believed in the Ukrainian, for which he repaid him with a confident game in the friendly matches of the off-season, becoming one of the team leaders during the preparation for the season.

In general, and the game Schalke has changed dramatically, again, if we start from the last control matches of the team, the confrontation in the Cup and the first round of the Bundesliga. Tedesco focused on speed, greatly increasing the pace of the game "knappen". A significant strengthening in the construction of such a game was the acquisition of Arita. Already in the match of the first round, he gave an assist to the Linnet. By the way, it is in this style of the game that our flanking compatriot feels like a fish in the water, whose progress with a new coach is also visible to the naked eye.

Schalke confidently defeated the vice-champion of Germany Leipzig (2-0) and this victory can become his breath of confidence at such an important stage in the formation of a new team under the leadership of Tedesco. And the victory over Hanover can return the "cobalt" to the elite of the championship from its very beginning.

The hosts are approaching this confrontation with the most serious loss. Before the second round of the championship team captain Edgar Prib broke, torn ligaments of the knee. But even without his captain, the head coach of Hanover Andre Breitenreiter will be able to set up his team for a worthy battle with the clear favorite of this confrontation. After all for the mentor the match with Schalke will be a lot of principle, since only a year ago he was dismissed from the post of head coach Schalke, after which he was replaced by Weinzirl.

Hannover defeated Mainz on the road in the first round, which will give him more confidence in the match with Gelsenkirchen. However, the main trump card hosts can be the main transfer purchase of Hanover this summer: Brazilian striker Jonathas, bought from Kazan Rubin for 9 million euros, can make his debut in the new club already in the match against Schalke.

It is also interesting statistics of confrontations between Hannover and Schalke, where seven of eight matches were won by the hosts, however, despite it, the clear favorite in the confrontation for me personally will be guests.

Precisely do not play: Albornoz, Prib, Sarenren-Basse - Avdiyai, Burgstaller, Istanbul, Schopf.

Author's Forecast: victory for Schalke Bayer - Hoffenheim.

Last season Leverkusen Bayer did not score a single ball to one of the main discoveries of the year in Europe to Hoffenheim, losing to him both times (0: 3 and 0: 1). This despite the fact that for the "pharmacists" modest Hoffe was perhaps the most convenient contender in the championship, since before the last championship the "peasants" had only one victory with thirteen defeats in sixteen matches!.

In one of his interviews, when asked about the secret of his success with Hoffenheim, Julian Nagelsmann replied that his first task after the appointment was to raise the psychological spirit of the team that had always fought for survival. Convincing the outsider footballers that they can fight for the Champions League is a difficult task. In this, and opened the first petal of talent young coach - the ability to motivate.

Therefore, after the recent departure of Hoffenheim from the Champions League, coach of the year -2016 in Germany, undoubtedly, will be able to correctly bring his charges to the second round of the Bundesliga. Moreover, the first Euro-season in the history of the club is ahead, and behind - the first victorious game in the championship over Bremen Bremen (1: 0), that is, the nose hang early!.

Of course, without their leaders Zyule and Rudy Hoffe at first it will be very difficult, however, the club does not despair and conducts a quite confident transfer campaign. For 8 million redeemed replacement of ore - Nordtveit. It was taken in a one-year lease from Munich's Bavaria a magnificent opening in the composition of Werder last season Serge Gnabri. However, at the expense of participation in the match with Bayer last there is little doubt. The chances of returning to the field of the German national team after the injury are calculated as 50/50. In the same Bayer in this regard, more risk, because the question at once four players: Lars and Sven Bender, Kissling and Haverz.

In addition to the above statistics, this match can be called one of the central, if only because both clubs have the potential and will fight for the European Cups during the current season. Leverkusen has no right to lose the second starting match in a row, so the confrontation on the Allianz arena ended in defeat from Bavaria (1: 3). But here confuses not so much losing wards Heiko Herrlich, as the lack of proper resistance to the champion of the country.

To remove points from the embittered Hoffenheim will not be so easy, nevertheless, it is only in such matches that the authority is returned. Only they improve the reputation.

Exactly will not play: Ydvay Author's Forecast: draw Borussia Dortmund - Hertha.

This match I would call central in the second round of the Bundesliga. The third team in the course of the last season will take the sixth, and, "bumblebees" can not beat the metropolitan Herta in the championship since April 2016.

This is a confrontation between two completely different teams, because the hosts play spectacular, attacking and fast football, while Hertha - closed, slow, from defense. It is protection and will be the main weapon of guests on Westfallen and pierce it to Dortmund will be extremely hard. Especially without, finally, the departed team leader Usman Dembele, who, frankly, did not give rest to the fans of Borussia the last couple of weeks because of his saga with the transition to Barcelona. By the way, including because of the reliable defense of Herta, in the matches of these teams is not hammered more than three goals for almost three years.

What is interesting:

only in the two games of the current round will the winners of their confrontations meet in the first: Hannover-Schalke and Dortmund-Hertha.

Ukrainian spectators should definitely watch this match, because it is in him that he will be able to get acquainted with the game of the Berlin Herta - a rival of Lugansk Zarya in the group round of the League of Europe.

Precisely do not play: Guerrero, Royce, Schurrle - Klinsmann, Zelke, Kade, Lazzaro, Mittelstadt Author's Forecast: victory of Borussia.