Germany Cup "DFB Pokal" quarter-finals!
Posted 07. april 2015
The dream edges ever closer. Only eight teams remain. Who will lift the trophy? Who will win the DFB Cup? The quarter-finals will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. FC Bayern are top of the Bundesliga, they’re in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and the DFB Cup and could set a new record. No team has ever won the DFB Cup three times in a row. However, qualification to the next round isn’t certain, if you look back at their last game in the cup against Leverkusen. They have won three of the last four meetings between the two sides in the Bundesliga though. They were knocked out of the DFB Cup in the quarter-finals back in 2009 by Leverkusen after losing 4-2 in their previous cup meeting. The goals for Leverkusen that day were scored by Tranquillo Barnetta, Arturo Vidal, Patrick Helmes and Stefan Kießling, with Lucio and Miroslav Klose scoring for FCB.
Extra info: All of the teams in the quarter-finals have received €1.976 million from the DFB so far. Getting through to the semi-finals is very lucrative for the clubs that do so as they will receive a further €2.073 million. The bonuses for the final have not been confirmed yet.
The biggest surprise in the DFB Cup this season have been Arminia Bielefeld. The leaders of the 3. Liga would like to add another Bundesliga team to their list of scalps after already knocking out Hertha BSC and Werder Bremen. Borussia Mönchengladbach will visit Bielefeld in the quarter-finals. The remaining teams to reach the quarter-finals along with the four best teams in the Bundesliga this season – FC Bayern München, VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen – are SC Freiburg, TSG Hoffenheim and Borussia Dortmund.
FC Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund and VfL Wolfsburg are all in the last eight of the DFB Cup for the third time in a row. Bayern have won the cup 17 times and have reached at least the quarter-finals in every season since 2007/2008. The last team to stop them from doing that was Alemannia Aachen, who beat the record holders 4-2 at home on 20th December 2006.
