WEEKEND WRAP: Sunday 4/3/2016 - Sweden Kick's Off League Play, Plus more

As much drama as happened yesterday, today was a little respite. Sweden kicked off its league play, 2 of the 3 US players in Allsvenskan were in their clubs 18, (the other plays tomorrow) both played. The big game of the day was M'Gladbach v Hertha in Bundesliga. Both Fabian Johnson and John Brooks carrying injuries from their USMNT break. Fabian (Groin) played (90/Assist) John (Ankle) did not make the 18. The result was a lopsided 5 - 0 win for M'Gladbach, who have moved into 4th place, just 3 points behind Hertha in the race to qualify for next seasons UCL.

Lets go to the list...... 

GK Daniel Schmidt started, went 90 as Yamaga visited Nagasaki in Japans J-League. Yamaga scored first, but had to settle for a 1 - 1 draw

Christian Pulisic started and went 67 minutes for Dortmund's Junior team as they beat FC Klon 1- 0 to maintain there lead at the top of the table. Yes Christian played 10 minutes for the senior squad yesterday

In Regionalliga Nordost, Ken Gipson, started, went 69 minutes and picked up a yellow card as RB Leipzig II fell 1 - 0 to Oberlausitz

Also in Regionalliga Nordost, Masami Okada started, went the 90, as Schonberg beat Luckenwalde 2 - 1

Shawn Barry, started, went 90, as Frankfurt lost 0 - 3 at home to Nurnberg in Germany 2Liga

Andrew Wooten played all 90 minutes for Sandhausen as they visited Kaiserslautern. Final 2 - 0 loss

In Regionalliga Bayern, Jann George started and played all 90 minutes for Regensburg as they fell 1 - 0 at Buchbach. The loss cut Regensburg's lead at the top of the table to just 1 point

Eugene Starikov came off the bench for Odessa at minute 55 but was unable to impact the game as visitors Odessa settled for a 1 - 1 draw with Volyn Lutsk in Ukraine's Pari-Match League.

In Denmark's Bet25 Liga, Conor O'Brien started and went 90 as Horsens beat Koge 2 - 0 to put themselves in 2nd spot in the league, with a chance of promotion to Superliga.

In Sweden, AFC United and GK Josh Wicks started the new season with a 0 - 2 win at Dagefors, in Superettan

In Netherlands, Desevio Payne came off the bench at the 85th minute, in Groningen's 0 - 1 win at Den Haag in Eredivisie (Groningen played 60 minutes a man down)

In Sweden's Allsvenskan, GK Matt Pyzdrowski and Helsingborg visited Gefle and came away with a 1 - 1 draw in their opening day game.

In Germany's Bundesliga, Fabian Johnson started, went 90 and had an Assist, as M'Gladbach punished Hertha 5 - 0. (John Brooks not in 18 for Hertha, injury)

Tim Howard, in the 18 (DNP) as Everton fell at Manchester United 1 - 0 in the EPL

Brendan Hines-Ike, came off the bench at 86th minute, as Orebro fall 0 - 2 to Djurgarden on Sweden's Allsvenskan opening day.

GK Alex Horwath, was in 18 (DNP) as Brann visited Aalesund in Norway's Tippeligaen and came away with a 1 - 2 win