At long last the Bundesliga returns! German football proved itself well worth the wait this weekend as six of the nine fixtures played featured four or more goals. There were wild results and plenty of surprises all across the table. Our weekly Sunday evening recap fixture returns alongside the world’s best footballing beat to lend coverage to all of the nine matches just completed. The first “Tactics Talk” of the new calendar year features draw ups for Bayern, Dortmund, Stuttgart, and 1. FC Union Berlin. Wolfsburg’s surprise 6-0 win over Freiburg takes 2023’s first “focus” section.