1. Bundesliga match day 17: Augsburg’s Mohamed Amsif made a total of nine saves to earn FCA a point away to HSV.

Amsif’s performance stole the record from VFB Stuttgart’s Sven Ulreich for the most saves in a match this so far this season. Small wins. Keep fighting.

This video was from after the first match day at the FCA training prior to the away match at Kaiserslautern. First time I had seen Amsif and I was impressed.

More match day 17 stats from bundesliga.de

GOALS: 24 goals were scored this weekend – four more than the previous Matchday.

SPOT-KICKS: For the second weekend running there wasn’t a single penalty awarded in the Bundesliga.

SUPER-SUBS: Only 31 goals have been registered by players coming off the bench this season – the last time so few super-sub goals were scored in the first half of a campaign was in the 1993/94 season.

EARLY SHOWERS: This season has seen 40 red cards so far – the most since 2003/04 when 43 red cards were shown after 17 Matchdays.

SPECTACLE: On average there have been 45,186 people in attendance at Bundesliga games this season – a record for the first half of a campaign.

SETTING THE STANDARD: Schalke’s 5-0 win over Werder was the Royal Blues’ biggest win under Huub Stevens and their biggest ever win against Bremen.

FALLING SHORT: Bremen’s last four defeats have come at the hands of the current top four conceding 16 goals and scoring just once.

HAT-TRICK: Three shots on target were enough to secure Raul his third Bundesliga hat-trick, two of which have come against Bremen.

FULL THROTTLE: S04 set the tempo against Bremen with 154 sprints compared to the visitors 120.

AWAY WIN: Borussia Dortmund celebrated their highest away win of the season, whilst simultaneously handing Freiburg their biggest home defeat.

SETBACK: It was the ninth match in a row in which Freiburg have gone 1-0 behind – an unwanted first for SC. The last Bundesliga side to endure a run like that was Arminia Bielefeld.

CLINICAL: BVB scored with their first shot of the match in the first half as well as their first two in the second.

DIGRESSING: Hoffenheim experienced the worst first half of a season in their short Bundesliga history (22 points).

DEADLY FROM DISTANCE: Sejad Salihovic’s long-range pile driver was the sixth goal Hoffenheim have scored from distance as well as the seventh that Hertha BSC have conceded – more than any other Bundesliga team.

LEAKY: HSV allowed Augsburg 25 shots at goal, more than in any of their matches in the first half of the season.

HOME COMFORTS: Paolo Guerrero scored in his fourth consecutive home game – something he’s never previously managed as a HSV player.

SLACK: Leverkusen have recorded their worst first half of a season in five years. (26 points).

LANDMARK: In their 500th Bundesliga away match, Nuremberg managed to secure their first win in Leverkusen in nine years.

PERPETUAL MOTION: Der Club ran a total of seven kilometres (119km) more that Bayer (112km).

BOGEY TEAM: Stuttgart have struggled in Wolfsburg in recent seasons, losing their last five matches at the Volkswagen Arena.

ACCOUNT OPEN: Sebastian Polter scored his first Bundesliga goal against VfB with his only shot of the game and only his third shot in the Bundesliga.

FRONT-RUNNERS: Bayern have secured the honorary ‘winter title’ for finishing top at the halfway stage of the season – for the 17th time in their history – 14 of the previous 16 occurrences have preceded FCB claiming the real title.

RECORD: Following his side’s 3-0 win against Köln, Bayern boss Jupp Heynckes has now won 455 Bundesliga matches as a player and head coach to take the all-time record away from Otto Rehhagel (454).

FIRST: Toni Kroos scored his first Bundesliga goal of the 2011/12 season with his 33rd attempt on goal.