Bayern Munich have been held to a 1-1 draw at Union Berlin on Saturday, giving protecting champions Bayer Leverkusen an outdoor probability of dragging themselves again into the Bundesliga identify race.
Bayern, who additionally dropped issues in a awe loss at house to Bochum utmost time, might be simply six issues forward if Leverkusen win at Stuttgart on Sunday.
“It was a game of two stories: the performance and the result,” mentioned Bayern trainer Vincent Kompany. “I’ve been in soccer lengthy enough quantity to understand this wasn’t a malicious efficiency clear of house.
“Sometimes when you don’t score it’s not because the strikers don’t put it in, it’s because the defenders and the keepers do a lot of things right.”
Bayern had many of the ball however struggled to split via a resolute Union defence.
With few possibilities within the opening duration, Bayern’s easiest probability got here upcoming 51 mins when Harry Kane drilled a free-kick during the wall however into the arms of Frederik Ronnow.
Leroy Sane put the guests forward upcoming 75 mins when he skated via a crowded penalty segment to faucet in a Josip Stanisic cross.
Union have been alternatively the simpler group upcoming the function and the hosts levelled via Benedict Hollerbach, who was once at the spot to benefit from an error from green goalkeeper Jonas Urbig.
Union rose in depth within the demise phases however have been not able to land the killer fritter away which might have viewable them beat Bayern for the primary moment of their historical past, on their twelfth try.
Regardless of soaring dangerously akin to the relegation spots for a lot of the season, Union have a robust file at house in opposition to the league’s easiest aspects.
Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Eintracht Frankfurt, Mainz, Freiburg and now Bayern have all left Berlin with out profitable.
Union trainer Steffen Baumgart credited his facet’s “passion in defence”, pronouncing the hosts had “won a point that nobody would have expected” as they went seven unclouded of the relegation spots.
• Dortmund woes proceed in Leipzig –
Champions League finalists in June, Dortmund’s probabilities of achieving the contest nearest season glance over upcoming a 2-0 loss at RB Leipzig left them in eleventh spot.
The hosts took the govern upcoming 18 mins when Xavi Simons tapped in a rebound upcoming a Leipzig counter.
Lois Openda fantastically volleyed house Simons’ floated nook to double the govern simply upcoming half-time.
Dortmund laid siege to Leipzig’s penalty segment in the second one half of however may just now not split via in spite of a wealth of possibilities, with striker Serhou Guirassy spurning a number of just right alternatives.
Dortmund will now desire a surprise to keep away from lacking the Champions League for simply the second one moment within the week 15 seasons.
Leipzig’s win took them to 5th, stage on issues with fourth-placed Frankfurt, who play games at Bochum on Sunday. Dortmund are seven issues in the back of.
Not likely Champions League applicants Mainz and Freiburg drew 2-2. Hosts Mainz, decreased to ten males when Dominik Kohr noticed pink upcoming 43 mins, two times took the govern however Freiburg equalised each instances.
The outcome leaves Mainz 3rd and Freiburg 6th, with neither facet having ever performed within the Champions League.
An Alassane Plea hat-trick took Borussia Moenchengladbach to a 4-2 win at Werder Bremen, conserving the guests not off course for a go back to Ecu soccer.
Plea’s first-half brace had Gladbach not off course however Bremen scored two times in seven mins via Romano Schmid and Andre Silva, his first for the membership, to stage issues up at half-time.
Plea scored simply two mins into the second one half of and Germany striker Tim Kleindienst added any other to seal the victory.
Augsburg’s noteceable 2025 endured with a 1-0 house win over Wolfsburg, with Phillip Tietz scoring the one function.
Augsburg are actually unbeaten in 10 within the league and feature conceded simply 3 objectives this calendar age, the bottom mark within the supremacy 5 Ecu leagues.
AFP