The Czech football representative Patrik Schick scored a goal in the German league for the second time in a row and helped Leverkusen to win 4: 1 in Augsburg. After the third round, Bayer jumped to the top of the table with seven points.
Bayern crushed Hertha 5-0 at home and is second in the score. The Berlin team with alternating Vladimir Darida was left without a point last. Robert Lewandowski shone with a hat-trick, beating the 300-goal mark for the reigning champions. Before him, only the recently deceased Gerd Müller succeeded.
Leverkusen created a two-goal lead in the opening quarter after Iag and Niederlechner’s own goals, which he reduced in the 30th minute. Schick scored his second goal of the league in the 75th minute after an individual action and a shot in the top corner. Wirtz then insured the triumph of the guests.
Goalkeeper Tomáš Koubek remained on the Augsburg bench, which is penultimate with one point, his teammate Jan Morávek was missing due to an injury.
Bayern decided on the fourth competition victory in a row in the first half, when Thomas Müller and Lewandowski scored. Shortly after the change of sides, he raised Musial and in the end, Hertha’s debacle completed Lewandowski with two more hits. The Polish gunner scored for the Munich team in the 16th competition duel in a row, thus breaking the record of Gerd Müller.
Rookie Fürth lost 0: 3 in Mainz and is also waiting for his final league win this year. Today, Frankfurt did not see it either, drawing 1: 1 on the Bielefeld field. Freiburg won in Stuttgart 3: 2 and is second by Leverkusen.
German Football League – Round 3:
Augsburg – Leverkusen 1: 4 (30. Niederlechner – 3rd own Iago, 14th owned Niederlechner, 75th Schick, 81st Wirtz), Bielefeld – Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 1 (86. Wimmer – 22. Hauge), Cologne – Bochum 2: 1 (82. Schaub, 90. + 1 Lemperle – 90. + 4 Zoller), Mainz – Furth 3: 0 (15. Lucoqui, 18. Szalai, 90. + 2 Stöger), Stuttgart – Freiburg 2: 3 (45. Mavropanos, 45. + 2 Al Ghaddioui – 3. a 9. Čong U-jong, 28. Höler), Bayern Munich – Hertha Berlin 5: 0 (36th, 70th and 84th Lewandowski, 6. Müller, 49. Musiala).
Table:
| 1. | Leverkusen | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9:2 | 7 |
| 2. | Bayern Mnichov | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9:3 | 7 |
| 3. | Freiburg | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5:3 | 7 |
| 4. | Dortmund | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9:6 | 6 |
| 5. | Cologne | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7:5 | 6 |
| 6. | Mainz | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4:2 | 6 |
| 7. | Wolfsburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3:1 | 6 |
| 8. | Hoffenheim | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8:5 | 4 |
| 9. | Leipzig | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4:1 | 3 |
| 10. | Bochum | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3:3 | 3 |
| 11. | Bielefeld | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2:2 | 3 |
| 12. | Stuttgart | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7:8 | 3 |
| 13. | Union Berlin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3:3 | 2 |
| 14. | Eintracht Frankfurt | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3:6 | 2 |
| 15. | Mönchengladbach | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1:5 | 1 |
| 16. | Fürth | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2:9 | 1 |
| 17. | Augsburg | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1:8 | 1 |
| 18. | Hertha Berlin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2:10 | 0 |
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