The weekend couldn’t have gone better for Bayern Munich. The 2-1 (1-0) success over Freiburg was lackluster, but in the table Bayern were able to shake off their pursuers. Leipzig are four points behind after their 2-2 draw against Wolfsburg. Leverkusen (0: 1 against Union Berlin) and Dortmund (1: 1 against Mainz) also increased their deficit on Bayern.
At the cup in Kiel, Bayern had conceded the goal to 2-2 in the 94th minute of regular time. This time you were lucky in the finish: Freiburg’s Nils Petersen hit the crossbar from eight meters. But it was enough for Bayern: Lewandowski (7th) scored the 1-0 lead, after Petersen’s equalization (62nd), Müller met Bayern’s victory (74th). Jerome Boateng was relieved: “It was a work victory. Overall we can be satisfied. We only had to tremble because we missed three or four top chances. Then it will be close to the end. But the fighting spirit was right.” Petersen apologized after the game: “I’m sorry for the team that I didn’t score the second goal. Bayern staggered and could have been beaten.”
Missed whistle despite VAR
There was excitement in Stuttgart’s 2-2 win against Mönchengladbach around Austrian Sasa Kalajdzic: Despite a VAR check, referee Felix Brych admitted after the game that he shouldn’t have given a penalty after the Austrian fell in the penalty area. Silas Wamagituka scored in the 96th minute. The reason for Kalajdzic’s falling was not the fact that Ramy Bensebaini was held, but the contact with his own teammate, Waldemar Anton, at the foot. Video referee Bibiana Steinhaus did not point this out to Brych, the referee overlooked it on the monitor.
Luka Jovic celebrated a perfect return to Frankfurt: three days after being loaned from Real Madrid, he scored Eintracht as a joker with two goals in a 3-1 win against Schalke.
DFL is preparing for ghost games until the end of the season
No return of the spectators expected: Christian Seifert, managing director of the German Bundesliga, does not believe that there will be a particularly large number of spectators in the stadiums this season. “At least not to a significant extent,” he said in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. Nobody, neither clubs nor DFL, wants ghost games. “But we still have them because they are currently the only approved way to play and we will probably have them by the end of the season. If we had excluded ghost games from the start, as some people demanded, the system would have collapsed. “
