“We lost, I’m rarely happy about that. Otherwise I was satisfied,” said Freiburg coach Christian Streich after his team’s first defeat of the season. “The team gave everything, they played bravely. It’s a shame we didn’t score three or four minutes earlier.” In fact, after the sports club’s subsequent goal in stoppage time, things got turbulent again for a short time, but ultimately it remained with the unadorned 2-1 success of Munich against an opponent who was unpleasant from the start.
Even with the lead after half an hour behind him, the game didn’t get any easier for the championship leaders. Initially, however, the guests did not want to score their own goals. Instead, Bayer striker Robert Lewandowski used one of his opportunities and made it 2-0 with a quarter of an hour to go. Janik Haberer’s goal was too late to turn the game around.
Leipzig punishes weak Dortmunders
“I’ve never seen Dortmund make so many mistakes in the build-up game,” said RB Leipzig’s winning goal scorer Yussuf Poulsen after his team’s deserved 2-1 (1-0) win against BVB on the Sky microphone. “We played a very good game, defended well and can actually win 3-1,” said the Dane. An apt analysis after a game in which Leipzig was clearly better than the weakened Dortmund team, who could not keep up, especially in the first half. RB whirled, left the Dortmunders no space in the build-up and consistently looked for the way forward when winning the ball. Christopher Nkunku as the outstanding player (29th minute) and Yussuf Poulsen (68th). scored the goals for the hosts. Shortly after the break, Dortmund surprisingly came to an equalizer (52nd) through captain Marco Reus, but it wasn’t enough for more. BVB conceded their third defeat in their fifth away game. The gap to FC Bayern is now four points again.
Leverkusen and Cologne save point, Wolfsburg still victorious
After the game between Hertha BSC and Bayer Leverkusen, none of the participants looked really satisfied. Leverkusen had shown a weak game and were able to prevent the first away defeat of the season by the 1: 1 equalization in the 90th minute. The fans saw a weak Bundesliga game in rainy and cold weather.
Bayer could not play their technical skills, the Herthaners had to be accused of not having exploited the weaknesses of the Werkself more consistently. “We have to make it 2-0, then we’ll go home as winners,” said Berlin coach Pal Dardai. “We had enough switching moments.”
1. FC Köln are also happy about a late equalizer: Against Union Berlin, double goalscorer Anthony Modeste headed the ball into the Berlin goal after a corner kick, making it 2-2. After his hit, he ran to the bank and grabbed the flat cap of his trainer Steffen Baumgart, which he put on and performed a dance. Berlin would have climbed to fourth place in the Champions League with a win. So the Unioners stay eighth in the table. Cologne is still unbeaten at home.
Dancing with a hat: Anthony Modeste with the double goal scorer celebrates the equalization against Union Berlin
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VfL Wolfsburg saved a narrow 1-0 win against FC Augsburg over time with a lot of noise. After a good first half hour, the “wolves” switched to a kind of management mode and left the game to the FCA. With a bit of luck it was a narrow victory in the end, the third in the third competitive game under the new coach Florian Kohfeldt.
First win of the season for Bielefeld
They had to wait eleven match days, but now it finally worked: Arminia Bielefeld won 1-0 at VfB Stuttgart and was happy about her first win of the season. “The relief is great, very great,” said Bielefeld’s captain Fabian Klos on Sky. The long wait for the first success “put a bit of a strain on the coaching team, the team and the entire club”, he admitted: “Everyone knows how difficult it is to keep the class again. But we give everything for it.”
There were strange scenes at the 2-0 for promoted VfL Bochum against TSG Hoffenheim: At first, Hoffenheim’s Florian Grilitsch was so angry that his opponent fell slightly that he pushed him unnecessarily and there was still a penalty. Bochum’s goalkeeper Manuel Riemann took the penalty and chased the ball over the crossbar. With the final whistle, Milos Pantovic then hit from his own half of the field with a shot into the empty TSG goal. Hoffenheim’s goalkeeper Oliver Baumann went into the attack at a corner and had no chance of coming back in time.
The other promoted team, Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth, had no luck again: The 1: 2 against Eintracht Frankfurt was the tenth defeat in the eleventh game. The Greuther stay behind with a counter last. Particularly tragic: Fürth equalized in the 92nd minute of the game and hoped to win the second point of the season, but only received a goal a moment after the restart.
Hütter satisfied with the point
At the beginning, FSV Mainz 05 and Borussia Mönchengladbach drew 1: 1 on Friday evening. “I can live with the point very well,” said Gladbach’s trainer Adi Hütter afterwards, considering the Mainz team’s chances of being overweight after the break. “It was absolutely okay in the first half, but Mainz enjoyed a lot more from the game and showed that they can play football with a lot of passion, power and emotion.”
The 11th Bundesliga matchday in numbers:
FC Bayern Munich – SC Freiburg 2: 1 (1: 0)
Tore: 1: 0 Goretzka (30th), 2: 0 Lewandowski (75th), 2: 1 Haberer (90th + 3)
RB Leipzig – Borussia Dortmund 2: 1 (1: 0)
Tore: 1: 0 Nkunku (29th), 1: 1 Reus (52nd), 2: 1 Poulsen (68th)
VfL Wolfsburg – FC Augsburg 1-0 (1-0)
Tore: 1: 0 Completion (14.)
VfB Stuttgart – Arminia Bielefeld 1: 0 (1: 0)
Tore: 1: 0 Okugawa (19.)
VfL Bochum – TSG Hoffenheim 2: 0 (0: 0)
Tore: 1: 0 Novothny (68.), 2: 0 Pantovic (90. + 7)
FSV Mainz 05 – Borussia Mönchengladbach 1: 1 (0: 1)
Tore: 0: 1 Neuhaus (38th), 1: 1 Widmer (76th)
Hertha BSC – Bayer Leverkusen 1: 1 (1: 0)
Tore: 1:0 Jovetic (42.), 1:1 Andrich (90.)
1. FC Cologne – Union Berlin 2: 2 (1: 2)
Tore: 1: 0 Modest (7.), 1: 1 Ryerson (9.), 1: 2 Prömel (45. + 1), 2: 2 Modest (86.)
SpVgg Greuther Fürth – Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 2 (0: 0)
Tore: 0:1 Red (76.), 1:1 Itten (90.+2), 1:2 Borré (90.+4)
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