Club world champion Bayern Munich suffered a serious setback at the surprise team Eintracht Frankfurt during the dress rehearsal for the Champions League and thus possibly made the championship exciting again. The team of coach Hansi Flick, which was badly troubled in terms of personnel, lost 1: 2 (0: 2) on matchday 22 against the strong Hessen with the outstanding Amin Younes after an uninspired appearance. Pursuit RB Leipzig could move up to two points on Bayern with a win at Hertha BSC on Sunday.
Borussia Dortmund celebrated a 4-0 victory in the 180th Revier derby at Schalke 04 and increased the relegation worries at the bottom of the table from Gelsenkirchen. Jaden Sancho, twice Erling Haaland and Raphael Guerrero scored for BVB, which is six points behind a Champions League place.
Borussia Mönchengladbach suffered a severe setback in the fight for the European Cup places after the swirl around coach Marco Rose. The five-time German champions were defeated by relegation-threatened FSV Mainz 05 1: 2 (1: 1) and are thus taking a mortgage into the groundbreaking games in the league, the Champions League and the DFB Cup in the next few weeks.
The interim equalization of Lars Stindl (26th) did not prevent the first defeat against Mainz in over five years. Karim Onisiwo (10th) and Kevin Stöger (86th) scored for the guests, who reduced the gap to the relegation rank to one point.
After five games without a win, Union Berlin was able to celebrate again. The Eiserne prevailed 1-0 (0-0) at SC Freiburg and overtook the Breisgauer in the table. Grischa Prömel (64th) scored for the capital city (33 points), who had lost all previous point games in Freiburg. For the sports club (31 points) it was the first home defeat after seven games without bankruptcy.
VfB Stuttgart, which is experiencing extremely turbulent days behind the scenes, celebrated the long-awaited sense of achievement on the pitch. The Swabians won 1-0 (0-0) at 1. FC Köln and only had their second win in the last seven league games. Sasa Kalajdzic (49th) decided the overall weak encounter for VfB, which was last held in suspense by the power struggle on its management floor.
The two Vice Presidents Rainer Mutschler and Bernd Gaiser recently resigned and spoke out against the controversial President Claus Vogt.
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