Berlin (AFP) – Werder Bremen stopped Leipzig’s winning streak when they forced them to a 1-1 draw on Tuesday in the opening of the sixteenth round of the German Football League.
Published on: 19/12/2023 – 20:49
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Leipzig was the first to score through Belgian Luis Obinda (47), and the hosts equalized through Justin Engenmah (75).
Bremen prevented its guest from achieving a fourth successive victory and clinging to at least third place, tightening the noose on second-placed Bayern Munich, which plays ninth-placed Wolfsburg on Wednesday.
Leipzig settled for one point, raising its score to 33 points, two points behind Bayern Munich, and is now threatened with giving up the third place it snatched in the last stage from Stuttgart, which hosts Augsburg on Wednesday.
Leipzig took advantage of Stuttgart’s 3-0 loss to Bayern Munich on Sunday, stripping them of third place by one point.
On the other hand, Bremen got its sixteenth point in the thirteenth place temporarily, six points ahead of Cologne, which is in sixteenth place, which forces its owner to play a playoff with the third second division in order to remain in the first division, and with a goal difference in front of Bochum, who is visiting Bayer Leverkusen. Leader Wednesday.
The match witnessed Leipzig bid farewell to its Swedish striker, Emil Forsberg, who moved to the American New York Red Bulls.
Forsberg (32 years old) is considered the best goal maker in Leipzig’s history in the “Bundesliga” (41).
The Swede moved to the German club in 2015 and played 325 matches in all competitions, winning the German Cup twice (2021-2022 and 2022-2023), and the Super Cup (2023).
Leipzig controlled most of the first half, and the referee canceled a goal by Danish striker Youssef Poulsen due to offside (41).
Obinda needed only two minutes of the second half and scored the first goal for the visitors, taking advantage of a cross from Forsberg (47).
Ingenmah equalized the score after a pass from Danish Jens Staeg (75).
Later, Borussia Dortmund, fifth (26 points), will meet its guest, Mainz, who is in the penultimate place (9), and Hoffenheim, seventh, with Darmstadt, last.
Tomorrow, Union Berlin will also play against Cologne, Heidenheim against Freiburg, Eintracht Frankfurt against Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Wolfsburg against Bayern Munich.
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2023-12-19 19:49:08
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