National team striker Patrik Schick helped Leverkusen with his first goal in the new year of the German league to win 4-0 over Mönchengladbach. The 25-year-old Czech footballer increased to 2: 0 in the eighth minute. Dortmund lost in the second round of Freiburg 1: 2 and after Tuesday’s defeat in the Super Cup with Bayern Munich lost the second match in a row.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland came out empty this time after a two-goal performance in the first league match against Frankfurt.
Leverkusen entered the duel with Mönchengladbach very well. Bayer took the lead in the 3rd minute, when Mitchel Bakker’s shot was knocked down by the goalkeeper Yann Sommer. Five minutes later, Moussa Diaby pulled the ball to the right, found Schick at the edge of the lime, and the Czech shooter scored his 20th Bundesliga goal in his career with his left foot. At the end of the half, Lars Stindl could return Borussia to the match, but his penalty kick was eliminated by Lukas Hradecky.
In the second half, Leverkusen added two more goals. Diaby and Nadia Amiri pushed through and secured Bayer’s first league victory of the year
Freiburg and Dortmund opened the scoring 6 minutes into the match, making the score 0 – 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. Jude Bellingham was able to draw a foul with his counterattack, but the shot from the top of the net made it 0 – 1. It was 0 – 1 at the break. The English young man also had another great chance to equalize, but his header after the corner kick ended only on the pole.
Roib Sallai gained a two-goal lead in Freiburg in the 53rd minute. Marc Rose’s charges got the chance to score a point in the 59th minute, when he hit Yannik Keitel’s own goal after Felix Passlack’s center. They missed more guests and suffered their first loss in the starting league season.
Augsburg scored the first point on the Frankfurt field. The goal was not scored in the duel of the teams that did not manage to enter the season. Jan Morávek started in the basic line-up of Augsburg, but in the 48th minute he alternated due to an injury.
Former captain of the Czech national team, Vladimír Darida, did not intervene in the second match of the season either. The Czech midfielder watched Hertha Berlin’s home loss only from the bench. The victory for Wolfsburg 2: 1 was decided by Felix Nmecha in the 88th minute.
Fürth’s footballers gained the first point after advancing to the Bundesliga, drawing 1: 1 with the weakened Bielefeld. The second newcomer from Bochum also scored, beating Mainz 2: 1 and has his first win.
German Football League – Round 2:
Bochum – Mainz 2: 0 (21. Holtmann, 56. Polter), Eintracht Frankfurt – Augsburg 0: 0, Freiburg – Dortmund 2: 1 (6. Grifo, 53. Sallai – 59. own Keitel), Fürth – Bielefeld 1: 1 (50. Hrgota z pen. – 45. Klos), Hertha Berlin – Wolfsburg 1: 2 (60. Lukebakio z pen. – 74. Baku, 88. F. Nmecha), Leverkusen – Mönchengladbach 4: 0 (3rd own Summer, 8. Schick, 55. Diaby, 87. Amiri).
Table:
| 1. | Wolfsburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3:1 | 6 |
| 2. | Leverkusen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5:1 | 4 |
| 3. | Freiburg | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2:1 | 4 |
| 4. | Hoffenheim | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4:0 | 3 |
| 5. | Leipzig | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4:1 | 3 |
| 6. | Dortmund | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6:4 | 3 |
| 7. | Cologne | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3:1 | 3 |
| 8. | Bochum | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2:1 | 3 |
| 9. | Stuttgart | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5:5 | 3 |
| 10. | Mainz | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1:2 | 3 |
| 11. | Bielefeld | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1:1 | 2 |
| 12. | Bayern Mnichov | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1:1 | 1 |
| Union Berlin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1:1 | 1 | |
| 14. | Eintracht Frankfurt | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2:5 | 1 |
| 15. | Fürth | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2:6 | 1 |
| 16. | Mönchengladbach | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1:5 | 1 |
| 17. | Augsburg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0:4 | 1 |
| 18. | Hertha Berlin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2:5 | 0 |
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