Werder Bremen 1-2 Union Berlin (1-1)
Four days after the 7-1 debacle at 1. FC Köln, SV Werder Bremen also lost their home game against Union Berlin. At 1: 2 (1: 1), the promoted player practically beat himself. After Amos Pieper (14th) headed the opening goal, the scorer blundered a little later with a much too short back pass for keeper Jiri Pavlenka, who Janik Haberer (18th). ) used to compensate. The supposed goal for 2:1 from the point of view of the Berliners by Sheraldo Becker (42.) after a Pavlenka mistake did not count after the intervention of the video assistant because of a handball in advance. Kevin Behrens gave coach Urs Fischer’s team the lead shortly after the restart from a corner, causing Bremen to lose for the fourth time in a row. With five points ahead of the relegation place, the SVW is in eleventh place. The former league leaders Union is only three points behind FC Bayern as a new runner-up.
Bayer Leverkusen – VfL Bochum 2: 0 (1: 0)
Bayer Leverkusen continued their race to catch up at the end of a long stretch of a weak first leg and clinched their fifth Bundesliga win in a row with a 2-0 (1-0) win over VfL Bochum. The team coached by Xabi Alonso, in which young national player Florian Wirtz was back in the starting line-up for the first time 318 days after his cruciate ligament rupture, defeated Bochum, who were in danger of relegation but were courageous at times on the Rhine, thanks to goals from Edmond Tapsoba (8th minute). ., penalty kick) and Adam Hlozek (53rd) through. Due to the defeat, VfL fell back to the relegation place on equal points with VfB Stuttgart, but after three wins in a row they still have every chance of staying up in the league. Leverkusen jumped to eighth place.
SC Freiburg – Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 1 (0: 1)
In a duel between two pursuers from leaders FC Bayern Munich, SC Freiburg and Eintracht Frankfurt each had to settle for one point. Due to the 1:1 (0:1), the Breisgauer fell back to sixth and the Hessians to fourth place. The opponents are tied with 31 points. France’s World Cup driver Randal Kolo Muani gave the guests a 1-0 lead with their first dangerous scene (42nd) in an encounter marked by many fouls to date. Shortly after the restart, Matthias Ginter equalized for SCF with a header to make it 1-1 (47th). In the final phase, no team was able to develop clear advantages.
FC Augsburg – Borussia Monchengladbach 1:0 (0:0)
FC Augsburg clinched a late win in the home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach and ended the first half of the season in a non-relegation zone. FCA played boldly three days after the narrow 4-3 defeat at Borussia Dortmund and were rewarded with Mergim Berisha’s 1-0 winner (82′). New signing Dion Beljo (36th) had already scored for the Fuggerstadt team after a corner. However, the VAR conceded the goal for an offside position. Borussia around summer substitute Jonas Omlin, who was the best man in the Rhinelanders, acted too harmlessly and after the third bankruptcy in a row is stuck in ninth place in midfield. Augsburg is two points ahead of VfL Bochum on the relegation place, now 14th in the Bundesliga.
