Bayern Munich have been held to a 1-1 draw at Union Berlin on Saturday, giving defending champions Bayer Leverkusen an outdoor probability of dragging themselves again into the Bundesliga title race.
Bayern, who additionally dropped factors in a shock loss at residence to Bochum final week, may very well be simply six factors forward if Leverkusen win at Stuttgart on Sunday.
Bayern had a lot of the ball however struggled to interrupt by way of a resolute Union defence.
With few probabilities within the opening interval, Bayern’s finest probability got here after 51 minutes when Harry Kane drilled a free-kick by way of the wall however into the palms of Frederik Ronnow.
Leroy Sane put the guests forward after 75 minutes when he skated by way of a crowded penalty space to faucet in a Josip Stanisic cross.
Union have been nevertheless the higher staff after the objective and the hosts levelled by way of Benedict Hollerbach, who was on the spot to benefit from an error from rookie goalkeeper Jonas Urbig.
Union rose in depth within the dying phases however have been unable to land the killer blow which might have seen them beat Bayern for the primary time of their historical past, on their twelfth try.
Regardless of hovering dangerously near the relegation spots for a lot of the season, Union have a powerful report at residence towards the league’s finest sides.
Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Eintracht Frankfurt, Mainz, Freiburg and now Bayern have all left Berlin with out successful.
Unlikely Champions League candidates Mainz and Freiburg drew 2-2 draw. Hosts Mainz, diminished to 10 males when Dominik Kohr noticed pink after 43 minutes, twice took the lead however Freiburg equalised each instances.
The end result leaves Mainz third and Freiburg fifth, with neither facet having ever performed within the Champions League.
An Alassane Plea hat-trick took Borussia Moenchengladbach to a 4-2 win at Werder Bremen, conserving the guests on monitor for a return to European soccer.
Plea’s first-half brace had Gladbach on monitor however Bremen scored twice in seven minutes by way of Romano Schmid and Andre Silva, his first for the membership, to stage issues up at half-time.
Plea scored simply two minutes into the second half and Germany striker Tim Kleindienst added one other to seal the victory.
Augsburg’s spectacular 2025 continued with a 1-0 residence win over Wolfsburg, with Phillip Tietz scoring the one objective.
Augsburg at the moment are unbeaten in 10 within the league and have conceded simply three objectives this calendar yr, the bottom mark within the prime 5 European leagues.
In Saturday’s late sport, RB Leipzig host Dortmund in a must-win sport for both facet’s hopes of reaching subsequent season’s Champions League.
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