A month has used Bayern Munich since the winter break, to Leader Borussia Dortmund. With a Handicap of six points of the Champions was started in the second half of the season. Now he is on a par with the rivals, who last played three Times in a row only a draw, and now even more under pressure. On Sunday, Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen is challenged, three weeks ago, Bayern had been able to defeat.

This defeat from the beginning of February in Leverkusen, Germany, had indicated that the Bavarians are playful in spite of successful race to catch up, still in excellent condition. This was confirmed in the last games. However, unlike in the autumn, the Bayern victories in close Games. A week ago, so when 3:2 was a success in Augsburg (1:2 behind), on Saturday, it was also in the home match against Hertha Berlin. A gate of the Spaniard Javi Martinez after a little more than one hour, scored with the head after a Corner, was enough to lackluster duty victory.

A fly in the ointment however, for Bayern, The 22-year-old Kingsley Coman suffered just nine minutes after coming off the bench with a muscle fibre tear in the rear left thigh and is expected to miss the next two games at Borussia Monchengladbach and at home to Wolfsburg. A timely return to the eighth finals of the Champions League on 13. March against Liverpool is open.

duplicate of Admir Mehmedi

From a Swiss point of view, stabbed in the 23. Round the Doublette from Admir Mehmedi for Wolfsburg and against his national team-mates Yann Sommer in goal for Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Winterthur scored in his 26-minute use of the last two matches, 3:0 away win. Mehmedi was in the Bundesliga for the first time since the 2. December 2018 successfully. He currently stands at five goals and is the best Swiss scorer in this season in the Bundesliga, ahead of his teammate Renato Steffen (3).

thanks to the second 3:0 in a row Wolfsburg catapulted suddenly in the battle for Champions League places. The 4. Rank (Leipzig) is just three points, and the gap to third-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach is only five meters.

balance at Schalke

Of such spheres do not dream anymore at Schalke for a long time. On the contrary: In Gelsenkirchen, the restlessness of the game is to game more. After a good performance in the Champions League against Manchester City (2:3) showed Schalke against Mainz, an opponent who had lost the last three games, and eleven goals conceded, a weak performance was a 0:3 chance.

The staff, with discussions on Schalke always sharper and have now claimed a first victim. Manager Christian Heidel has announced his resignation “at the latest at the end of the season”. An earlier departure seems likely, with the former Bremen and Wolfsburg Manager Klaus Allofs and Jonas Boldt (Bayer Leverkusen) were traded in the German media is already possible successor. And if the team is not very soon in the track, not even the experience of coach Domenico Tedesco, who led Schalke in the last year on court 2, the end of the season for S04.

Bundesliga. Friday: Werder Bremen – VfB Stuttgart 1:1. – Saturday: Bayern Munich – Hertha Berlin 1:0. Borussia Mönchengladbach – Wolfsburg 0:3. SC Freiburg – Augsburg 5:1. Mainz 05 – Schalke 04 3:0. Fortuna Düsseldorf – 1. FC Nürnberg 2:1. – Sunday: Hannover 96 – Eintracht Frankfurt At 15.30. Borussia Dortmund – Bayer Leverkusen 18.00. – Monday: RB Leipzig – Hoffenheim 20.30.

ranking: 1. Borussia Dortmund 22/51 (54:23). 2. Bayern Munich 23/51 (51:26). 3. Borussia Mönchengladbach 23/43 (42:25). 4. RB Leipzig 22/41 (41:19). 5. Wolfsburg 23/38 (38:30). 6. Bayer Leverkusen 22/36 (39:32). 7. Eintracht Frankfurt 22/34 (41:28). 8. Hoffenheim 22/33 (44:32). 9. Werder Bremen 23/32 (38:34). 10. Hertha Berlin 23/32 (35:33). 11. Mainz 05 23/30 (26:36). 12. Fortuna Düsseldorf 23/28 (27:42). 13. SC Freiburg 23/27 (34:38). 14. Schalke 04 23/23 (25:35). 15. Augsburg 23/18 (32:45). 16. VfB Stuttgart 23/16 (19:51). 17. Hannover 96 22/14 (20:47). 18. 1. FC Nürnberg 23/13 (18:48).

Freiburg – Augsburg 5:1 (3:0). – 23’600 spectators. – Goals: 9. Petersen 1:0. 30. Grifo 2:0. 43. Petersen 3:0. 52. Khedira 3:1. 64. Forest Schmidt 4:1. 85. Low-Lechner 5:1. – Remarks: Augsburg Kobel. 91. A red card against Oxford (Augsburg).

Mainz – Schalke 3:0 (1:0). 26’005 spectators. – Goals: 19. Onisiwo 1:0. 73. Mateta 2:0. 84. Onisiwo 3:0. – Note: Schalke without Embolo (injured).

Borussia Mönchengladbach – Wolfsburg 0:3 (0:1). – 48’041 viewers. – Goals: 38. Gerhardt 0:1. 68. Mehmedi 0:2. 83. Mehmedi 0:3. – Remarks: Mönchengladbach with summer, Elvedi, Zakaria (up to 46.) and Drmic (82.), without Long (replacement). Wolfsburg Steffen (up to 78.) and Mehmedi (64.).

Bayern Munich – Hertha Berlin 1:0 (0:0). 75’000 spectators. – Goal: 62. Martinez 1:0. Remarks: Hertha Berlin with Lustenberger. 84. Red card against Rekik (Hertha Berlin).

Fortuna Dusseldorf – Nuremberg 2:1 (0:1). – 41’816 spectators. – Goals: 41. Lion 0:1. 63. Everton (Own Goal) 1:1. 83. Ayhan is 2:1. – Remark: 4. Red card for Pereira (Nuremberg, Germany). (sda)

Created: 23.02.2019, 18:25 PM