Bundesliga: Bayern Munich dominates Hoffenheim and the league

In Adilettes, double goalscorer Leroy Sané shuffled to the fan corner with his Bayern colleagues. Led by the strong Sané, FC Bayern kept champions Bayer Leverkusen at bay with a playfully easy goal gala. With the 5:0 (3:0) against the discouraged and powerless TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, the autumn champions in the Bundesliga maintained their lead of four points over the double winner from the Rhine. “It’s a lot of fun. I think the fans see that too,” said Sané on Sat.1.

Sané (7th/48th minute), Raphaël Guerreiro (12th), Harry Kane (26th) with the continuation of his impressive series of penalties and Serge Gnabry (66th) had the Munich fans repeatedly chanting championship chants. “We are very satisfied. It was a really good performance with a lot of enthusiasm and nice goals,” said sports director Christoph Freund on Sky in full English weeks for the Munich team. “It was important that we were able to get a clear result. It was fun.”

Thanks to a strong second half, runner-up VfB Stuttgart also won the second game of the new year and moved close to the Champions League places. The Swabians won 2-1 (0-1) against RB Leipzig at the end of the first half of the Bundesliga and are now only one point behind fourth-placed Saxony, who lost two strikers due to sending off in the final phase.

The Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko also scored in the fifth league game in a row and gave RB the lead in the 10th minute. Winter purchase Jacob Bruun Larsen (50th) and Nick Woltemade (60th) turned the game in front of 57,500 spectators with their goals in VfB’s favor. Shortly before the end, Leipzig’s Sesko (85th) and Loïs Openda (88th) each saw yellow-red.

1. FC Union Berlin also lost the second competitive game under coach Steffen Baumgart without scoring their own goal and set a negative club record. The Berliners lost 0-2 (0-2) to FC Augsburg, who had previously been winless away from home, in their home stadium An der Alten Försterei.

The Berliners have been waiting for a threesome for ten Bundesliga games. This has only happened once before for the FCU: in the previous season, which almost ended in relegation. Alexis Claude-Maurice ensured the visitors’ victory in front of 21,560 spectators with his brace (9th/30th minute) in the last game of the first half of the season.

This means that the hopes associated with Baumgart in the east of the capital have suffered a severe setback. Union is just ahead of the relegation region with 17 points. Offensively, the Berliners remain too harmless. Baumgart’s first competitive game in the Union coaching bench was lost on Saturday in Heidenheim (0-2).

Werder Bremen remains winless against 1. FC Heidenheim in the Bundesliga. The Green-Whites couldn’t make it past 3:3 (1:1) in their home stadium because Leo Scienza equalized for the guests with a wonderful free kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time. This meant that Werder had to accept a setback in the fight for international places.

In front of 39,350 spectators in the Weserstadion, the Austrian Marco Grüll looked like the match winner for the North Germans in a turbulent game. The summer newcomer scored twice (1st and 79th minute). Marvin Ducksch was also successful for coach Ole Werner’s team (56th). Jan Schöppner (30th) and Luca Kerber (61st) each scored the interim equalizer for the Heidenheimers who never gave up. In the end, Scienza caused a big celebration in Heidenheim.

With its second win of the season, VfL Bochum created additional excitement in the relegation battle of the Bundesliga. The Westphalia team won 1-0 (0-0) against newly promoted team FC St. Pauli and moved back to within two points of second-to-last Holstein Kiel with nine points. Philipp Hofmann scored the winning goal in the 67th minute.

Bochum can also hope that the DFB sports court’s ruling on the game at Union Berlin will stand and that VfL will receive two additional points. Then FC St. Pauli, who lost Adam Dzwigala in the final phase with a red card for serious foul play (90th + 4), are back within reach with 14 points.