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Bayer Leverkusen Extend Unbeaten Run To 38 As Bundesliga Title Nears | Football News
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Bayer Leverkusen Extend Unbeaten Run To 38 As Bundesliga Title Nears | Football News

[ad_1] Florian Wirtz scored after 84 seconds as Bayer Leverkusen made it 38 games unbeaten in all competitions with a 3-2 victory in Freiburg on Sunday. Leverkusen's seventh league win on the bounce kept them 10 points clear of serial champions Bayern Munich with eight games to play in their quest for the club's first ever Bundesliga crown. "It was a good performance, a deserved victory. It's not easy to win in Freiburg but we keep going," Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso told DAZN before praising the performance of his playmaker Wirtz."It's not just the goal he scored, he has a super game. He has real quality and I am very happy for his development."Wirtz, one of Leverkusen's key performers this season, got things moving in style. The Germany forward cut in from the left and unleashed a per...
‘Panicky’ Bayern Munich Held In Freiburg To Boost Bayer Leverkusen Title Hopes | Football News
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‘Panicky’ Bayern Munich Held In Freiburg To Boost Bayer Leverkusen Title Hopes | Football News

[ad_1] Bayern Munich were held to a 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday, an 87th-minute equaliser from Lucas Hoeler giving leaders Bayer Leverkusen a chance to go 10 points clear. Mathys Tel's 35th-minute stunner had cancelled out an impressive opener from Freiburg captain Christian Guenter, before Jamal Musiala's spectacular solo effort looked to have snared the three points for Bayern. Hoeler however had other ideas, chipping a volley through a crowded Bayern penalty area and past a helpless Manuel Neuer.Bayern manager Thomas Tuchel criticised his players' "body language and lack of bite" in the first half an hour, telling DAZN "we played completely without structure and had no discipline and weren't in our positions."Calling his side "panicky", Tuchel said: "We did things that we've never ...
Bundesliga: Donyell Malen Double Fires Borussia Dortmund Past Freiburg | Football News
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Bundesliga: Donyell Malen Double Fires Borussia Dortmund Past Freiburg | Football News

[ad_1] Donyell Malen scored a first-half brace as Borussia Dortmund eased to a 3-0 home victory over Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Friday. Striker Niclas Fuellkrug, celebrating his 31st birthday, laid on both goals for the Netherlands winger, before grabbing one of his own in the dying stages. The win sends Dortmund four points clear of fifth-placed RB Leipzig, with the Saxons playing at Augsburg on Saturday. Malen, who was linked with a move away from Dortmund in the winter transfer window, has now scored four goals in his last four games. "From the start we had the right intensity and ...
Brentford Sign Kevin Schade For Club-Record Fee | Football News
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Brentford Sign Kevin Schade For Club-Record Fee | Football News

[ad_1] Kevin Schade made 19 appearances for Thomas Frank's team, who finished ninth.© TwitterBrentford have completed the permanent signing of Germany forward Kevin Schade for a club-record fee reported to be around 20 million pounds ($25 million). Schade joined the Premier League club on loan from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January and has now signed a five-year contract. The 21-year-old made 19 appearances for Thomas Frank's team, who finished ninth in the English top-flight.Brentford director of football Phil Giles told the club's website: "When Kevin joined us on loan in January, we agreed with Freiburg that the move would become permanent this summer if certain conditions were met, which included Brentford remaining a Premier League team for next season."We have all been pleased wi...
Freiburg Bring Bayern ‘Back Down To Earth’ With 2-1 DFB Pokal Win | Football News
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Freiburg Bring Bayern ‘Back Down To Earth’ With 2-1 DFB Pokal Win | Football News

[ad_1] Captain Thomas Mueller said Bayern Munich had "come back down to earth" after a 2-1 home loss against Freiburg on Tuesday saw them knocked out of the German Cup. Bayern beat Dortmund 4-2 on Saturday to return to the top of the Bundesliga as Thomas Tuchel made his bow as coach after replacing the sacked Julian Nagelsmann, keeping the Bavarians on course for a treble. But an injury-time penalty for a handball by Jamal Musiala, converted by Freiburg's Lucas Hoeler, saw the visitors grab their first ever victory at Bayern.Bayern, 20-time German Cup winners, have now been eliminated before the semis for three straight years since their treble-winning season in 2019-20."(We're) sitting here now with broken shards of something, for this year it's over again in the German Cup," said a "di...
Manuel Neuer Ruled Out Of Bayern Munich’s Top-Of-The-Table Clash With Freiburg | Football News
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Manuel Neuer Ruled Out Of Bayern Munich’s Top-Of-The-Table Clash With Freiburg | Football News

[ad_1] Manuel Neuer will miss his side's top-of-the-table clash with Bundesliga high-fliers Freiburg© AFPBayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will miss his side's top-of-the-table clash with Bundesliga high-fliers Freiburg on Sunday due to ongoing problems with his shoulder, coach Julian Nagelsmann confirmed. "Manuel won't play, he is still in pain. I hope he can be back next week, but Freiburg will be too early for him," said Nagelsmann, whose team will now be without their captain for a second game in a row. "It's annoying, but that's how it is," he added.Neuer missed Bayern's 4-2 Champions League win over Viktoria Plzen in midweek with a bruised shoulder, but had played every single minute of the league season so far.Nagelsmann confirmed that he would once again be replaced by reserv...
Bayern Munich And RB Leipzig Stumble As Freiburg Go Top Of Bundesliga | Football News
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Bayern Munich And RB Leipzig Stumble As Freiburg Go Top Of Bundesliga | Football News

[ad_1] Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said Saturday his team lacked their usual energy after they were held to a draw for the second week in a row at Union Berlin and knocked off top spot in the Bundesliga. Union battled to a well-earned 1-1 draw at home to Bayern, allowing fellow high-fliers Freiburg to leapfrog their way into first after they beat Bayer Leverkusen in a five-goal thriller. "In the end it was a fair result. The energy which I've praised so often in the last few weeks wasn't really there today," said Nagelsmann, adding that his side would need to perk up in their Champions League opener against Inter next Wednesday."Union showed today what makes them so strong. In the end, it was a top of the table clash in which both sides deserved to draw," added Bayern striker T...