Bundesliga: Borussia Mönchengladbach celebrates late, but too early – Hertha BSC continues winning streak

Home high from Fürth continues

Breel Embolo saved Borussia Mönchengladbach from their second defeat in a row and still gave his team a point in the Bundesliga relegation battle. With his goal in the 82nd minute, the Gladbach striker saved the 2:2 (1:2) against VfL Wolfsburg in a gripping game, who remained undefeated in the second away game in a row and with 28 points in eleventh place in the table is ahead of Mönchengladbach (27). .

In front of 10,000 spectators in Borussia Park, Jonas Wind (6th minute) and Sebastiaan Bornauw (33rd) scored for the guests, Marcus Thuram (42nd) also scored for Borussia. In added time, Gladbach celebrated the supposed winning goal by Matthias Ginter, which video evidence did not count. Shortly before, VfL defender Maxence Lacroix had seen the red card for intentional handball.

Representative Alario meets: Bayer Leverkusen without chic on the Champions League course

Even without top scorer Patrik Schick, Bayer Leverkusen is well on the way to the Champions League. Schick representative Lucas Alario paved the way for the fifth win in the seventh game of the year for the third-placed Bundesliga player, who also won for the first time since kept a clean sheet in mid-November. In the past five years, Bayer had failed to qualify for the “premier class” four times.

Schick, with 20 goals the second best league goalscorer after Bayern star Robert Lewandowski, will be absent for a few weeks due to a torn muscle fiber in his calf, according to the club. For the Argentinian Alario, who is said to want to leave Bayer at the end of the season, it was only the third goal of the season. Moussa Diaby, who added a brace (56th/81st), scored seven times in the last five games alone. The table-14. After just one defeat in eight games, Bielefeld once again suffered a setback.

Hertha also loses in Freiburg on the debut of a fifth goalkeeper

Despite a decent performance, Hertha BSC is still waiting for a sense of achievement in the second half of the Bundesliga. The Berliners, who were badly hit by Corona and injuries, lost 0: 3 (0: 1) to SC Freiburg on Saturday, who underpinned his European Cup ambitions. Hertha, on the other hand, is floating as table 15. and with only one point ahead of the relegation place in danger of relegation.

The penalty kick converted by Vincenzo Grifo (12′) and the late goals from Kevin Schade (83′) and Lucas Höler (86′) increased the concerns of the club from the capital, whose ongoing decline had already begun before the kick-off. It was the seventh game without a win for the Berliners, who had to play with the 20-year-old goalkeeper Marcel Lotka, Hertha’s fifth keeper, due to absences.

Union can also do it without Kruse: 3-1 against Mainz 05

1. FC Union Berlin has shaken off its Max Kruse complex. After three defeats without scoring their own goal, the “Iron” made it 3-1 (1-0) against 1. FSV Mainz 05, their first success since the noisy departure of their prominent attacker. Genki Haraguchi (7th), Sheraldo Becker (56th) and Taiwo Awonyi (75th) scored the goals for the Berliners on Saturday in front of 10,000 spectators. Delano Burgzorg only scored for Mainz in the 90th minute.

Coach Urs Fischer’s team not only overtook Mainz, who had been defeated for the first time in three games, in the Bundesliga table, but also made an impressive comeback in the race for another place in the European Cup. On Tuesday, Union will face FC St. Pauli in the quarter-finals of the cup before they meet Kruse again at VfL Wolfsburg next Saturday. As in the first leg, Dominik Kohr (60th) was sent off for Mainz with a yellow-red card.

Griesbeck saves Fürth home series: 1-1 against 1. FC Köln

1. FC Köln was also unable to end SpVgg Greuther Fürth’s high at home. Despite a temporary lead, the Rhinelanders had to settle for a lively Bundesliga game on Saturday with 1: 1 (0: 0) at the Franks. The Fürth remain bottom of the table with 14 points, but are now unbeaten six times in a row in front of their home crowd. The Cologne team collected their 36th point in their excellent season and can continue to dream of Europe.

With a seemingly harmless cross, Florian Kainz put coach Steffen Baumgart’s team ahead in the 52nd minute. In front of a sold-out crowd of 9,200 spectators under Corona conditions, Sebastian Griesbeck (69th) from Fürth equalized with a header.

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