RB Leipzig misplaced extra floor on Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich with a 4-3 defeat at lowly Hoffenheim on Saturday and have been overtaken into second by Eintracht Frankfurt. Equal on factors with Bayern simply three matchdays in the past, Leipzig have since misplaced two and drawn one to take a seat eight factors behind the league leaders. Hoffenheim got here from a purpose right down to equalise thrice and took the lead with 4 minutes remaining in a wild debut for brand new supervisor Christian Ilzer. Hoffenheim’s Adam Hlozek collected a brace whereas Tom Bischof scored a intelligent free-kick and Jacob Bruun Larsen was chargeable for the winner within the 86th minute.
Leipzig’s efforts got here by means of Willi Orban, Antonio Nusa and an personal purpose from Hoffenheim’s Stanley N’Soki.
The staff from jap Germany had solely conceded 5 targets within the league season earlier than Saturday’s defeat.
“We’re extremely upset. We went forward thrice and misplaced in the long run, that basically hurts,” Leipzig’s Christoph Baumgartner informed Sky.
Mario Goetze, the hero of Germany’s 2014 World Cup win, scored in his a hundredth Frankfurt recreation as his facet beat Werder Bremen 1-0 to proceed their spectacular league kind and transfer two factors forward of Leipzig in second.
Goetze’s Forty fifth-minute purpose, blasted in from close to the penalty spot, was arrange by a fragile cross from French striker Hugo Ekitike, his sixth help of the league marketing campaign.
A “completely satisfied and proud” Frankfurt captain Kevin Trapp mentioned “Leipzig’s loss gave us some good momentum”.
As chants of “German champions, it could solely be Frankfurt” rung out, Trapp tried to downplay expectations.
“First spot is much away however we’ll take the euphoria and self-confidence with us — it could solely do us good.”
‘Particular place’
Borussia Dortmund beat Freiburg 4-0 at residence due to targets from Maximilian Beier, Felix Nmecha, Julian Brandt and Jamie Gittens, whereas the guests completed with 9 males.
Underneath hearth and sitting outdoors the European spots coming into the match, Dortmund’s one saving grace this league marketing campaign has been their residence kind, with 5 wins from 5.
“It is a particular place right here, with the followers behind you,” Brandt informed Sky, with an eye fixed on subsequent week’s residence conflict with Bayern.
“That’ll be a sensational recreation.”
The hosts obtained on monitor early, when Beier, who scored a double for Germany’s Underneath-21s towards France this week, opened the scoring seven minutes in.
Midfielder Nmecha, who netted for Germany’s senior facet of their 1-1 attract Hungary midweek, added a second with an outstanding long-range effort.
Freiburg’s hopes of a comeback have been snuffed out after 63 minutes when Patrick Osterhage picked up a second yellow card for a tough tussle with Marcel Sabitzer.
From the following free-kick, Dortmund’s Brandt curled the ball residence and England winger Gittens bent in a fourth to seal the win.
Freiburg’s Junior Adamu obtained a straight purple for putting Dortmund’s Waldemar Anton in stoppage time, decreasing his facet to 9 males.
Dortmund have now gained their previous six towards Freiburg, scoring 24 and conceding 5.
Defending champions Bayer Leverkusen got here from two targets right down to win 5-2 at residence towards Heidenheim due to a hat-trick from Patrik Schick.
Heidenheim, who host Chelsea within the Convention League on Thursday, have been two targets up inside 21 minutes, with Niklas Dorsch and Mathias Honsak making the most of some sleepy defending.
Argentine World Cup winner Exequiel Palacios pulled one again on the half-hour mark earlier than Schick scored three unanswered targets to wrestle again management of the match, earlier than Granit Xhaka added a fifth.
Xhaka informed Sky: “Patrik is a striker who has wanted to be affected person, however if you want him, he is there.
“He would not want that many possibilities.”
Final season’s runners-up Stuttgart scored two second-half targets by means of Chris Fuehrich and Justin Diehl to win 2-0 at residence over backside membership Bochum, who’ve simply two factors from 11 video games this season.
Elsewhere, Ridle Baku scored the one purpose as Wolfsburg defeated Union Berlin 1-0 at residence.
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