The Top Three all won their first matches after the Bundesliga’s Winterpause, as leaders Borussia Dortmund and third place side Borussia Monchengladbach joined Friday winners Bayern Munich in the win column.
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Bayer Leverkusen 0-1 Borussia Monchengladbach
Alassane Plea’s 10th goal of the season kept ‘Gladbach three points back of Bayern and nine behind BVB. The visitors had almost a month to stew on a 2-1 loss to the leaders, but were fairly fortunate to get three points considering Bayer out-attempted the Foals by a 21-7 margin and put nine shots on Yann Sommer.
Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 Freiburg
Eintracht’s pair of Top Ten scorers struck again, with Luka Jovic adding his league-best 13th goal and Sebastien Haller notching hsi 10th goal of the season. Borussia Dortmund is the only other club with two double-digit league scorers (Paco Alcacer and Marco Reus). The other goal came from Ante Rebic, who has six in 874 minutes.
RB Leipzig 0-1 Borussia Dortmund
Axel Witsel’s well-hit 19th minute goal off a corner kick was all BVB needed to restore its six-point table advantage on Bayern Munich. Christian Pulisic played the final quarter-hour for BVB, while fellow American youngster Tyler Adams of RBL was an unused sub during his first Bundesliga matchday.
Elsewhere
Hoffenheim 1-3 Bayern Munich — Friday
Stuttgart 2-3 Mainz
Augsburg 1-2 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Hannover 0-1 Werder Bremen — USMNT’s Sargent plays 10 mins
Nurnberg v. Hertha Berlin — 9:30 a.m. ET Sunday
Schalke v. Wolfsburg — Noon ET Sunday
STANDINGS
Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Home | Away | PTS |
Borussia Dortmund | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 45 | 18 | 27 | 8-1-0 | 6-2-1 | 45 |
Bayern Munich | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 19 | 20 | 4-3-1 | 8-0-2 | 39 |
Mönchengladbach | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 18 | 19 | 8-0-0 | 3-3-4 | 36 |
RB Leipzig | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 7-2-1 | 2-2-4 | 31 |
Eintracht Frankfurt | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 37 | 24 | 13 | 5-1-3 | 4-2-3 | 30 |
VfL Wolfsburg | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 5 | 3-3-3 | 5-1-2 | 28 |
1899 Hoffenheim | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 33 | 26 | 7 | 3-4-3 | 3-3-2 | 25 |
Werder Bremen | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 3-3-3 | 4-1-4 | 25 |
Hertha BSC Berlin | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 27 | -1 | 4-3-1 | 2-3-4 | 24 |
Bayer Leverkusen | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 30 | -4 | 4-1-4 | 3-2-4 | 24 |
FSV Mainz 05 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 24 | -4 | 3-4-2 | 3-2-4 | 24 |
SC Freiburg | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 28 | -6 | 3-4-2 | 2-2-5 | 21 |
Fortuna Düsseldorf | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 34 | -13 | 4-0-5 | 2-3-4 | 21 |
FC Schalke 04 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 24 | -4 | 3-0-5 | 2-3-4 | 18 |
FC Augsburg | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 31 | -5 | 1-4-4 | 2-2-5 | 15 |
VfB Stuttgart | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 38 | -24 | 3-1-5 | 1-1-7 | 14 |
Hannover 96 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 36 | -19 | 2-1-6 | 0-4-5 | 11 |
1. FC Nürnberg | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 38 | -24 | 2-3-4 | 0-2-6 | 11 |