Haaland rankings on comeback as Dortmund go pinnacle in Germany

Haaland netted his 50th Bundesliga purpose in as many video games, just eight minutes after coming off the bench in the 2nd half of following a 5-week absence with a leg harm. He fired in a Julian Brandt go, including to an Emre Can penalty and Donyell Malen goal for Dortmund after Wout Weghorst had given Wolfsburg an early lead. "We overlooked him (Haaland) within the previous few weeks. He's a weapon," Brandt advised Sky. Bayern can later regain pinnacle spot after they host strugglers Arminia Bielefeld.

The go back of Haaland is a big increase for Dortmund, who host Bayern subsequent weekend in a pinnacle-of-the-desk clash. The win got here three days after a 3-1 defeat at Sporting Lisbon ended Dortmund's hopes of attaining the Champions League final 16. "We wanted to show a response after the sport on Wednesday," stated Can, who changed into sent off in Lisbon.

Third-positioned Freiburg nevertheless path Bayern by six points after their 2-1 defeat at Bochum surpassed the site visitors a third straight league loss. Serbian striker Milos Pantovic scored the winner eight minutes from time to spoil Christian Streich's three hundredth Bundesliga game as Freiburg instruct. "It might were a cool day if we had won," admitted Streich.

Bayer Leverkusen can leapfrog Freiburg into 1/3 if they win at Covid-hit RB Leipzig on Sunday. Leipzig have Willi Orban, Yussuf Poulsen, Hugo Novoa and Mohamed Simakan all in quarantine after checking out positive. However goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi could return if a PCR check is terrible on Sunday.

There become a 9-purpose thriller at bottom side Greuther Fuerth as Togo striker Ihlas Bebou bagged a hat-trick in Hoffenheim's 6-3 victory. The end result movements Hoffenheim as much as fifth, at the same time as Fuerth claimed an undesirable Bundesliga record with an eleventh directly defeat.

Augsburg subsidized up a surprise win over Bayern final day out with a ultimate-gasp equaliser to seal a 1-1 draw at Hertha Berlin. Michael Gregoritsch levelled for Augsburg seven mins into stoppage time. With the Hertha bench fuming, assistant educate Andreas Neuendorf turned into shown a purple card. The factor become scant consolation for Hertha after ultimate weekend's 2-0 defeat via Union Berlin in the derby.

Cologne hammered Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-1 inside the Rhineland derby as Dejan Ljubicic, Mark Uth, Ondrej Duda and Sebastian Andersson scored for the hosts. Denis Zakaria and Alassane Plea hit the woodwork for Gladbach before Jonas Hofmann equalised halfway through the second one half of to cancel out Ljubicic's aim. Cologne pulled away with two goals in 90 seconds as Uth capitalised on a Florian Neuhaus mistake before Duda also hit the internet. Andersson scored their fourth in stoppage time.