Superb Sane strike fires Bayern again to Bundesliga summit

Sane's intention sealed a 1-0 victory over strugglers Arminia Bielefeld, who saved Bayern at bay for the outlet 70 minutes at the Allianz Arena. It was every other surprisingly hard domestic time out for Julian Nagelsmann's men after remaining week's shock home loss to Augsburg. But Sane netted for the 9th time this season as Bayern, chasing a tenth immediately Bundesliga name, restored their one-point benefit over Dortmund.

Bielefeld stay second-bottom in the desk, four factors from protection. Dortmund had earlier long past top with a three-1 win at Wolfsburg when Erling Haaland scored on his return from injury. The go back of Haaland is a massive enhance for Dortmund, who host Bayern next weekend in a top-of-the-table conflict.

Haaland netted his fiftieth Bundesliga purpose in as many video games, just eight minutes after coming off the bench in the 2nd half of following a five-week absence with a leg harm. He tapped home a Julian Brandt pass, adding to an Emre Can penalty and Donyell Malen purpose for Dortmund after Wout Weghorst had given Wolfsburg an early lead.

"We ignored him (Haaland) in the last few weeks. He's a weapon," Brandt told Sky. The win got here three days after a three-1 defeat at Sporting Lisbon ended Dortmund's hopes of achieving the Champions League last sixteen. "We needed to show a response after the sport on Wednesday," said Can, who turned into sent off in Lisbon.

Third-located Freiburg are actually 8 points adrift of second-placed Dortmund after their 2-1 defeat at Bochum surpassed the visitors a third straight league loss. Serbian striker Milos Pantovic scored the winner 8 mins from time to wreck Christian Streich's 300th Bundesliga recreation as Freiburg coach. "It would have been a cool day if we had received," admitted Streich.

Bayer Leverkusen can leapfrog Freiburg into 1/3 in the event that they win at Covid-hit RB Leipzig on Sunday. Leipzig have Willi Orban, Yussuf Poulsen, Hugo Novoa and Mohamed Simakan all in quarantine after trying out high quality. However goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi ought to return if a PCR check is poor on Sunday.