BERLIN — A long-range
Leroy Sane strike fired
Bayern Munich back to the top of the Bundesliga table
on Saturday after the defending champions were briefly overtaken by Borussia
Dortmund.
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Sane's goal sealed a 1-0 victory over
strugglers
Arminia Bielefeld, who kept Bayern at bay for the opening 70 minutes
at the Allianz Arena.
It was another surprisingly difficult
domestic outing for
Julian Nagelsmann's men after last week's shock home loss
to Augsburg.
But Sane netted for the ninth time this
season as Bayern, chasing a 10th straight Bundesliga title, restored their
one-point advantage over Dortmund.
Bielefeld remain second-bottom in the table,
four points from safety.
Dortmund had earlier gone top with a 3-1 win
at Wolfsburg when
Erling Haaland scored on his return from injury.
The return of Haaland is a huge boost for
Dortmund, who host Bayern next weekend in a top-of-the-table clash.
Haaland netted his 50th Bundesliga goal in
as many games, just eight minutes after coming off the bench in the second half
following a five-week absence with a leg injury.
He tapped home a Julian Brandt cross, adding
to an Emre Can penalty and Donyell Malen goal for Dortmund after
Wout Weghorst
had given Wolfsburg an early lead.
"We missed him (Haaland) in the last
few weeks. He's a weapon," Brandt told Sky.
The win came three days after a 3-1 defeat
at Sporting Lisbon ended Dortmund's hopes of reaching the Champions League last
16.
"We needed to show a reaction after the
game on Wednesday," said Can, who was sent off in Lisbon.
Third-placed Freiburg are now eight points
adrift of second-placed Dortmund after their 2-1 defeat at Bochum handed the
visitors a third straight league loss.
Serbian striker Milos Pantovic scored
the winner eight minutes from time to ruin Christian Streich's 300th Bundesliga
game as Freiburg coach.
"It would have been a cool day if we
had won," admitted Streich.
Bayer Leverkusen can leapfrog Freiburg into
third 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 testing positive.
However, goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi could
return if a PCR test is negative Sunday.
Nine-goal thriller
There was a nine-goal thriller at bottom
side
Greuther Fuerth as Togo striker Ihlas Bebou bagged a hat-trick in
Hoffenheim's 6-3 victory.
The result moves Hoffenheim up to fifth,
while Fuerth claimed an unwanted Bundesliga record with an 11th straight defeat.
Augsburg backed up a shock win over Bayern
last time out with a last-gasp equalizer to seal a 1-1 draw at Hertha Berlin.
Michael Gregoritsch levelled for Augsburg
seven minutes into stoppage time.
Hertha assistant coach Andreas Neuendorf was
shown a red card in the aftermath.
The point was scant consolation for Hertha
after last weekend's 2-0 defeat by Union Berlin in the derby.
Cologne hammered Borussia
Moenchengladbach 4-1 in 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 equalized midway through the second
half to cancel out Ljubicic's goal.
Cologne pulled away with two goals in 90
seconds as Uth capitalized on a Florian Neuhaus mistake before Duda also hit
the net. Andersson scored their fourth in stoppage time.
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