Two second-half objectives from the substitute Jamal Musiala put Bayern Munich six factors clear on the prime of the Bundesliga with a nervous 4-2 dwelling victory over Heidenheim.
The Bavarian membership, who tackle Shakhtar Donetsk within the Champions League on Tuesday, have been with out the injured Harry Kane, Manuel Neuer and Serge Gnabry. Desirous to bounce again from their midweek German Cup defeat by Bayer Leverkusen,the hosts have been in management from the beginning and took an 18th-minute lead when unmarked Dayot Upamecano headed in.
Heidenheim equalised with their first probability of the match 5 minutes into the second half, due to Upamecano’s big defensive blunder that allowed Mathias Honsak to get possession and slot in undisturbed.
The guests’ pleasure solely lasted 5 minutes with Musiala drilling in from simply contained in the field to place his staff again in entrance. Goretzka then added a 3rd with a deflected shot within the 84th earlier than Heidenheim shortly pulled a aim again as soon as extra with Niclas Doresch’s tap-in.
Musiala settled the hosts’ nerves with a solo effort in stoppage time to make it 4-2 together with his eighth league aim of the marketing campaign. Bayern are in prime spot on 33 factors with Eintracht Frankfurt six factors behind in second after they drew 2-2 at dwelling in opposition to Augsburg.
Bayer Leverkusen struck twice within the first half to beat St Pauli 2-1 and make it three league wins in a row for the primary time this season. The defending champions wanted solely six minutes to take management of the sport with Florian Wirtz firing in from an excellent Granit Xhaka move.
Leverkusen doubled their lead after 21 minutes when the defender Jonathan Tah was left unmarked on the far publish to go in. St Pauli arrange a nervous finale after they pulled a aim backthrough Morgan Guilavogui. RB Leipzig are two factors behind in fourth after Benjamin Sesko arrange a 2-0 win at Holstein Kiel.
Borussia Dortmund’s Jamie Gittens fired in an excellent aim after a solo effort however his staff drew 1-1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach and stay with out an away win. The in-form English winger, who has now scored for a fourth straight recreation throughout all competitions, shook off two markers, reduce into the field and drove in his shot off the publish for a sixty fourth minute lead together with his fifth league aim.
Gladbach levelled within the 71st with a well-taken Kevin Stöger penalty after a prolonged VAR assessment. The hosts then had the 89th-minute substitute Tomas Cvancara despatched off for selecting up two yellow playing cards in added time. Dortmund, who’ve misplaced 4 and drawn two of their six away video games, are fifth on 21 factors.
In Spain, Hansi Flick stated his Barcelona facet have greater than sufficient high quality however must show it persistently after they stumbled to a 2-2 La Liga draw at Actual Betis.
Barça twice took the lead on the Benito Villamarín Stadium after objectives from Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres, however dwelling facet Betis fought again by Giovani Lo Celso’s penalty and a stoppage-time backheel from substitute Assane Diao to earn a share of the factors. “It wasn’t a great recreation. We’re a younger staff and we have to enhance quite a bit,” Flick stated.
Later Actual Madrid narrowed the hole on Barcelona to 2 factors with a commanding 3-0 win at Girona due to objectives from Jude Bellingham, Arda Guler and Kylian Mbappé.
Bellingham opened the scoring within the thirty sixth minute by capitalising on a unfastened ball and firing dwelling from the centre of the field earlier than organising Guler with a wonderful by ball to double the lead 10 minutes after the break. The England midfielder was pressured off injured shortly earlier than Mbappé made it 3-0 with a shot from a good angle simply after the hour.
“Bellingham has scored his fifth aim in a row. He’s again and in good kind,” stated the Actual Madrid supervisor, Carlo Ancelotti. “Mbappé scored immediately too … we now have to hold in there, little by little we’re coming again. The staff had extra readability and extra concepts. I feel the second half went very properly.”
Las Palmas adopted up final weekend’s win over Barça with a 2-1 success over rock-bottom Actual Valladolid thanks to 2 objectives from Sandro Ramírez. Pathé Ciss’s early header was sufficient to earn Rayo Vallecano a 1-0 victory at Valencia, who keep second from backside.
In Italy, Juventus got here from two objectives all the way down to salvage a 2-2 draw at dwelling to Bologna with Samuel Mbangula’s added-time aim sustaining their unbeaten report in Serie A this season. Juve stay sixth on 27 factors, seven factors off leaders Atalanta.
Dan Ndoye gave the guests a deserved lead on the half-hour mark and so they doubled their benefit seven minutes after the break by Tommaso Pobega. Teun Koopmeiners pulled one again for Juventus 10 minutes later and, with time working out, Mbangula struck from outdoors the world to grab a last-gasp draw.
The Juventus supervisor, Thiago Motta, taking over his former membership, was proven a pink card early within the second half for his protests earlier than Bologna discovered a second aim.
Roma ended a run of 4 straight league defeats and secured a primary win underneath Claudio Ranieri as they thrashed Lecce 4-1 on the Stadio Olimpico. Alexis Saelemaekers, Gianluca Mancini, Niccolò Pisilli and Manu Koné all discovered the web to assist the hosts transfer as much as eleventh within the desk.
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