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Coutinho hat trick as Bayern bounces back to rout Bremen 6-1

Philippe Coutinho of FC Bayern Muenchen celebrates after scoring his team's sixth goal with team mates during the Bundesliga match between FC Bayern Muenchen and SV Werder Bremen at Allianz Arena.Bayern Munich's Philippe Coutinho scored a hat-trick and Robert Lewandowski added two more goals as the champions demolished Werder Bremen 6-1 on Saturday to impressively bounce back from two straight league defeats.The Bavarians, missing several players through injury, climbed to fourth place on 27 points, just four behind leaders Borussia Moenchengladbach who are in action against VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday. Bayern fell behind in the 24th minute from a Milot Rashica goal after once more wasting several golden chances, including missed chances from top scorer Lewandowski, as had been the case i...
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Bayern Munich beaten by leaders Borussia Monchengladbach

Ramy Bensebaini of Borussia Monchengladbach celebrates with Nico Elvedi and Stefan Lainer after scoring his team's first goal during the Bundesliga match between Borussia Moenchengladbach and FC Bayern Muenchen at Borussia-Park.Bundesliga leaders Borussia Monchengladbach scored an injury-time winner to beat champions Bayern Munich.Bayern - who have won the title for the past seven years - are now in sixth, seven points behind Gladbach.They had led when Ivan Perisic smashed home from the edge of the box.But Ramy Bensebaini powered in a header to level and then scored an injury-time penalty to seal a dramatic victory after Javi Martinez fouled Marcus Thuram in the box and was sent off.Bayern - who lost Corentin Tolisso to a first-half hamstring injury - have now lost two league games in a ro...
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Bayern Munich suffers first defeat under Flick, lose at home to Leverkusen

Leon Bailey of Leverkusen celebrating his goal for the lead during the Bundesliga match between FC Bayern Munich and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at Allianz Arena.Bayern Munich missed the chance to return to the top of the Bundesliga with a home loss to Bayer Leverkusen, the first under interim coach Hansi Flick.Bayern sit fourth in the table and have now lost two league games at home this season having lost just once at the Allianz Arena last term.Leon Bailey scored twice for Bayer Leverkusen, who also had Jonathan Tah sent off late on. Thomas Muller briefly drew the hosts level in the first period.However, Bayern were unusually wasteful in front of goal with Robert Lewandowski unable to continue his remarkable recent goalscoring form.
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Bayern Munich cruise to an easy win in Dusseldorf

Bayern Munich crushed hosts Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-0 on Saturday to climb to within a point of the top with their third straight win under interim coach Hansi Flick.Champions Bayern found no resistance in the first half and had fired in three goals by the 34th minute through Benjamin Pavard, Corentin Tolisso and Serge Gnabry.Although Robert Lewandowski failed to score for the 12th straight league game, ending his record run, he did set up Philippe Coutinho for Bayern's fourth goal in the 70th minute.Bayern moved up to 24 points, one behind Gladbach who were stunned 2-0 by promoted Union for their first league loss after three straight wins.
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Borussia Dortmund fight from three goals down to rescue draw

Marco Reus scored a stoppage-time equaliser to rescue a 3-3 draw for Borussia Dortmund against struggling Paderborn on Friday, having been 3-0 behind at half-time, but they still suffered a dent to their Bundesliga title hopes.The visitors played a dream first half, with Streli Mamba scoring twice and Gerrit Holtman also on target as they outpaced the hosts and hit them on the break to leave Dortmund shell-shocked and the home fans jeering the team off at half-time.Jadon Sancho pulled one back two minutes after the restart as Dortmund shot out of the blocks to set a blistering pace but despite their total dominance and a bagful of chances, they did not score again until Axel Witsel headed home a second in the 84th minute.Reus rescued a point for Dortmund deep in added time to move them up ...
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Frankfurt's David Abraham banned for seven weeks for barging over opposition coach

Eintracht Frankfurt captain David Abraham will not play again in 2019 after being banned until 29 December and fined €25,000 on Wednesday for barging Freiburg coach Christian Streich during a Bundesliga match.A sports court of the German Football Association (DFB) hit Abraham with the hefty fine and seven-week ban for “assaulting an opponent” after shoulder barging Streich on the sidelines of Sunday’s league game.Eintracht Frankfurt immediately said they will appeal “in order to give David Abraham the opportunity” to explain his side of the story.The 33-year-old Argentinian was shown a red card for hitting Streich, 54, with his shoulder after the ball had gone out of play at the end of a bad-tempered German league match. Hosts Freiburg won 1-0 thanks to Nils Petersen’s second-half goa...
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Herrmann double keeps Gladbach four clear in German league

Borussia Monchengladbach maintain their four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga as winger Patrick Herrmann scored twice in an emphatic 3-1 hone win over Werder Bremen.RB Leipzig, who won at Hertha Berlin, and defending champions Bayern Munich, who routed Dortmund 4-0 at the Allianz Arena, had both trimmed ‘Gladbach’s lead to just a point with their wins on Saturday.However, goals by Ramy Bensebaini and Herrmann’s double on Sunday sealed their win to restore Gladbach’s four-point lead at the top.Bremen midfielder Leonardo Bittencourt netted a late consolation goal for the visitors deep into added time.Hosts Gladbach took the lead at Borussia Park with two goals inside 107 seconds.Midfielder Laszlo Benes whipped in a free-kick and left-back Bensebaini out-jumped the Bremen defence to po...
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Hansi Flick To Remain Bayern Munich Coach After Borussia Dortmund Result

Bayern Munich’s interim coach Hansi Flick was to be in charge for only two matches but club CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said on Saturday he would remain until further notice after the side’s 4-0 demolition of Bundesliga title rivals Borussia Dortmund.Flick made an emphatic debut in the Bundesliga after leading the team to a 2-0 victory over Olympiakos in the Champions League to qualify for the knockout stages.“We will continue working with Hansi Flick until further notice,” Rummenigge told reporters. “He said two games was his first finish line. Well he has crossed that line tonight with flying colours, and now we will calmly continue with him.”Asked whether he would also be in charge in their next game at Fortuna Duesseldorf on Nov. 23 after the international break, Rummenigge said: “O...
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Bayern Munich sack struggling manager Niko Kovac after dropping to fourth place on the log

German champions Bayern Munich have parted company with coach Niko Kovac, a day after a 5-1 thrashing away to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, the club said.A statement from Bayern said Kovac had gone after “mutual agreement” between him and the club, which dropped to fourth in the league after their heavy defeat. Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: “The performance of our team in recent weeks and the results have shown us that there was the need for action.“I had an open and serious conversation with Niko on this basis on Sunday with the consensual result that Niko is no longer coach of Bayern.”Defeat by Eintracht was Bayern’s second of the season but they have also drawn three matches. “We all regret this development. I would like to thank Niko Kovac on behalf of FC B...
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Robert Lewandowski breaks Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal-scoring record to send Niko Kovac's side top of the Bundesliga despite late scare

Bayern catapulted themselves to the top of the Bundesliga table with a 2-1 win over lowly Union Berlin, as Robert Lewandowski broke a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang goal-scoring record with his 13th of the season.Niko Kovac's side were looking to bounce back from a disappointing away draw to Augsburg last week and got off to a flyer when French defender Benjamin Pavard struck from long range after just 13 minutes.Robert Lewandowski made it 2-0 after 53 minutes. He has now scored in his ninth straight league game, breaking Aubameyang's previous record of eight. That's the Polish striker's 13th goal domestically this season. He also had a strike in the 84th minute ruled out by VAR. Sebastian Andersson missed the opportunity to pull one back after his penalty was saved by Manuel Neuer ju...
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Borussia Monchengladbach go top with 5-1 win over Augsburg

Borussia Monchengladbach moved top of the Bundesliga by stretching its winning run to four games with a 5-1 win over Augsburg on Sunday.Patrick Herrmann scored twice and the result was effectively decided in the first 13 minutes when Gladbach raced into a three-goal lead.Marcus Thuram surged forward and beat an Augsburg defender before cutting the ball back for Denis Zakaria in the second minute, Herrmann scored in similar fashion in the eighth, when Alassane Plea pulled the ball back, and Herrmann combined with Plea again to make it 3-0 in the 13th.A mistake from Augsburg 'keeper Tomas Koubek gifted Plea the fourth goal in the 39th. Koubek tripped over his own feet as he attempted to control Felix Uduokhai's back pass and was helpless to stop the grateful Plea from scoring.Augsburg had a ...
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Borussia Dortmund expect to lose Sancho to premier league club

Borussia Dortmund expect to lose England winger Jadon Sancho to a Premier League club with both Manchester United and City reportedly tracking the teenager, director of sport Michael Zorc has admitted.After turning down a new Manchester City contract to join Dortmund in August 2017, Sancho, still only 19, made his England debut last October on the back of stunning performances for the German club.He has scored 18 goals with 29 assists in 64 games for Dortmund who in the current market can expect around 100 million euros ($109 million) for Sancho having paid eight million pounds for him after he signed a five-year deal until June 2022.According to the British media, United and ex-club City are monitoring him.Sancho has made a great start to the season with four goals and six assists in nine...
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Bayern Munich handed major injury boost ahead of Champions League clash

Bayern Munich will be at full strength for their Champions League group stage meeting with Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday.The German champions, who comfortably beat Red Star Belgrade in their Group B opener, will be looking to continue their 100 percent start to the competition against a Spurs side that squandered a two-goal lead to draw with Olympiacos in Athens earlier this month.It will be a first ever trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for Munich and Niko Kovac has been given an injury boost ahead of their trip to London.Bayern Munich’s official club website revealed that on-loan Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic, who missed their Bundesliga victory over Paderborn on Saturday with a ‘flu-like infection, is fit and available for selection and is likely to part of their travelling party f...
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Bayern bosses congratulate Fritz Keller on becoming new DFB President

Fritz Keller, President of SC Freiburg, has been elected to be the new president of the DFB. Kelle succeeds Reinhard Grindel, who stepped down from the post in April after a scandal-ridden term marred by the sporting failure in Russia, controversy over race, and corruption. Keller was officially elected for a three-year term by result of a unanimous, unopposed decision by a group of voting delegates at the DFB headquarter in Frankfurt.Bayern Munich club president Uli Hoeness and CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge congratulated the 62-year-old on his accomplishment. Both Hoeness and Rummenigge are fond of Keller and feel he’s the right man to lead the DFB to a better place in the future.Hoeness stated in a release at FCBayern.com,“I congratulate Fritz Keller for the unanimous result. I am ...
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Freiburg ease past Hoffenheim as Schalke make it two wins in a row

Freiburg ease past hosts Hoffenheim 3-0 on Sunday to climb to third place with their best-ever league start.First-half goals from Christian Guenter and Janik Haberer and a third on the hour by Nils Petersen gave Christian Streich’s team a deserved victory and maintained their fine start to the season.Freiburg are in third place on nine points, one ahead of champions Bayern Munich, who drew 1-1 at RB Leipzig on Saturday.Schalke 04 fired five goals past hosts Paderborn after falling a goal behind to earn their second straight win.Cauly put the hosts ahead but the Royal Blues roared back with goals from Salif Sane and Suat Serdar.Amine Harit then scored either side of an Ahmed Kutucu goal to make it 5-1 as Schalke climbed to seven points.Leipzig lead the standings on 10, with Borussia Dortmun...
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Bayern Munich thrash Mainz to stay second

Bayern Munich scored six times in a span of 45 minutes to come from a goal down and crush visitors Mainz 05 6-1 on Saturday and climb to seven points from three games, two off the top.After an unexpected home draw on the opening matchday Bayern have now won their last two matches convincingly, scoring nine goals and moving up to seven points.RB Leipzig are top on nine points after their 3-1 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday. Borussia Dortmund on six points, are in action at Union Berlin later on Saturday. Benjamin Pavard's fine volley in the 36th minute cancelled out Mainz's lead through a Jean-Paul Boetius header and launched Bayern's sustained attack.A sensational David Alaba free kick on the stroke of halftime turned the game around before Ivan Perisic gave Bayern a two-go...
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Robert Lewandowski score Hat-trick as Coutinho make his Bundesliga debut for Bayern

Robert Lewandowski single-handedly made Bayern Munich's quest for an eighth Bundesliga title look a lot more likely, as the Bavarian stalwart contributed a hat-trick to provide Niko Kovac's side with their first win of the season at Schalke.Unable to take three points from an opening game at Hertha Berlin when scoring twice, the Polish striker was avenged at the Veltins-Arena after Schalke were thrashed 3-0 by the title holders.Summer signings Phillipe Coutinho and Ivan Perisic both made their Bayern debuts, replacing Thomas Muller and Serge Gnabry despite Kovac expressing concerns about Barcelona loanee Coutinho's fitness in a pre-match press conference.Lewandowski produced the first chance of the game from an early free-kick, but the resulting shot was comfortably dealt with by Schalke's...
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Borussia Dortmund crush Augsburg to set title marker

Title contenders Borussia Dortmund crushed Augsburg 5-1 in their Bundesliga opener on Saturday, with two goals from Paco Alcacer, to lay down an emphatic marker after champions Bayern Munich slipped up in their first game of the season a day earlier.Augsburg stunned the hosts with Florian Niederlechner's goal after only 30 seconds but Dortmund quickly recovered to level with Spaniard Alcacer, Dortmund's top scorer last season, in the third minute.They turned up the tempo in the second half, scoring three goals in a span of eight minutes.England international Jadon Sanchofired them ahead in the 51st and the teenager then helped set up goals for Marco Reus and Alcacer. Substitute Julian Brandt volleyed in their fifth in the 82nd.Bayern, who have won the last seven consecutive league titles, ...
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Hertha hold Bayern Munich to a draw in season-opener

Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich were held to a frustrating  2-2 draw on the opening evening of the domestic season.Robert Lewandowski scored both goals for Nico Kovac's side but it wasn't enough against a spirited Hertha Berlin.The visitors were leading 2-1 before Lewandowski equalised from the penalty spot on the hour mark.
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Sancho leads Dortmund to German Supercup win over Bayern

England forward Jadon Sancho scored a goal and set-up another as Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 2-0 on Saturday to deny the German league and cup champions a fourth straight Supercup title. Jadon Sancho, 19, fed Spain forward Paco Alcacer for Dortmund's opener just after the break before clinching the victory and his side's first trophy since 2017 with a clinical finish within the final half an hour of play. "We absolutely wanted to win this match, it was very difficult," said Dortmund coach Lucien Favre."Bayern were very strong and had a lot of possession but we defended well and stayed very compact."We knew that we had to go on the counter-attack and we did that very well."Bayern, who pipped Favre's side to the Bundesliga title last season and lifted the German Cup, were ...
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