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Bayern Munich's defender Jonathan Tah and Freiburg's forward Lucas Hoeler (right) vie for a header during the Bundesliga match in Freiburg, south-western Germany. (AFP)
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Bayern beat Freiburg to reclaim top spot after Kompany illness

Bayern Munich reclaimed top spot in the Bundesliga with a 3-1 win at Freiburg on Sunday, days after coach Vincent Kompany was hospitalised when he collapsed at training.Bayern were missing several first-team players and Kompany, but cruised to a two-goal lead at half-time with Dayot Upamecano and Serge Gnabry scoring.Freiburg pulled one back and were pushing for a point in stoppage time when goalkeeper Mio Backhaus was caught out up the field, allowing Michael Olise to slide the ball into an empty net. Kompany remains in hospital and is being treated for a mystery virus, with Bayern saying Saturday the coach is likely to be out for "days, not weeks".Bayern leapfrogged Borussia Dortmund to top the table ahead of the duo's clash in Munich next week. Harry Kane had a close-range effort saved late in the second half but failed to find the net a day before the Ballon d'Or ceremony in London, with the England captain one of the favourites.Bayern arrived in the Black Forest after a tumultuous few days which left them lacking leaders. With coach Kompany still in hospital after collapsing on Friday, Englishman Aaron Danks was in the Bayern dugout.The visitors were also without injured captain Manuel Neuer, Luis Diaz, Jamal Musiala, Aleksandar Pavlovic and Kim Min-jae, while midfielder and Germany captain Joshua Kimmich was on bereavement leave due to the sudden death of his father.Bayern were in the unusual position of sitting back and absorbing pressure as Freiburg pushed, but took the lead after 16 minutes when Upamecano started and finished a length-of-the-field counter.The France defender won possession near his own box, played a one-two with Olise before thundering goalwards and sending a cool shot past Backhaus.Bayern doubled up just before the break when Gnabry latched onto a Nathaniel Brown pass and nutmegged Backhaus to score. With 10 minutes remaining, Kane stung Backhaus's palms from close range and the hosts went on an immediate counter, forcing Tom Bischof into conceding an own goal.The goal sparked Freiburg to life and Bayern 'keeper Jonas Urbig needed to make crucial saves from Igor Matanovic in the dying moments.With Freiburg and Backhaus pushing high, Olise won possession and scored to wrap up the victory.Hoffenheim scored three goals in the final 11 minutes, including the 1,000th league goal in their history, as they snapped Bayer Leverkusen's six-game winning streak with a 3-0 home victory.Hoffenheim, who beat Lyon by the same scoreline in the Europa League on Thursday, have now won three in a row. Leverkusen, who had claimed 13 of a possible 15 points before Sunday's match, could have gone into third place with victory but instead sit fourth.The best chance of the opening half fell to former Leverkusen forward Adam Hlozek when he rattled the post with 38 minutes gone. With the match looking headed for a scoreless draw, Leverkusen captain Edmond Tapsoba swept Fisnik Asllani's ankle while defending a cross, with the referee pointing to the spot after a VAR review.Andrej Kramaric's 79th-minute penalty was the 1000th goal in the club's history and put Hoffenheim on track for victory. With Leverkusen pushing for an equaliser, Hoffenheim broke on the counter and Alexander Prass scored, but he picked up a second yellow for removing his shirt in celebration, before leaving the pitch slapping himself on the forehead in dismay.Max Moerstedt added a third despite the one-man disadvantage in the sixth minute of stoppage time. 

Eintracht Frankfurt's Younes Ebnoutalib (left) in action with SC Freiburg's Matthias Ginter during their Bundesliga clash at Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany, on September 19, 2026. (Reuters)
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Frankfurt clip high-flying Freiburg's wings in Bundesliga

Freiburg missed a chance to return to the top of the Bundesliga table on Saturday, after being held to a 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt.Bayern Munich's ruthless 7-0 win over Union Berlin on Friday put the Bavarians ahead of Freiburg atop the table, but the Black Forest outfit failed to respond as they dropped points for the first time this season to remain second in the table.Several new members of Germany coach Jurgen Klopp's 44-man squad shone on both sides in a see-sawing encounter.Frankfurt's Younes Ebnoutalib finished off a lovely team move to score 10 minutes in, just days after celebrating a surprise maiden Germany call-up.Derry Scherhant, another of Klopp's lesser-known new additions, levelled things up for Freiburg but Jonathan Burkardt edged Frankfurt back in front.Scherhant created a second for Yuito Suzuki to grab Freiburg a point and leave them level with Bayern on 10 points.Freiburg's Philipp Treu, another member of Klopp's new-look Germany squad, told media: "Of course, I would have liked to join the national team as the league leader -- with my head held high."But now we're the hunters again. And we enjoy that, too."Borussia Dortmund can move past both to the top of the table with a win away at Stuttgart in Saturday's late game.West Ham loanee Niclas Fuellkrug continued his stunning form on his return to Germany, scoring for a third-straight Bundesliga match as hosts Werder Bremen came from two goals down to win 3-2 against Augsburg.Fuellkrug levelled things up with a blistering long-range effort in the 86th minute, before former Bayern defender Mitchell Weiser blasted in a winner in stoppage time.Elsewhere, Hamburg notched their first goal, win and points of the season in a comfortable 2-1 home victory over Cologne.Albert Gronbaek laid on goals for Nicolas Capaldo and Yussuf Poulsen to help the hosts, one of the historical giants of German football, drag themselves off the bottom of the table.Hamburg climbed past Borussia Moenchengladbach, who lost their fourth straight game in a wild 4-3 defeat by visitors Mainz.Just days after bidding farewell to sacked coach Eugen Polanski, things went from bad to worse for the hosts. Gladbach also missed a penalty in the defeat and are now the only Bundesliga side without a point after four matchdays. 

Bayer Leverkusen's forward Ernest Poku celebrates scoring the opening goal during against Freiburg in Leverkusen Sunday. AFP
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Leverkusen bounce back from PSG drubbing against Freiburg

Bayer Leverkusen found some solace at home Sunday after a Champions League humbling by Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-0 win over Freiburg in the Bundesliga.Dismantled 7-2 by the European champions at the same venue five days ago, Leverkusen got back to winning ways thanks to strikes by Ernest Poku and Edmond Tapsoba either side of the break.The victory took the 2023-24 double winners to fourth spot in the table, two points clear of Stuttgart, who host lowly Mainz in Sunday's final match.Leverkusen midfielder Jonas Hofmann told DAZN his side "shook off the 7-2 defeat" to PSG with Sunday's victory.Leverkusen have now won four in a row in the Bundesliga as part of a seven-match domestic unbeaten run.Coach Kasper Hjulmand, who replaced the sacked Erik ten Hag two games into the league season, is yet to taste defeat in the Bundesliga.The loss was Freiburg's first in the league since August.These two sides played out a 2-2 draw in May but only three players who started for Leverkusen on Sunday were at the club last season.After 22 minutes, Spain midfielder Aleix Garcia played a clever one-two with Poku, who hit a low shot into the bottom right corner to give the hosts the lead.It was the eighth time in eight league games this season Leverkusen have scored first.The hosts doubled up seven minutes into the second half when Tapsoba muscled through the Freiburg defence to head in an Alejandro Grimaldo cross.With 15 minutes remaining, Freiburg were reduced to 10 men when Philipp Lienhart picked up a second yellow."I feel everything was decided even before the red card. It feels good," Hofmann added of Leverkusen's performance.