The German championship ended on Saturday with fireworks: 34 goals in 9 matches! Breel Embolo shone.
Assists at the start of the match, Breel Embolo went there from his goal 12 minutes from the end.
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Bayern Munich sealed their 30th German title on Saturday afternoon with a 4-0 victory at Wolfsburg (with Mbabu and Steffen) and received their trophy in the empty stadium. Dortmund, Leipzig and Mönchengladbach will accompany him next season in the Champions League. Paderborn and Düsseldorf descend to D2, and Bremen will play against the third in the second division.
Munich breaks records
The Bavarians end the season with 82 points and 100 goals, very close to the legendary 101 bar, reached only once in 1971-72 by the team of Franz Beckenbauer and “Bomber” Gerd Müller. The “Rekordmeister” also equaled its best historic result in return matches, with 49 points taken out of 51 possible. This record dates from 2013, the year of the championship / cup / Champions League treble.
One of the great architects of this success is Robert Lewandowski, who scored his 34th goal of the season from the penalty spot. The Pole takes down for the fifth time the symbolic “canon” of top scorer of Bundesliga. On Saturday, Kingsley Coman (4th), Michaël Cuisance (37th), Lewandowski (72nd) and Thomas Müller (79th) scored the goals of the victory.
M’Gladbach in the Champions League
Mönchengladbach, who was two points ahead of Leverkusen before kick-off, did not shake to confirm his fourth place. The “Foals”, with their Swiss trio (Sommer, Elvedi, Embolo) on the meadow, won 2-1 at home against Hertha Berlin.
In great shape at the moment, the Swiss international striker has shone again. It was him, after a superb call and an equally nice work in pivot, who offered the opening of the score to his teammate Jonas Hofmann (7th). Before breaking for himself (78th), his eighth goal in 28 Bundesliga games this season.
The miracle of Bremen
The lights were red for Bremen, penultimate and relegated to kick off. The Werder had to beat Cologne at home and hope for a defeat from Düsseldorf to Berlin against the Hertha, to grab in extremis the barrage place to try to save its place among the elite.
The Nordics, boosted, did the job by atomizing Cologne 6-1, including a double from the Japanese International Yuya Osako. And the miracle happened in Berlin, where the Union, which had nothing left to gain, defeated Düsseldorf 3-0.
The Werder will play its head on a round trip match (Thursday and Monday) against the third of the D2, which could be Heidenheim or … Hamburg, the other big club of the north, which has been patient in the second division for two seasons.
Werner’s farewell gift
Recruited by Chelsea, international striker Timo Werner played his last match in the Leipzig jersey (Yvon Mvogo was in goal) and scored twice in the victory at Augsburg (2-1, goal by Lucernois Ruben Vargas for local).
To the great regret of his coach Julian Nagelsmann, Werner will not play in August the final phase of the Champions League in Portugal, for which Leipzig is already qualified. With 94 goals for Leipzig in four seasons, the 24-year-old ended his stay in Saxony by breaking the goal record for a club player. This season, he has shaken the nets 28 times, and finishes second in the championship behind Lewandowski.
With Roman Bürki in his cage, Lucien Favre’s Borussia Dortmund took the water at home against Hoffenheim (0-4). An encounter marked by the Kramaric quadruplet.
(AFP / JSa)
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