Bayern Munich has again increased the gap with pursuer RB Leipzig to four points. The leader of the Bundesliga was far too strong for VfB Stuttgart on Saturday afternoon: 4-0. The team of coach Hansi Flick played eighty minutes with ten men, after Alphonso Davies got red early in the game. Robert Lewandowski took 3 of the 4 hits and with 35 goals is 5 more hits from Gerd Müller’s Bundesliga record, who scored 40 times in the 1971/71 season. Eintracht Frankfurt won well against 1. FC Union Berlin (5-2) and continues to dream of his first participation in the Champions League. The club, which did participate once in the predecessor (European Cup I), is four points apart from Borussia Dortmund in fourth place.
Bayern Munich – VfB Stuttgart 4-0
The brand new quarter-finalist of the Champions League suffered a big downer early in the game, when Davies went too hard on Wataru Endo’s ankle and was sent off with a red card by referee Daniel Schlager. However, Bayern did not seem very upset by the under-game situation. Five minutes after the red card, Lewandowski gave the home side the lead after he got the point of his right shoe against the ball at the first post from a cross by Serge Gnabry. The latter doubled the score halfway through the first half, when he was at the end of a nice attack and finished with the left: 2-0.
Bayern did not leave Stuttgart at all in the first half and ended the game within five minutes. Thomas Müller put the ball on the head of Lewandowski, who enjoyed complete freedom and hit for his second of the afternoon: 3-0. The Polish striker completed his golden hat-trick before half-time, when he got the ball with some fortune and found the right corner with the left: 4-0. In the second half the storm died down. Lewandowski still had his fourth of the afternoon on the shoe on a pass from Benjamin Pavard, but failed face to face with goalkeeper Gregor Kobel.
Eintracht Frankfurt – 1. FC Union Berlin 5-2
Eintracht and Union turned it into a real spectacle on Saturday afternoon in the Commerzbank Arena, where André Silva already hit the target after two minutes. The attacker chose position for the goal, was found by Filip Kostic and easily finished: 1-0. For a long time, however, the home team could not enjoy the lead, when Max Kruse barely five minutes later worked the ball past goalkeeper Kevin Trapp with the left: 1-1. The game then went fairly evenly, until Eintracht was able to cheer three times in the space of five minutes, albeit with the help of Union. Robert Andrich thought he could play the ball back to Andreas Luthe, but unluckily pushed the ball past his own goalkeeper into the empty goal: 2-1.
Three minutes later it was again hit, when Kostic and Silva went on goal alone and the latter awarded the goal to the former FC Groningen winger: 3-1. After Silva then scored the 4-1 with a shot into the short corner, Kruse scored the 4-2 halftime score with a beautiful header over goalkeeper Trapp. In the second half, Eintracht controlled the game and the victory was hardly in danger. Andrich was closest to the tying goal, but was inaccurate in the completion and hit the bar. In the absolute final phase, Steven Zuber provided the final chord. The midfielder was at the end of a nice attack and finished from the inside of the right post: 5-2. Jetro Willems stayed on the bench at Eintracht for the entire match. Sheraldo Becker was missing from Union.
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