All three of Bayern’s goal scorers had a goal disallowed by VAR
Bayern Munich started their title defense season on 3 points after a victory against Hoffenheim in the 2018/19 German Bundesliga season-opening fixture. Thomas Muller opened the scoring from the season and match in the 23rd minute to see the champions go into the break a goal up. Robert Lewandowski had to convert from the spot to reinstate Bayern’s lead after Adam Szalai brought Hoffenheim back on level terms in the 57th-minute before Arjen Robben secured all three points with a 90th-minute insurance goal for Bayern Munich.
Eintracht Frankfurt wins away at Freiburg. Newly-promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf lost their lead in the second half to end their opening match of the season on the wrong end of a ‘2-1’ score against Augsburg. Hertha Berlin defeats newly-promoted Nurnberg by a first-goal. Mikael Ishak missed the opportunity to give Nurnberg the equalizing goal and a point when he missed to convert a penalty kick in the 85th minute.
The goals came in the final quarter of the regulation time as Werder Bremen and Hannover 96 played out a ‘1-1’ draw in their season opener.
Schalke 04 (2nd place finish) started their season on a ‘2-1’ defeat to a Wolfsburg (relegation play-off survivor). A 10-man Schalke had to leave empty-handed when Daniel Ginczek scored a stoppage-time winner for Wolfsburg.
Thorgan Hazard missed a first-half penalty that could have opened the scoring for Borussia Monchengladbach in their match against Bayer Leverkusen, but Jonas Hofmann made amend in the second-half from the spot before Fabian Johnson scored the goal to secure maximum points.
Anthony Ujah scored the only goal of the match in the 76th-minute to give Mainz 05 a winning start to their season at home against Stuttgart.
In the highlighted fixture of the opening round, Jean-Kevin Augustin scored the fastest goal in Bundesliga history when he gave RB Leipzig the lead against Borussia Dortmund 32 seconds from kick-off, but Dortmund was able to come from a goal down to take a 2-goal lead to the break before Marco Reus added the fourth goal in additional time to seal a ‘4-1’ victory for the home side. Reus’s goal was his 100th Bundesliga goal.
