2018/19 German Bundesliga – Round 14 – The Revierderby winners and league leaders

Bottom-table Fortuna Dusseldorf opened the round with a defeat against Werder Bremen.

Jadon Sancho scored the winning goal for Borussia Dortmund to remain unbeaten and 7 points clear at the top of the league standings after taking 3 points at the VELTINS-Arena in the Revierderby against Schalke 04.

Robert Lewandowski scored a brace as Bayern Munich easily saw off Nurnberg to move up to third in the standings after RB Leipzig endured a 3-0 defeat at Freiburg.

Andrej Kramaric scored a 71st-minute equalizing goal for Hoffenheim to avoid defeat to a Wolfsburg side that was on a streak of beating teams in contention for a place in the top 4 of the standings.

A defeat against Hertha Berlin made it a consecutive defeat in the league for Eintracht Frankfurt.

Borussia Monchengladbach closed the round with 3 points from 3 goals against Stuttgart.

Briefings
December 7, 2018
Werder Bremen 3–1 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Werder Bremen – Kevin Mohwald 20’Martin Harnik 71’ Joshua Sargent 78’
Fortuna Dusseldorf –

December 8, 2018
Bayern Munich 3–0 Nurnberg
Bayern Munich – Robert Lewandowski 9’ 27’ Franck Ribery 56’

Schalke 1–2 Borussia Dortmund
Schalke – Daniel Caligiuri 61’(pen)
Borussia Dortmund – Thomas Delaney 7’ Jadon Sancho 74’

Bayer Leverkusen 1–0 Augsburg
Bayer Leverkusen – Lucas Alario 75’

Freiburg 3–0 RB Leipzig
Freiburg – Nils Petersen 12’ Gian-Luca Waldschmidt 45+1’(pen) Mike Frantz 52’

Wolfsburg 2–2 Hoffenheim
Wolfsburg – Ermin Bicakcic 28’(o.g) Daniel Ginczek 31’
Hoffenheim – Ishak Belfodil 4’ Andrej Kramaric 71’

Hertha Berlin 1–0 Eintracht Frankfurt
Hertha Berlin – Marko Grujic 40’

December 9, 2018
Mainz 05 1–1 Hannover 96
Mainz 05 – Daniel Brosinski 86’(pen)
Hannover 96 – Hendrik Weydandt 12’

Borussia Monchengladbach 3–0 Stuttgart
Borussia Monchengladbach – Raffael 69’ Florian Neuhaus 77’ Benjamin Pavard 84’(og)