December 18, 2018
Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0 Nurnberg
Borussia Monchengladbach – Thorgan Hazard 47’ Alassane Plea 86’
Hertha Berlin 2-2 Augsburg
Hertha Berlin – Matthew Leckie 28’ Ondrej Duda 31’
Augsburg – Martin Hinteregger 8’ Ja-Cheaol Koo 39’
Wolfsburg 2-0 Stuttgart
Wolfsburg – Joshua Guilavogui 24’ Wout Weghorst 44’
Fortuna Dusseldorf 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Fortuna Dusseldorf – Dodi Lukebakio 22’ Jean Zimmer 56’
Borussia Dortmund – Francisco Alcacer 81’
December 19, 2018
Schalke 04 1-2 Bayer Leverkusen
Schalke 04 – Haji Wright 45+2’
Bayer Leverkusen – Aleksandar Dragovic 27’ Luca Alario 35’
Bayern Munich 1-0 RB Leipzig
Bayern Munich – Franck Ribery 83’
Werder Bremen 1-1 Hoffenheim
Werder Bremen – Theodor Gebre Selassie 87’
Hoffenheim – Leonardo Bittencourt 31’
Freiburg 1-1 Hannover 96
Freiburg – Gian-Luca Waldschmidt 3’(pen)
Hannover 96 – Felipe 14’
Mainz 05 2-2 Eintracht Frankfurt
Mainz 05 – Robin Quaison 10’ 36’
Eintracht Frankfurt – Luka Jovic 31’ 45+1’
Borussia Monchengladbach got the win to put them in position to close in on Borussia Dortmund when they face each other this weekend.
Hertha Berlin and Augsburg shared evenly shared 4 goals in the first half to earn a point each. For Augsburg it the 3rd draw in a 7-match winless streak.
4 wins and a draw in their last 5 league matches has Wolfsburg in touching distance from the ‘top four’ after victory against a Stuttgart side that was coming from a victory against Hertha Berlin.
Borussia Dortmund suffered their first league defeat of the season at the hands of newly-promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf. Who would have thought that it was going to take a newly-promoted team to end Dortmund’s unbeaten run in the league at 15 matches?
Schalke falls at home to Bayer Leverkusen to make it four league matches without a win.
The match ended with both teams getting a player sent off on a red card, but Franck Ribery scored an important goal for Bayern Munich to get a vital win at home to maintain their position in the league while opening up a 5-point gap between themselves and Leipzig.
It was the 5th straight draw for Hoffenheim in the league when Theodor Selassie’s late equalizer for Werder Bremen denied Hoffenheim from opening a 4 point gap between the two sides.
Hannover avoids defeat at Freiburg but didn’t do enough to help dig themselves out of the relegation zone.
Luka Jovic scored for Frankfurt to cancel Robin Quaison’s goals for Mainz. A brace for both players.
