German Bundesliga

2018/19 German Bundesliga – Round 17 – Borussia Dortmund leads Bundesliga into the winter break.

December 21, 2018
Borussia Dortmund 2–1 Borussia Monchengladbach
Borussia Dortmund – Jadon Sancho 42’ Marco Reus 54’
Borussia Monchengladbach – Christoph Kramer 45+1’

December 22, 2018
Bayer Leverkusen 3–1 Hertha Berlin
Bayer Leverkusen – Kevin Volland 6’ Kai Havertz 23’49’
Hertha Berlin – Jordan Torunarigha 26’

RB Leipzig 3–2 Werder Bremen
RB Leipzig – Lukas Klostermann 22’ Timo Werner 44’ Bruma 87’
Werder Bremen – Max Kruse 67’ Joshua Sargent 77’

Stuttgart 1–3 Schalke
Stuttgart – Nicolas Gonzalez 76’
Schalke – Steven Skrzybski 10’ Salif Sane 70’ Ahmed Kutucu 78’

Hannover 0–1 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Fortuna Dusseldorf – Oliver Fink 90+2’

Nurnberg 0–1 Freiburg
Freiburg – Manuel Gulde 19’

Eintracht Frankfurt 0–3 Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich – Franck Ribery 35’ 79’ Rafinha 89’

December 23, 2018
Augsburg 2–3 Wolfsburg
Augsburg – Rani Khedira 49’ Sergio Cordova 59’
Wolfsburg – Joshua Guilavogui 33’ William 41’ Yannick Gerhardt 89’

Hoffenheim 1-1 Mainz
Hoffenheim – Kerem Demirbay 11’
Mainz – Jean-Philippe Mateta 16’

Midway point in the season and Dortmund goes into the winter break 6 points clear at the top of the German Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund kicked off the round with a win at home against Borussia Monchengladbach. Marco Reus scored the winning goal to allow Dortmund to open a 9-point gap between the two sides.

Bayern Munich replaced Monchengladbach as second in the league by securing 3 points at Frankfurt. Franck Ribery’s goals allowed Bayern Munich to take the maximum advantage of the ‘Dortmund v Monchengladbach’ result.

After fighting back from two goals down to get level, Weder Bremen suffered defeat at Leipzig.

Bruma’s late goal allowed RB Leipzig to bounce back from midweek defeat to Bayern.

Schalke finds victory at Stuttgart.

While recently-promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf made it three wins in a row by beating Hannover 96, Nurnberg is stuck at the bottom of the standings after a defeat at home to Freiburg.

Augsburg attempt to secure maximum points at home after coming from 2 goals down, ended up costing them when Wolfsburg regain the lead from a counter attack.

And in the final match of the round, Mainz held on to a ‘1-1’ draw to get a point away against Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim vs Bayern Munich will kick-start the return of the German Bundesliga on January 18, 2018.

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