2018/19 German Bundesliga – Round 18 – The top three in the league standings restart the season with victories.

German Bundesliga
Round 18
Briefings

Borussia Dortmund picks up a vital three points to keep their place at the top of the league.
Luka Jovic scored a goal in Frankfurt’s win against Freiburg to become top goalscorer on 13 goals.

January 18, 2019
Hoffenheim 1-3 Bayern Munich
Hoffenheim – Nico Schulz 59’
Bayern Munich – Leon Goretzka 34’ 45+1’ Robert Lewandowski 87’

January 19, 2019
Bayer Leverkusen 0-1 Borussia Monchengladbach
Borussia Monchengladbach – Alassane Plea 37’

Stuttgart 2-3 Mainz
Stuttgart – Nicolas Gonzalez 83’ Marc-Oliver Kempf 85’
Mainz – Santiago Ascaciber 22’(og) Jean-Philippe Mateta 28’ Alexander Hack 72’

Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 Freiburg
Eintracht Frankfurt – Sebastein Haller 36’ Ante Rebic 40’ Luka Jovic 45’
Freiburg – Nils Petersen 69’

Augsburg 1-2 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Augsburg – Jonathan Schmid 64’
Fortuna Dusseldorf – Marvin Ducksch 45’ Benito Raman 89’

Hannover 0-1 Werder Bremen
Werder Bremen – Milot Rashica 32’

RB Leipzig 0-1 Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund – Axel Witsel 19’

January 20, 2019
Nurnberg 1–3 Hertha Berlin
Nurnberg – Hanno Behrens 42’
Hertha Berlin – Vedad Ibisevic 15’ Ondrej Duda 50’ 70’

Schalke 2-1 Wolfsburg
Schalke – Daniel Caligiuri 8’(pen) 78’
Wolfsburg – Elvis Rexhbecaj 20’

Leon Goretzka scored two first-half goals for Bayern Munich reopened the season with a ‘3-1’ away victory at Hoffenheim

Yann Sommer played a big role for Borussia Monchengladbach to get the result at Leverkusen and keep themselves up the table with the Bayern and Dortmund.

Late goals from Stuttgart allowed them to lose by a bearable margin against Mainz.

Frankfurt began 2019 with a victory by beating Freiburg 3-1. And with Dortmund’s victory against RB Leipzig, Frankfurt is a point away from the ‘top four’

Augsburg remained out of the dropzone despite defeat to Fortuna Dusseldorf (because of Stuttgart’s failure to win)

It was a 7th winless league match for relegation zoned Hannover 96 after a home defeat to Werder Bremen.

Dortmund passed another test by beating a ‘top four’ side RB Leipzig to keep their 6-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga standings.

Ondrej Duda‘s goals in the second-half restored Hertha Berlin’s lead and gave his side an away victory against bottom-table Nurnberg.

Schalke opened the second round of the season with a victory and denied Wolfsburg the opportunity to move level on points with RB Leipzig. Daniel Caligiuri provided both goals for Schalke; not bad work from a defender.