2018/19 German Bundesliga – Round 9 – Dortmund dropped points to allow Bayern to close in with a win.

October 26, 2018
Freiburg 3–1 Borussia Monchengladbach
Freiburg – Nils Petersen 1’(pen) Gian-Luca Waldschmidt 57’ Lucas Holer 90+4’
Borussia Monchengladbach – Thorgan Hazard 20’(pen)

October 27, 2018
Borussia Dortmund 2–2 Hertha Berlin
Borussia Dortmund – Jadon Sancho 27’ 61’
Hertha Berlin – Salomon Kalou 41’ 90+1’(pen)

Hannover 96 1–2 Augsburg
Hannover 96 – Ihlas Bebou 72’
Augsburg – Rani Khedira 8’ Alfred Finnbogason 63’(pen)

Mainz 05 1–2 Bayern Munich
Mainz 05 – Jean-Paul Boetius 48’
Bayern Munich – Leon Goretzka 39’ Thiago Alcantara 62’

Fortuna Dusseldorf 0–3 Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg – Wout Weghorst 41’(pen) Josip Brekalo 73’ Daniel Ginczek 80’

Hoffenheim 4–0 Stuttgart
Hoffenheim -Joshua Brenet 48’ Joelinton 51’ Ishak Belfodil 57’ 60’

October 28, 2018
Nurnberg 1–1 Eintracht Frankfurt
Nurnberg – Adam Zrelak 78’
Eintracht Frankfurt – Sebastien Haller 90+2’

RB Leipzig 0–0 Schalke 04

Werder Bremen 2–6 Bayer Leverkusen
Werder Bremen – Claudio Pizarro 60’ Yuya Osako 63’
Bayer Leverkusen – Kevin Volland 8’ Julian Brandt 38’ Karim Bellarabi 45’ Kai Havertz 67’ Aleksandar Dragovic 72’ Sebastian Langkamp 77’(o.g)

Borussia Monchengladbach missed out on an opportunity to get closer to the top spot in the league standings after suffering an away defeat to Freiburg. 

Borussia Dortmund concedes a late goal through a penalty to drop point at home against Hertha Berlin. Hertha Berlin tripped Bayern Munich is the race to defend their title earlier this season and just did the same to a Borussia Dortmund on their way to break Bayern’s dominance in the Bundesliga. Salamon Kalou scored both of Hertha Berlin’s goals.

Augsburg picks up three points away against relegation-zoned Hannover 96.

Bayern Munich is a win away from the top after Thiago Alcantara got the winning goal for the team to pick up the maximum points from Mainz.

Newly-promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf comes from their 7-1 away thrashing against Frankfurt in the last round to a 3-0 home defeat to Wolfsburg.

Four goals in the second-half against a 10-man Stuttgart sealed a consecutive league victory for Hoffenheim.

Eintracht Frankfurt went from trashing recently-promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf in their last league match to being held from finishing the round in the ‘top 4’ by recently-promoted Nurnberg. Sebastien Haller’s injury-time equalizing goal was what saved Frankfurt from suffering a defeat.

It was goalless between RB Leipzig and Schalke 04. Schalke 04 remains in need of victories to avoid the relegation threat, while RB Leipzig has now dropped a couple of points in their last two league matches.

After going down 3 goals in the first half to Bayer Leverkusen, Werder Bremen made things interesting in the second-half when they pulled two goals back (two minutes apart) to put some pressure on the away team. But Leverkusen rose to the occasion and duplicated the first-half goal tally to comfortably secure the maximum points through a ‘6-2’ victory.