German Bundesliga – Round Ten

November 4, 2016

Hertha Berlin                                    3-0               Borussia Monchengladbach

Salomon Kalou 18’ 33’ 84’

Hertha Berlin bounced back from their away defeat to Hoffenheim with a home win against Monchengladbach.  Salomon Kalou’s hat-trick made it gave Hertha Berlin  the win in an evenly contested match.

November 5, 2016

Bayern Munich                         1-1             Hoffenheim

Steven Zuber 34’(o.g)                                Kerem Demirbay 16’

Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim showed  us why they are unbeaten in the German Bundesliga by denying each other a winning goal.  

Both teams came into the match undefeated and left with their record intact. Both teams had great opportunities to win and failed to take it.

After ten matched in the 2016/17 season of the German Bundesliga, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim are still unbeaten.  

The good news for other title contenders is that both teams dropped points in this match. The bad news is that they are both difficult to beat.

Bayer Leverkusen                 3-2                        Darmstadt

Hakan Calhanoglu 32’                                      Antonio-Mirko Colak 47’

Julian Brandt 56’                                                Mario Vrancic 85’

Charles Aranguiz 69’

At the end, it was a close match, but Bayer Leverkusen got a home victory against Darmstadt without trailing at any point in the match.

Hamburger SV                                   2-5                     Borussia Dortmund

Nicolai Muller 55’ 81’                                             Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 4’ 23’ 27’48’                                                                                     Ousmane Dembele 76’

Aubameyang scored four to punish winless Hamburger SV.

While archrival Bayern was dropping points, Borussia Dortmund was doing their best to close the gap.

Aubameyang scored 80% of Dortmund’s goals for the team to decimate a winless Hamburger SV to pick up 3 points.

Ingolstadt                                     0-2                             Augsburg

                                                                                         Raul Marcelo Bobadilla 85’

                                                                                         Halil Altintop 90’

Ingolstadt remains winless in the 2016/17 Bundesliga season after a home defeat against Augsburg.

It was Augsburg first win five league matches.

Freiburg                                      0-3                               Wolfsburg

                                                                                         Mario Gomez 41’ 53’

                                                                                         Ricardo Rodriguez 86’

Wolfsburg got a second victory of the season from their away match against Freiburg.

Everything went well for Wolfsburg, as many wouldn’t have predicted a win with the sort of performance we’ve seen from the team this season.

Eintracht Frankfurt                     1-0                                    FC Koln

Mijat Gacinovic 5’

Frankfurt defeated FC Koln to move level on points in the league standings.

It was a difficult match to predict. An early goal and home advantage made the difference at the end.

November 6, 2016

RB Leipzig                                               3-1                        Mainz 05

Timo Werner 3’ 44’                                                           Stefan Bell  74’

Emil Forsberg 21’

RB Leipzig is writing history at the moment.

Timo Werner scored a brace to see that newly promoted RB Leipzig remained undefeated after a home victory over Mainz 05.

Schalke 04                                           3-1                 Werder Bremen

Alessandro Schopf 35’63’                                          Serge Gnabry 42’(pen)

Nabil Bentaleb 38’

Schalke is now undefeated in 9 consecutive matches in all competitions after getting their third win of their season from Werder Bremen.