Midweek Bangers – Bayern does the necessary to keep top spot in the Bundesliga.

GERMAN BUNDESLIGA

At the midpoint of the 2020/21 German Bundesliga season, Bayern Munich are the team on top of the league standings (as expected).

Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig picked up narrow wins (1-0) to keep the gap at the top at 4 points.
Leverkusen beat Dortmund to remain 3 points from second place.
Dortmund’s defeat allowed Wolfsburg to match them in point tally with a win at Mainz.

Two games after breaking a long streak without a win, Schalke looks to have kicked off another winless run.
Jan Thilmann scored the winning goal in the additional minutes to hand FC Koln a 2-1 win against Schalke.

Robert Lewandowski is on pace to keep the Bundesliga season top scorer award for the fourth straight year.

Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munic) 22 goals
Erling Haaland – 12 goals
Wout Weghorst (Wolfsburg) – 12 goals
Andre Silva (Frankfurt) – 12 goals
Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim) – 10 goals.

COMING UP NEXT …

It will be ‘first vs last’ in the league standings when Bayern Munich visits Schalke in the coming round, and it will be ‘second place vs second to last place’ when RB Leipzig visit Mainz.

Bayern Munich are the overwhelming favorites to come out of their fixtures with the maximum points.

With the knowledge the chasing pack must aim for nothing but a win.
Leverkusen will need to fend off a Wolfsburg side that are just win from equal points.
Dortmund must bounce back from poor performance and defeat in this round with a win. Dortmund must fend off a Monchengladbach side that will be planning on getting a win at home to leap 2 points above Dortmund in the standings.

Union Berlin could benefit greatly from the fixtures around them with a win at Augsburg.
Frankfurt can do the same with a win against Arminia Bielfeld.

Round 18.
January 22, 2021
Monchengladbach vs Dortmund

January 23, 2021
Arminia Bielefeld vs Frankfurt
Augsburg vs Union Berlin
Leverkusen vs Wolfsburg
Freiburg vs Stuttgart
Mainz vs RB Leipzig
Hertha Berlin vs Werder Bremen

January 24, 2021
Schalke vs Bayern Munich
Hoffenheim vs FC Koln