Berlin (AFP)
While the title of champion of Germany can hardly escape him anymore, Bayern Munich will perhaps play the referees Saturday in the race for the Champions League, by moving to Leverkusen (15:30), in the fight to integrate the top-4 qualifier.
Five teams can still enter the leading square: Bayern (67 pts) no longer risk anything, Dortmund (60 pts) and Leipzig (58 pts) have a small safety margin, but Mönchengladbach and Leverkusen (56 pts each) n 'have no jokers.
The teammates of Marcus Thuram and Alassane Pléa play this Friday in Friborg, a midfield team. If they win, Leverkusen will be under pressure because only a victory against Bayern would allow him to be back in the lead.
Dortmund for its part will have to be on a good day so as not to be surprised by the Hertha Berlin, the team in shape since the post-coronavirus recovery (10 pts taken out of 12 possible in May). Leipzig receives the last Paderborn, which has just been strung 6-1 by Dortmund.
At the bottom of the table, Paderborn (19 pts) is practically doomed. Just above, Bremen (17th, 25 pts), Düsseldorf (16th, 27 pts) and Mainz (15th, 28 pts) are struggling to maintain. The last two will descend to the second division, the 16th will play the play-offs against the third of D2.
Program
Friday June 5:
(8:30 p.m.) Friborg - Mönchengladbach
Saturday June 6
(3.30 p.m.) Leipzig - Paderborn
Leverkusen - Bayern Munich
Frankfurt - Mainz
Düsseldorf - Hoffenheim
(6.30 p.m.) Dortmund - Hertha Berlin
Sunday June 7
(1:30 p.m.) Bremen - Wolfsburg
(3.30 p.m.) Union Berlin - Schalke
(6:00 p.m.) Augsburg - Cologne
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