Berlin (AFP)
The second Leipzig and the third Leverkusen beaten on Saturday, Dortmund in distress!
Bayern, even tired, can take a seven-point lead in the lead on Sunday after 18 days in the Bundesliga, if he beats the red lantern Schalke.
Day after day, the pursuers of the "Rekordmeister" fall like skittles, and open a path to a 9th consecutive German championship title.
Before his trip to Schalke (3.30 p.m.), Munich is four points ahead of Leipzig and seven over Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.
Dortmund, still beaten 4-2 Friday night at Mönchengladbach, is no longer in the race and is now in 8th position at ten points.
Against all expectations, Leipzig, which will soon host Liverpool in the Champions League, lost on the lawn of 17th Mainz, which had scored only seven points in the 17 first leg matches!
Twice in the first period the RB took the advantage (by the American international Tyler Adams then Marcel Halstenberg) and twice Mainz came back to the score.
After the break, Luxembourg international Leandro Barreiro scored his first Bundesliga goal (3-2, 50th) and gave a prestigious and precious victory in Mainz, beating goalkeeper Peter Gulasci on a cross from the right .
The young RB boss Julian Nagelsmann lost his early afternoon smile after the match, when he was asked about the latest rumors, which make him a potential successor to Zinédine Zidane at Real Madrid: "There are definitely has more nasty things to read in the newspapers, he said, but I know that not everything in the newspaper is necessarily true. "
- Dortmund "the endless fall" -
Leverkusen, who had been at the top of the table in mid-December, was beaten at home 1-0 and caught by Wolfsburg, at 32 points: the two teams are in the top four, qualifying for the Champions League.
But Bayer are on a downward slope, with four losses in their last six games.
As for Dortmund, they are no longer in the race after their defeat on Friday and are now in 8th position at ten points.
This tumble was the subject of all comment on Saturday.
Borussia have only taken one point in their last three games, and it is clear that the change of coach in December (Edin Terzic for Lucien Favre) did not yield anything.
"The endless fall of Dortmund!"
exclaims the popular daily Bild, which advises managers not only to recruit the current Mönchengladbach coach Marco Rose next season, but also and above all to make radical changes among the workforce: "Rose, c he will not be able to solve Dortmund's problems of defense, consistency and character alone! "
"If the BVB continues like this, it risks an industrial accident!"
warns the Sport1 site, which points out that unless there is a turnaround, the club will have trouble finishing in the top-4 qualifier for the Champions League.
"The income of the Champions League is essential for the club, which has lost more than 100 million euros due to the covid-19 pandemic", recalls Sport1, "a season without the queen competition would be dramatic for development of the BVB ".
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