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Freiburg (AP) - RB Leipzig impressively presented in the title duel with FC Bayern Munich and took over the league leadership of the Bundesliga for at least a few hours.

The team of coach Julian Nagelsmann prevailed 3-0 (1-0) at SC Freiburg on Saturday and moved one point ahead of the record champions.

In the top game against Borussia Dortmund, the Munich team can add up on Saturday evening (6.30 p.m. / Sky).

Christopher Nkunku (41st minute), Alexander Sörloth (64th) and Emil Forsberg (79th) scored the sixth Leipzig Bundesliga victory in a row.

While the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann presented itself like a championship team in sunny weather in the Black Forest Stadium, the Freiburg team showed one of their weakest performances of the season.

However, RB first had to be patient.

Freiburg was extremely low right from the start and defended almost every guest attack with the entire team.

As a result, RB had the ball almost permanently, but did not find any solutions against the host's bulwark.

SC coach Christian Streich was satisfied with it for a long time.

"Resistance, resistance", Streich repeatedly demanded of his players.

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But the first Freiburg mistake broke the resistance.

Shortly before the break, goalkeeper Florian Müller opened the game flat through the middle, where Baptiste Santamaria was immediately disturbed by Leipzig's Kevin Kampl after the risky pass.

As a result, the ball jumped to Yussuf Poulsen, who only had to cross over to Nkunku.

This hit the empty gate.

The hosts delivered a harmless performance over long stretches.

Instead of forcing the attack on the European Cup places, the SC only became a little braver after the goal.

Ultimately, however, the sports club was only able to look forward to the 273rd Bundesliga appearance by outside lane player Jonathan Schmid.

As a result, the 30-year-old is now French record player in the league together with Franck Ribéry.

As with almost all Freiburg players, there wasn't much to see from Schmid either.

Instead, the story from the first half was repeated: Leipzig took advantage of another mistake by the hosts.

This time Nicolas Höfler couldn't handle the ball properly in the center, again the strong Kampl intervened.

The ball landed at Sörloth via two fast stations, and it pushed in flat.

Kampl also started the 3-0 win with a pass to the Norwegian, who this time went to the back of the substitute Forsberg.

The Swede circled the ball in the bottom right into the net.

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