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VfL Wolfsburg remains fully on course for the Champions League.
The Lower Saxony won the Friday evening game of the Bundesliga at Arminia Bielefeld well deserved 3-0 (1-0) and displaced Frankfurt Eintracht from third place, which played against leaders FC Bayern on Saturday, for at least one night.
The Arminia, who celebrated a respectable success with the 3: 3 in Munich last Monday, got stuck in the relegation place 16.
"We lost to a really good team, we knew that every mistake will be punished," said Bielefeld's Manuel Prietl at DAZN.
"The game will not break us, we will draw our conclusions, turn our heads up and on we go."
Renato Steffen (29./47.) And Maximilian Arnold (54.) scored for the clearly superior VfL, who did not concede a goal in the seventh competitive game in a row.
In this form the Wolves, who have been unbeaten in nine games, are a clear candidate for the premier class.
“We just had to put in a very clever and mature performance, and I think we managed to do that.
That's why we deserved to win.
We're going home satisfied, ”said Arnold.
"It's going pretty well at the moment."
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The Bielefeld team started with the Bayern game - and played with confidence, at least for the first half hour.
"The point did the team really good," said coach Uwe Neuhaus shortly before kick-off, but also warned of the wolves who "play similar football as Bayern".
Accordingly, VfL clearly dominated the game for a long time, coach Oliver Glasner trusted the same team of the previous six successful competitive games without conceding a goal.
Kevin Mbabu headed just past the goal (17th), Arnold, who is hoping to return to the German national team after a long time in the EM year, tried it for the first time from a distance in the 26th minute (26th).
The opening goal fell when the Wolfsburg got two high balls speed into the game structure.
The template from Yannick Gerhardt pushed Steffen to his fourth goal of the season.
Glasner clapped satisfied with the substitute players on the sideline.
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It became even more difficult for Bielefeld.
Captain Fabian Klos shouted vigorously: “Go on men, body tension!” Michel Vlap, who had scored in Munich, missed the chance to equalize almost immediately after the tour (31st), but Arminia only got one shot at that in the first half Wolfsburg Gate.
Well organized, VfL hardly allowed anything.
Ridle Baku's long-range shot caught Bielefeld's goalkeeper Stefan Ortega (45th).
After the break, Wolfsburg took advantage of the brief moment when the Bielefeld defense left striker Wout Weghorst criminally alone with an Arnold free kick.
Ortega fended off the Dutchman's weak shot at the feet of Steffen, who easily scored the 2-0.
At least Arnold's strong long-range shot for his 13th long-distance goal in the Bundesliga was the preliminary decision.
Neuhaus then switched to an offensive trio, but he looked served and stood almost motionless on the sidelines.
Arminia found it difficult to find their way back into the game at all.
Klos headed over the goal after a corner (77th).