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FC Bayern Munich was unable to repeat the success of the previous matchday in the Bundesliga.

At SC Freiburg there was only a 2:2 (1:1) despite two goals from Mathys Tel (34th minute) and Jamal Musiala (75th).

Christian Günter had previously taken the lead for the hosts (12th), Lucas Höler brought the late equalizer (87th).

In the table, Bayern are seven points behind Bayer Leverkusen, but the league leaders still play at 1. FC Köln on Sunday (3:30 p.m., stream: Dazn).

Freiburg remains without a win for the sixth game in a row and is currently ninth, but can still be overtaken.

As has often been the case in recent weeks, it was Bayern who initially fell behind.

Manuel Neuer showed a world-class reflex on a header from Roland Sallai, and Sallai's follow-up shot with an overhead kick hit the crossbar.

Bayern didn't get the rebound cleared and the ball fell at the feet of Günter on the edge of the penalty area, who hit the right corner with a full-range shot (12').

Günter could have added more, but lost a duel with Neuer (16th).

Nevertheless, Freiburg remained better because Bayern lost the ball a lot sloppily.

In one of these scenes, the SC countered with Vincenzo Grifo, who shot just wide to the right (22').

Tel's artificial shot brings Bayern back

Only gradually did the FCB stabilize and the precision in the passing game returned.

Freiburg now had to defend deep and was sometimes forced into their own penalty area.

After a corner, it was Tel who initially left Grifo standing when he received the ball and then circled the ball into the far corner from a half-left position (34').

For the 18-year-old Tel, the player with the most substitutions (19) in this Bundesliga season, it was the first starting eleven appearance in 2023/2024.

After the half-time break there was one chance each, but both Harry Kane (47th) and Maximilian Eggestein (49th) missed.

The Munich team then controlled the game, but it wasn't until the 71st minute that the next real big chance came for Musiala, who was denied by Noah Atubolu after a pass from Thomas Müller.

It wasn't the last chance for Musiala: the 21-year-old danced his way through three Freiburg players in a tight space and finished from close range but at an acute angle.

The ball hit the far corner with a spin (75').

But that wasn't the winning goal, as Freiburg's long throw-in fell into FC Bayern's penalty area in the final phase.

There Kiliann Sildillia set up Höler, who scored with a remarkable volley to make it 2-2 (87').

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