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Bundesliga Roundup: Borussia Dortmund win to keep pace with other top teams

By Austin Weldon

AUGSBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 18: (BILD ZEITUNG OUT) goalkeeper Roman Buerki of Borussia Dortmund, Giovanni Reyna of Borussia Dortmund, Erling Braut Haaland of Borussia Dortmund and Manuel Akanji of Borussia Dortmund laughs during the Bundesliga match between FC Augsburg and Borussia Dortmund at WWK-Arena on January 18, 2020 in Augsburg, Germany. (Photo by TF-Images/Getty Images)
AUGSBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 18: (BILD ZEITUNG OUT) goalkeeper Roman Buerki of Borussia Dortmund, Giovanni Reyna of Borussia Dortmund, Erling Braut Haaland of Borussia Dortmund and Manuel Akanji of Borussia Dortmund laughs during the Bundesliga match between FC Augsburg and Borussia Dortmund at WWK-Arena on January 18, 2020 in Augsburg, Germany. (Photo by TF-Images/Getty Images) /
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The Bundesliga wrapped up their first weekend back from the winter break, with Dortmund sealing a massive comeback win against Augsburg.

Borussia Dortmund had a tougher than required victory over Augsburg on Saturday after falling behind 3-1 in the second half. Augsburg scored the first two goals of the game through Florian Niederlechner and Marco Richter. Julian Brandt answered back quickly after the second goal scoring less than three minutes later. Once again though, Dortmund found a way to concede a third goal and Augsburg had seemingly put the game out of reach. Enter Haaland, who would go on to score a second half hat-trick in 23 minutes leading Dortmund to victory. Jadon Sancho also found the back of the net, picking up right where he left off before the break.

The Friday game saw Schalke dispatch of Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0 through goals by Suat Serdar and new signing Michael Gregoritsch. That loss brings Gladbach within Dortmund’s reach, now only ahead of them by two points. Dortmund will need to continue piling up points if they’re going to catch the three teams ahead of them.

Koln upset Wolfsburg in a 3-1 win, Jhon Cordoba scored twice to put Koln up 2-0 before half time. Jonas Hector made it 3-0 before Renato Steffan scored Wolfsburg’s only goal.

Werder Bremen squeaked out a 1-0 victory over Fortuna Dusseldorf thanks to an own goal by Florian Kastenmeier. Bremen were lucky to win this one with Dusseldorf out shooting and out chancing them. Freiburg beat Mainz 05 2-1 on Saturday to keep their impressive season going. Currently in 7th place they have had a very successful season thus far. Chang-Hoon Kwon and Nils Peterson were the goal scorers for Freiburg before Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a later one for Mainz.

18 January 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Sinsheim: Football: Bundesliga, 18th matchday, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim – Eintracht Frankfurt, PreZero-Arena. Frankfurt’s goal scorer Bas Dost cheers for the goal of 0:1. (Photo by Uwe Anspach/picture alliance via Getty Images)
18 January 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Sinsheim: Football: Bundesliga, 18th matchday, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim – Eintracht Frankfurt, PreZero-Arena. Frankfurt’s goal scorer Bas Dost cheers for the goal of 0:1. (Photo by Uwe Anspach/picture alliance via Getty Images) /

Eintracht Frankfurt was victorious over Hoffenheim, edging them out in a 2-1 game. Bas Dost opened the scoring for Frankfurt before Konstantinos Stafylidis equalized for Hoffenheim. Timothy Chandler scored the winning goal for Frankfurt securing the three points.

RB Leipzig faced Union Berlin in the late game and actually fell behind to start with Marius Bulter scoring 10 minutes in for Berlin. It wasn’t meant to be though, Timo Werner and Marcel Sabitzer scored twice in 6 minutes to regain control of the game. Timo Wener scored the third goal to seal the win for Leipzig keeping them top of the Bundesliga.

BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 19: Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring the second goal during the Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC and FC Bayern Muenchen at Olympiastadion on January 19, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Bongarts/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 19: Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring the second goal during the Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC and FC Bayern Muenchen at Olympiastadion on January 19, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Bongarts/Getty Images) /

Bayern Munich thrashed Hertha Berlin 4-0 in this one. After a quiet first half, Bayern took control in the second half scoring all four of their goals. Thomas Muller, Robert Lewandowski, Thiago Alcantara and Ivan Perisic were the scorers for Bayern.

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Bayer Leverkusen against Paderborn was the final game of the weekend and it was Peter Bosz’ side who came out on top. Kevin Volland scored a quick brace to put Leverkusen up 2-0 early and from them on it was all Leverkusen. Julian Baumgartlinger would add a third before half time. Dennis Srbeny clawed one back for Padeborn but Kai Havertz killed off any notion of a comeback in the 75th minute.

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