Bundesliga, fifteenth matchday – Sunday: FC Bayern are already autumn champions, Mainz and St. Pauli finish goalless | EUROtoday

1. FC Heidenheim – FC Bayern Munich 0:4 (0:2)

FC Bayern confidently secured the autumn championship within the Bundesliga for the twenty eighth time and forward of schedule. The Munich staff deservedly received 4-0 on the finish of the 12 months in opposition to relegation-threatened 1. FC Heidenheim and, due to their twenty second win of the season, can not be overtaken till the top of the primary collection. Heading into the brand new 12 months and the final two video games of the primary half of the season in January, coach Vincent Kompany’s nationally undefeated staff is 9 factors forward of Borussia Dortmund.

Bayern needed to do with out quite a few stars. The Munich staff nonetheless confirmed the response Kompany had hoped for to the poor 2-2 draw Mainz within the earlier week. Josip Stanisic (fifteenth minute), Michael Olise (thirty second), Luis Díaz (86th) and Harry Kane (ninetieth + 2) scored for Munich in entrance of 15,000 folks within the Heidenheim Stadium. Heidenheim suffered its tenth defeat of the present season.

The Munich file champions carried out convincingly, particularly earlier than the break, however initially with out creating any nice possibilities. At instances, nevertheless, Bayern had greater than 80 p.c possession of the ball. Stanisic lastly rewarded Bayern for his or her superiority by taking the lead. After a nook from Olise, Heidenheim keeper Diant Ramaj first saved a header from Jonathan Tah, then Stanisic headed it 1-0. Even a very good quarter of an hour later, Ramaj was unable to parry the ball when Olise made it 2-0. In the second half, Heidenheim was higher within the recreation, however did not rating any objectives. Shortly earlier than the top of the sport, Díaz and Kane scored once more for the friends.

1. FSV Mainz 05 – FC St. Pauli 0:0

FSV Mainz 05 has in opposition to FC St. Pauli missed the urgently wanted victory within the relegation battle of the Bundesliga. Three days after efficiently reaching the spherical of 16 of the Conference League, the Mainz staff didn’t handle the house win that they had hoped for in entrance of 33,000 spectators and are going into the quick winter break as backside of the desk, 4 factors behind St. Pauli.

The friends from Hamburg recorded 4 corners a very good eight minutes after the beginning of the sport, however none of them resulted in any possibilities to attain. The Mainz followers did not see any actual possibilities for his or her staff to attain in the whole first half. This was as a substitute for St. Pauli when Jackson Irvine shot on the Mainz aim, however 05 goalkeeper Daniel Batz saved the ball.

After the break, Mainz elevated the strain and had their first scoring alternatives by means of Dominik Kohr (forty eighth) and Silvan Widmer (fifty fifth). However, each missed the aim, so the visiting goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj didn’t need to intervene. Until the top of standard time, a direct shot from Widmer (67th), which went over the aim, was the one different notable motion. It wasn’t till harm time that Vasilj saved a shot from Armindo Sieb – and thus secured the friends one level. In holding with the general low degree, the sport remained goalless till the top.

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