European football: Bayern Munich must wait but Sané and Dier bring title close | European club football

Bayern Munich eased previous Mainz 3-0 however needed to put title celebrations on ice after Bayer Leverkusen matched their win to remain eight factors behind with three matches left.

The Bavarian membership, prime on 75 factors forward of Leverkusen in second with 67, can now safe a thirty fourth German league title with a win at RB Leipzig subsequent week. However Harry Kane will miss subsequent week’s sport after choosing up his fifth reserving and a suspension.

Leroy Sané fired in after good early work from Serge Gnabry to offer Bayern a Twenty eighth-minute lead. Bayern doubled it with Michael Olise’s solo effort and very good end from a decent angle 5 minutes earlier than the break. Sané twice hit the woodwork within the second half earlier than Eric Dier headed house their third objective within the 84th.

Thomas Müller got here on late within the second half to make his five hundredth league look for the membership. The 35-year-old, who’s leaving on the finish of the season after 25 years with Bayern, is just the fourth participant to succeed in that mark within the Bundesliga, that includes for only one membership.

“It’s not best however we gained,” stated Bayern’s coach, Vincent Kompany, of Kane’s yellow card. “However it isn’t like a ultimate. We are going to play 34 video games this season and I believe [injured] guys like Jamal [Musiala]Alphonso [Davies]Dayot Upamecano and [Hiroki] Ito additionally need to have fun the title. Each title you must have fun it prefer it’s your first so I don’t assume it’ll make a lot of a distinction for Harry. It doesn’t take away a single per cent of his contribution this season.”

With 24 league objectives this time period, the 31-year-old England captain seems to be set to turn into the primary participant to be topped the league’s prime scorer in every of his first two Bundesliga seasons. “Loopy, loopy choice,” stated Kane of his reserving. “It’s type of my story that I’ll miss the Leipzig sport. However no worries, I’ll have fun greater than anybody else.”

Bayer Leverkusen beat Augsburg 2-0. Patrik Schick struck within the thirteenth minute with Leverkusen’s first actual likelihood, drilling in from the sting of the field for his nineteenth league objective of the season.

Leverkusen put the ball within the web as soon as extra somewhat later however Nathan Tella’s header on the far submit was dominated offside. They made amends in first-half stoppage time when Emiliano Buendía curled a shot previous Finna Dahmen to make it 2-0 and guarantee three factors for the hosts.

Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equaliser however nonetheless managed to attain a last-gasp winner by Waldemar Anton for a 3-2 win at Hoffenheim that boosted their probabilities of making subsequent season’s Champions League with three league video games left.

Anton slotted into an empty objective with seconds left to play for the winner, lifting Dortmund to sixth place on 48 factors with their fourth win within the final 5 league video games. Dortmund stay three factors off fourth place – the final spot to supply computerized Champions League qualification – after Freiburg gained 1-0 at Wolfsburg.

Serhou Guirassy and Julian Brandt scored Dortmund’s first two objectives, the previous additionally having a penalty saved at 1-0. Adam Hlozek scored Hoffenheim’s first equaliser after which Pavel Kaderabek equalised in stoppage time. However Dortmund saved up the strain earlier than carving out the winner from Germany worldwide Anton.

RB Leipzig misplaced 4-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt within the late sport and are just one level higher off than Dortmund. The outcome cemented Frankfurt’s maintain on third place.

In France, the Egyptian defender Mohamed Abdelmonem suffered a cruciate ligament harm in his proper knee throughout Good’s 3-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain on Friday. “His harm will stay the darkish cloud hanging over Good’s victory in Paris over PSG. It was within the 63rd minute of the match on the Parc des Princes when Mohamed Abdelmonem collapsed in Good’s penalty space,” Good stated in assertion.

“The primary photographs led us to worry that it was a critical harm. The varied medical examinations carried out instantly after the match confirmed … Mohamed has suffered a cruciate ligament rupture. OGC Good dedicates the three factors to him and can do all the things doable to help him throughout his months of restoration in order that he can return to the pitch even stronger.”

The victory lifted Good to fourth within the desk with 54 factors from 31 video games and ended the champions’ probabilities of an unbeaten Ligue 1 season.

In Saturday’s video games, Lyon saved in contact with the Champions League qualification locations with a 4-1 win over Rennes, with Alexandre Lacazette, Corentin Tolisso, Malick Fofana and Georges Mikautadze all on the scoresheet. Second-placed Monaco had been held to a 1-1 draw at lowly Le Havre.

Strasbourg usually are not out of the working both after they moved as much as sixth with a 3-1 win over Saint-Étienne, who stay within the relegation zone.