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The Augsburg goal to 1: 2: Florian Niederlechner (right) grabs the ball in front of Mitchel Bakker
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Matthias Balk / dpa
In the Bundesliga, FC Augsburg had a bitter afternoon, in the 1: 4 (1: 2) against Bayer Leverkusen, Augsburg scored two own goals. Many goals were also scored in Freiburg's 3-2 (3-2) win in Stuttgart. Eintracht Frankfurt missed the 1-1 (1-0) win in Bielefeld, meanwhile, the first competitive win of new coach Oliver Glasner. Mainz (3-0 against Fürth) and Cologne (2-1 against Bochum) won.
By the third matchday, FC Augsburg was the only Bundesliga team to not have scored a goal of the season. For the game against Bayer Leverkusen, Augsburg seemed to have done a lot, possibly too much: In fact, they scored, but primarily in their own goal. In the fourth minute, Iago ran into a low cross, apparently irritated by goalkeeper Rafal Gikiewicz, the Augsburg left-back lifted the ball unhappy, but at the same time beautifully over his goalkeeper. The ball went into the goal. In addition to the Augsburg misfortune, a brisk entry by Leverkusen's Mitchel Bakker did not result in a penalty a little later (8th). Then Florian Niederlechner also hit his own goal: He headed a sharp cross in the air past Gikiewciz (14th).
The odd goals conceded were not exclusive to Augsburg on Saturday afternoon. After half an hour, Bakker, who had come to Leverkusen from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer, had technical problems accepting the ball. He then missed the ball with an attempted clearing attempt and hindered his goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky in such a way that the ball rolled through the goalkeeper's legs. Own goal scorer Niederlechner poked the ball into the right goal this time (30th). Augsburg did not succeed much more, however, the strong Patrik Schick made the decision for Leverkusen (75th), the substitute Florian Wirtz to the final score (81st).
After the cup at third division Mannheim and only one point from the first two games, Eintracht Frankfurt threatened a false start before the game in Bielefeld. Especially since Filip Kostic, one of the outstanding players of the past few years, refused to train in order to evidently force a move to Lazio Rome. The game began accordingly in Bielefeld, hardly ever there were goal scenes. Until the 22nd minute: Bielefeld did not get the ball on their own penalty area, Frankfurt's Erik Durm got the ball on the right of the penalty area and played deliberately into the back area; Summer entry Jens Petter Hauge pushed in.
In a largely low-chance game, Bielefeld's Robin Hack missed the greatest opportunity in the second half, hitting the post from an acute angle (66th).
Patrick Wimmer does it better in his first Bundesliga game: Substitute in the 81st minute, the 20-year-old scored from the edge of the penalty area into the left corner (86th) after strong preparatory work by Fabian Klos.
So Frankfurt remains under Glasner without a competitive game win.
In the sixth minute of stoppage time, Wimmer even missed the winning goal twice.
The most spectacular first half of the afternoon developed in Stuttgart: VfB was behind early here, Jeon Woo-Yeong's first Bundesliga double (3rd, 9th) put SC Freiburg on course.
A massive header from Lucas Höler from five meters seemed to be an early preliminary decision (28th).
Then the Stuttgart fought and played their way back into the game: central defender Konstantinos Mavropanos successfully completed an attack after a run into the opposing penalty area (45th), less than two minutes later Hamadi Al Ghaddioui headed the connection (45th + 1). But it was no longer enough for a Stuttgart final point, Freiburg brought the 3-2 over time.
1. FC Köln had to wait a long time until Louis Schaub used a cross from Florian Kainz against VfL Bochum (82nd). The hosts managed to get the ball into the opposing goal early on: But because Dejan Ljubicic got the ball in his arm, the hit didn't count (15th). For a long time only Anthony Modeste came close to scoring, the Frenchman failed twice at the Bochum goalpost (4th, 72nd). At the very end, Cologne's youngster Tim Lemperle (90th + 1) and Bochum's Simon Zoller (90th + 3) added their names to the list of goalscorers without letting the game tip in a new direction.
Greuther Fürth is still waiting for the first victory since returning to the Bundesliga.
At home against Mainz 05, the newcomer presented himself defensively too vulnerable.
For Mainz, who had less possession but significantly more chances, Anderson Lucoqui decided the game in a few minutes with a tunnel against Sascha Burchert (15th) and Ádám Szalai after a cross (18th).
In the second half, the Mainz team was only denied a hand penalty because Moussa Niakhaté had previously been sidelined.
The Mainz team was still able to celebrate a third goal, Kevin Stöger (90 + 1) made everything clear just before the final whistle.
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