Overview

• Borussia Mönchengladbach enter Sunday bottom of the table on a 12‑game winless run; failure to beat Freiburg would set a club‑worst 13 straight Bundesliga matches without a victory.
• Gladbach sacked coach Gerardo Seoane and sporting director Roland Virkus and left Eugen Polanski in interim charge, with the club prioritizing a new sporting director during the international break.
• Bayern won 3–0 at Eintracht Frankfurt to stay perfect across competitions, with Díaz scoring twice and drawing praise from Kompany after a start that includes a Bundesliga‑record 25 goals through six matchdays.
• RB Leipzig’s 1–1 draw in Dortmund extended their unbeaten streak to five league games, as Christoph Baumgartner struck from a rehearsed set piece credited to assistant Jan Zimmermann and Marcel Schäfer lauded coach Ole Werner’s work.
• Dortmund coach Niko Kovac called the team’s first segment of the season satisfactory after the draw, while Werder Bremen took a derby lift into the break with a 1–0 home win over St. Pauli under Horst Steffen.