Overview
- Bayern beat SC Freiburg 3-1 on Sunday to reclaim first place on goal difference, with Dayot Upamecano, Serge Gnabry and Michael Olise scoring in a match played without several key starters.
- Coach Vincent Kompany collapsed in training earlier in the week and will be sidelined for weeks, according to sporting director Max Eberl, so assistant Aaron Danks and the coaching staff will lead the team for upcoming matches.
- Borussia Dortmund sit immediately behind Bayern after a hard-fought 1-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt that briefly pushed them to the top of the table.
- High-tension matches elsewhere included Hoffenheim’s 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen, a VAR-awarded penalty, a player sent off for removing his shirt, a referee forced off with a muscle injury, and Leverkusen’s Loïc Badé carried off on a stretcher after a collision.
- FC Augsburg reported racist insults and death threats sent to defender Juma Bah after a red card and said it has filed a criminal complaint, underscoring growing legal responses to online abuse as the schedule grows more congested.