Jupp status, incomplete

ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI and Jupp Heynckes both missed out on records as runaway Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich were held to a frustrating goalless draw at home by Hertha Berlin yesterday.

It was the first time Bayern have failed to score at home in the Bundesliga since May 2015.

“We can live with the point, I cannot blame my team at all,” said Heynckes. “We had a good attitude.

“We were very involved and, especially in the first half, created some good chances, but it was hard against a team who defended cleverly.

“We wasted a lot of chances, which is unusual, but you have days like these.”

It was Bayern’s first league draw since October – a 2-2 against Hertha in Berlin – which also followed a Champions League game, their 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain which cost Carlo Ancelotti his job as head coach.

Despite nearly four times as many chances – 19 shots on goal to Hertha’s five – Bayern could not break through.

Lewandowski, making his 250th Bundesliga appearance, missed the out-right record of scoring in 12 consecutive home league games.

He now shares the league record of 11 with Bayern legends Gerd Muller and current head coach Heynckes.

The 72-year-old Heynckes also missed the chance to become the first Bayern coach to claim 15 straight wins in all competitions.

Third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt missed the chance to go second with a 1-0 defeat at resurgent VfB Stuttgart.

Werder Bremen boosted their survival hopes as a dramatic own goal sealed their 1-0 home win against arch rivals Hamburg.

Earlier, ex-Bayern striker Nils Petersen celebrated extending his contract until June 2019 with a second-half penalty as Freiburg earned a point in a 1-1 draw at Hoffenheim.

Borussia Moenchengladbach scored their first goal in five games when World Cup winner Christoph Kramer netted with a second-half volley in their 1-0 win at Hanover.

The result breaks Gladbach’s run of four straight defeats to leave them seventh. – AFP