Leipzig frustrate Bayern

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said his team were lucky not to lose after RB Leipzig held them to a 1-1 draw to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday.

In the second of two top-of-thetable clashes on Saturday, Leipzig survived a first half onslaught and equalised through an Emil Forsberg penalty to frustrate Bayern and fuel hopes of a threehorse title race in the German league.

“We made too many mistakes in the second half. It could easily have been a defeat,” Neuer told Sky.

The draw leaves Bayern in third, while Leipzig now sit a point above Borussia Dortmund, who moved up to second with a thumping 4-0 win over top four rivals Bayer Leverkusen.

“It is too early to call us title candidates, but it is nice to be top of the table,” Forsberg told Sky.

It took Lewandowski just three minutes to grab the opener as Bayern dominated the first half in Leipzig.

Yet despite having had three times as much possession and twice as many shots, Bayern went in at half time with the scores level after Forsberg’s penalty on the stroke of half time.

Bayern, who had themselves had a penalty retracted by VAR ten minutes earlier, were left stunned and allowed Leipzig back into the game after the break.

Dortmund were under pressure after a shock defeat to minnows Union Berlin in their last game, but goals from Paco Alcacer, Marco Reus and Raphael Guerreiro secured a much-needed three points for Lucien Favre’s side.

“Paco is a fantastic player, he is enormously important for us,” said Dortmund forward Julian Brandt.

Elsewhere, a first-half winner from Alassane Plea saw Borussia Moenchengladbach run out 1-0 winners against Cologne in the Rhine derby.

Eintracht Frankfurt suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to strugglers Augsburg.

In Berlin, Werder Bremen did what Dortmund had failed to do two weeks earlier by beating Union 2-1.

Union’s capital city neighbours Hertha Berlin sit bottom of the table with just one point after a dramatic 2-1 defeat to Mainz.