Bayern Munich struck twice within the second half to earn a 2-0 win over Cologne and bounce again from two straight league losses, delaying Bayer Leverkusen the title for twenty-four hours at the very least. Xabi Alonso’s aspect are 13 factors forward and poised to wrap up their first championship with a win over Werder Bremen on Sunday.
Bayern’s solely hope of silverware this season rests with the Champions League they usually host Arsenal on Wednesday of their quarter-final second leg, after the 2-2 draw in London final Tuesday. They suffered a severe harm blow in opposition to Cologne, nonetheless, with the winger Kingsley Coman taken off within the fiftieth minute and dominated out for a number of weeks with an adductor muscle harm.
“The harm of Kingsley is extraordinarily bitter with him beginning a sport right now after a really very long time,” Thomas Tuchel, the Bayern coach, stated. “It regarded extraordinarily painful on TV and it definitely received’t be sufficient for Wednesday. In quarter-final you need to have the selection choices. Perhaps it’s good to play 120 minutes. It’s a giant blow for us.”
Bayern broke the impasse by Raphaël Guerreiro’s excellent curling shot within the sixty fifth minute from 20 metres. They nonetheless wanted an 89th-minute save from keeper Sven Ulreich to guard their lead earlier than Thomas Müller scored in stoppage time after a Cologne defensive error to seal the win.
With 5 league matches left, Bayern are second within the Bundesliga on 63 factors. Stuttgart stay degree on factors with Bayern after their 3-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt. RB Leipzig, 3-0 winners over Wolfsburg, are fourth on 56 factors, forward on aim distinction of Borussia Dortmund, who host Atlético Madrid of their Champions League quarter-final second leg on Tuesday, trailing 2-1.
Juventus’s hopes of wining the Italian Serie A ended after a 0-0 draw at their metropolis rivals, Torino. Juventus are third on 63 factors from 32 video games with six matches left to play, 19 behind the leaders, Internazionale, who host Cagliari on Sunday. Juve, Italian champions a file 36 instances, received the title 9 instances in a row from 2012-2020 however haven’t lifted the trophy since.
“It’s some extent … we settle for it,” Juventus’s coach, Massimiliano Allegri, stated. “There’s all the time the frustration of not having scored three, but when we hadn’t misplaced video games we might have been in a greater place. In the present day we take it, we’ve got to enhance issues.”
They remained winless on the street since late January, once they beat Lecce 3-0, and have gone 5 away video games in a row with out victory in a single home season for the primary time since 2010.
Bologna stay 4 factors behind Juventus in fourth place after they had been additionally held to a goalless draw at residence to Monza whereas Lecce pulled away from the relegation zone due to a 1-0 win over Empoli.
Aurélien Tchouaméni struck early within the second half to provide Actual Madrid a 1-0 win at Mallorca in La Liga as they rested key gamers earlier than their Champions League quarter-final second leg in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
Carlo Ancelotti made 5 modifications to the beginning line-up who had been held 3-3 by Metropolis within the first leg on Tuesday, leaving out Vinícius Júnior, Rodrygo and Toni Kroos.
Actual dominated however the closest they got here to breaking the impasse within the first half was a shot from Jude Bellingham which hit the bar. Tchouaméni scored the one aim within the forty eighth minute with a thunderous shot from exterior the penalty space.
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Barcelona stay eight factors behind Actual – who they face in El Clasico subsequent weekend – after João Félix netted a superb bicycle kick to earn them a 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Cádiz.
Xavi Hernández rested key gamers earlier than their Champions League quarter-final in opposition to Paris St Germain and Barcelona toiled for a lot of the match. Félix scored the winner within the thirty seventh minute with a shocking strike, pouncing on a rebound from a nook to acrobatically volley residence between two defenders.
Antoine Griezmann scored twice as Atlético Madrid overcame an early scare to beat Girona 3-1. It was one other setback for Girona, who led the desk for a number of weeks within the first half of the season however have ran out of steam lately, dropping 5 consecutive matches away from residence.
Artem Dovbyk netted his seventeenth aim of the season with a tap-in from a counterattack to provide Girona the lead within the fourth minute. However Atlético took management of the match, dominated possession and equalised with Griezmann from the penalty spot, after a handball by Miguel Gutiérrez.
Six minutes into stoppage time earlier than the break, Álvaro Morata crossed to Ángel Correa who nodded a towering header into the far nook to provide Atlético the lead. The hosts doubled their benefit 5 minutes into the second half when Jhon Solís sliced a clearance and Griezmann pounced on the unfastened ball contained in the six-yard-box to unleash an unstoppable strike that went in off the crossbar.
