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Yahoo
10-05-2025
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Bundesliga reveal April's Player of the Month nominees
Six players are in the running for April's Bundesliga Player of the Month. Michael Olise heads up the nominations after playing a starring role in helping Bayern Munich clinch their latest, record-extending Meisterschale this month. Advertisement The France international is set to face competition from Joshua Kimmich as well as Dortmund's Waldemar Anton, Mitchell Weiser of Werder Bremen, Eintracht's Robin Koch and Ritsu Doan at Freiburg. Anton will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of awards for the Black and Yellow, who saw Serhou Guirassy and Nico Schlotterbeck crowned the two most recent winners. The winner will be decided by public vote later this month. 📸 RONNY HARTMANN - AFP or licensors
Arab News
12-04-2025
- Sport
- Arab News
Bayern fail to make most of Leverkusen slip with Dortmund draw
LEVERKUSEN, Germany: Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich were held to a 2-2 home draw with Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, failing to take advantage of Bayer Leverkusen's slip-up earlier in the day. After defending champions Leverkusen were held to a 0-0 draw at home to Union Berlin, Bayern knew a win would have moved them eight points clear with five games to play. Dortmund took the lead through Maximilian Beier in the 48th minute but Bayern hit back with two goals in four minutes, before Waldemar Anton equalized for the visitors with 15 minutes remaining. 'We've moved a step closer to the championship and we've shown we can create plenty of opportunities,' said Bayern veteran Thomas Mueller, who will leave the club after 25 years at the end of the season. 'That should help us in the Champions League on Wednesday,' Mueller added of next week's Champions League quarter-final second leg at Inter Milan, with Bayern facing a 2-1 first-leg deficit, '(We need) to be more clinical,' said Harry Kane. 'We'll have opportunities, it's about taking them in the right moments.' Usually the standout fixture on the German football calendar, the buzz around the match was comparatively muted. The visitors, who trail Barcelona 4-0 in their Champions League quarter-final, arrived in Munich sitting nine spots and 27 points behind in the table. Bayern, enduring an injury crisis, were camped out near Dortmund's box for almost the entire first half. Visiting goalkeeper Gregor Kobel needed to snuff out big chances for Kane and Michael Olize. Seemingly on the ropes at half-time, Dortmund opened the scoring three minutes into the second period, Beier heading between Bayern goalkeeper Jonas Urbig's legs to finish off a counter-attack. With Dortmund in the ascendancy and probing for a second, Kompany brought on Serge Gnabry and the move worked a treat. The former Arsenal winger created the equalizer for former Dortmund midfielder Raphael Guerreiro on 65 minutes and then scored a goal of his own four minutes later, slaloming through the visiting defense before hammering home. Dortmund hit back to level again when Anton knocked in a rebound from a Serhou Guirassy shot. Bayern remain six points ahead of Leverkusen and closing in on regaining the title. Nursing an ongoing Achilles injury, Bayern center-back Kim Min-jae was substituted in the second half, leaving the Bavarians with just one fit central defender. Despite welcoming back star midfielder Florian Wirtz from a foot injury, Xabi Alonso's Leverkusen lacked fluency in attack, carving out few clear-cut opportunities against Union Berlin. Wirtz came on after 57 minutes and despite giving his side an initial boost, was unable to break down Union's defense. Granit Xhaka had a free-kick from the edge of the box in stoppage time but blasted his shot well over the bar. 'We're dropping too many points at home,' Leverkusen captain Hradecky said. 'Mathematically there's a small chance (of defending the title), but the probability has decreased.' The draw continues a poor April for last season's unbeaten domestic double winners, who were eliminated from the German Cup semifinals by third-division Arminia Bielefeld. The draw lifted Union to 34 points, 12 clear of the relegation play-off spot. The Berliners have taken 11 points from an unbeaten five-game run against Leverkusen, Bayern, Eintracht Frankfurt, Freiburg and Wolfsburg. Borussia Moenchengladbach's hopes of returning to the Champions League took a hit with a 2-1 home loss to Freiburg. Freiburg snatched all three points when Johan Manzambi scored a 90th-minute header, allowing the visitors to leapfrog their opponents into sixth. Augsburg continued their strong 2025 with a 2-1 win at lowly Bochum, climbing past Dortmund into eighth. Augsburg have only lost one of their past 13 games. Elsewhere, Hoffenheim took a step toward beating the drop with a 2-0 home win over Champions League hopefuls Mainz, with Andrej Kramaric scoring a brace. St. Pauli also boosted their hopes of top-division football next season with a 2-1 win over fellow promoted side Holstein Kiel.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
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BVB's Waldemar Anton played through injury in January, Sky reports
Waldemar Anton has revealed that he played through the pain barrier at the tail end of January, Sky Sports Germany reports. Life at Borussia Dortmund has been far from plain sailing for Anton, who signed from VfB Stuttgart for a fee of €22.5 million euros last summer. Former head coach Nuri Sahin saw the 28-year-old as a key figurehead in the heart of his defence until thigh problems and flu ruled the Uzbek-born German out of action for periods of the season. What was not known however, is that Anton battled through the 2-1 defeat to Bologna in the UEFA Champions League and the 2-2 draw against Werder Bremen with a torn muscle fiber. The centre-half played through the pain barrier on both occasions so as to not let the club or teammates down. Anton scored an unfortunate own-goal against his former employers Stuttgart in February. The German international has since been out-of-favour under new boss Niko Kovac. Perhaps a return to the starting lineup awaits in the not too distant future given his duel winning ratio of 66.5% leads the way at BVB, and ranks only second to Niklas Sule (94.19%) in pass accuracy with 93.65%.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
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Dortmund coach Kovac debuts with defeat, Leverkusen held at Wolfsburg
Coach Niko Kovac made his debut for Borussia Dortmund with a 2-1 defeat at home against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday in the Bundesliga. Stuttgart will be thankful to their former defender Waldemar Anton after he scored an own goal to give them the opener in the 50th minute. Jeff Chabot in the 62nd added a second for the guests with his maiden Bundesliga goal. Julian Brandt pulled one back for Dortmund in the 81st but their hopes of grabbing at least a point were dashed when Julian Ryerson saw a second yellow and was sent off in the 89th. Dortmund have won only one of their six games so far this year in a run that includes four defeats. They are 11th in the standings and now six points from Stuttgart, who currently occupy the last spot for Champions League qualification. Champions Bayer Leverkusen, meanwhile, were held to a goalless draw at VfL Wolfsburg and will end the matchday eight points behind leaders Bayern Munich Union Berlin are now 10 points from the drop zone after thrashing Hoffenheim 4-0. Benedict Hollerbach scored a brace, Marin Ljubicic was on target on his Bundesliga debut and Andrej Ilić also added one to his name. Elsewhere, Mainz and Augsburg played out a goalless draw and Freiburg prevailed 1-0 against Heidenheim. Bayern defeated Werder Bremen 3-0 on Friday.
