Finnbogason helps Augsburg hold Bayern; Union post win
- 19 Oct 2019
Augsburg’s Alfred Finnbogason scored a stoppage-time goal to snatch a 2-2 draw against a wasteful Bayern Munich on Saturday and deny them the top spot in the Bundesliga.
The hosts shocked Bayern with a goal after 28 seconds with Marco Richter volleying in from a Rani Khedira header.
Bayern forward Robert Lewandowski brought them level in the 14th minute, heading in a perfect Serge Gnabry cross for his 12th league goal. He has now scored in each of their eight league games to equal the record set by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang four years ago.
Gnabry, who also hit the post late in the first half, curled a superb left-footed low shot past Augsburg keeper Tomas Koubek in the 49th to give Bayern the lead.
Koubek repeatedly denied Kingsley Coman and Lewandowski before Finnbogason snatched the late equaliser. Bayern remain in third place on 15 points. Union Berlin ended a run of four defeats by beating Freiburg 2-0 at home, Leipzig were held 1-1 at unbeaten Wolfsburg, Hertha Berlin came back to draw 1-1 at Werder Bremen and Fortuna Dusseldorf defeated 10-man Mainz 1-0.
Earlier, Goncalo Paciencia scored twice in the first half as Eintracht Frankfurt beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 on Friday to deny the visitors the chance to move top of the Bundesliga.
The Portuguese forward fired Frankfurt ahead inside five minutes as he latched on to a Danny Da Costa pass and held off two defenders to stroke the ball under Lukas Hradecky.
Paciencia won a penalty on the quarter-hour when his shot was blocked by the hands of a sliding Aleksandar Dragovic, rolling home the spot-kick to double the lead for the hosts.
Eintracht goalkeeper Frederik Ronnow, deputising for the injured Kevin Trapp, kept Leverkusen at bay with a string of stops from Karim Bellarabi, Lucas Alario and Kai Havertz.
Leverkusen were awarded a penalty midway through the second half for an apparent handball by Djibril Sow but the decision was correctly overturned following a VAR review.
Dutch striker Bas Dost wrapped up the victory for Frankfurt 10 minutes from time as he brushed off Dragovic to net his third league goal of the season.
Agencies
German League results on Saturday:
RB Leipzig 1 (Werner 54) VfL Wolfsburg 1 (Weghorst 82)
Werder Bremen 1 (Sagent 7) Hertha Berlin 1 (Lukebakio 70)
Augsburg 2 (Richter 1, Finnbogason 90+1) Bayern Munich 2 (Lewandowski 14, Gnabry 49)
Union Berlin 2 (Buelter 1, Ingvartsen 84) Freiburg 0
