BERLIN (AP) — Deniz Undav celebrates his birthday Return to the German national team Stuttgart’s 5-2 win over Augsburg on Sunday marked his sixth straight Bundesliga game.
This time Unduff scored twice, taking his season tally to 18 and giving Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann a timely, if needed, reminder of his former talent. world cup Warm-up match between Switzerland and Ghana.
The victory moves Stuttgart into third place with seven matches remaining, putting them in a good position to finish in the top four and qualify for the Champions League.
Undav scored the first goal in the 12th minute. Nicolas Nalty set up Thiago Thomas in the 29th minute and scored himself two minutes earlier to give Stuttgart a 3-0 lead.
Fabian Rieder pulled one back for Augsburg after the break, but Unduff responded a minute later to reassert Augsburg’s advantage.
Anton Carde scored in the 71st minute for Augsburg, and in the 83rd minute Undav set up Elmedin Demirovic to score with a tap-in against his former club.
Stuttgart are three points behind Leipzig and Hoffenheim, with Bayer Leverkusen in sixth place, four points behind.
Where is Götze?
Eintracht Frankfurt lost World Cup hero Mario Götze 2-1 to local rivals Mainz in the derby on Sunday.
Paul Nebel scored both goals for Mainz, who grabbed the winning goal in the 89th minute, sparking wild celebrations and handing Frankfurt their second defeat under new coach Alberto Riera.
After Nebel took the lead in the 6th minute, Frankfurt’s Nathaniel Braun responded in the 20th minute when Nelson Viper’s header was saved by Frankfurt keeper Michael Zetterer and the rebound was tapped into the goal by Nebel.
Götze’s absence put Riera in doubt before kick-off. With Arthur Teate, Can Uzun, Younes Ebounotalib and Ansgar Knaf all recovering from injury, the Spanish manager asked which of Götze’s players should join the squad in place of the former Germany international star.
“Name one player,” Riera challenged a pregame interviewer on broadcaster DAZN. “If we can get 21 players, we’ll include him,” he said. “Mario also had some physical problems that week and wasn’t 100% all the time, and we had to make a decision about who was best on the bench.”
Götze, who scored Germany’s winning goal at the 2014 World Cup, has made limited appearances for Frankfurt this season, appearing in 18 of 27 league matches and only making one full appearance in the Bundesliga. He has not featured in any of Frankfurt’s last two games and appears to have fallen somewhat in position under Riera compared to his former manager Dino Topmeler. was fired in January.
Mainz’s victory puts them six points ahead of relegation-placed St. Pauli.
Familiar faces interrupt St. Pauli
Igor Matanovic, back at St. Pauli, scored twice as Freiburg won 2-1, leaving his struggling hometown club outside of the relegation play-offs.
Danel Sinani opened the scoring, but St. Pauli were unable to add to their lead, and Matanovic equalized in the 65th minute, before scoring the winner with a rebound in the 78th minute. The Croatian forward refused to celebrate out of respect for his former club.
“I got to play here for 13 years. I was here when I was little, in the stands, then I was a ball boy. It was really fun to play here today,” Matanovic said. “When I went onto the field before everything started, the fans welcomed me really warmly and I’m very grateful. Yes, but today I have the Freiburg emblem on my chest and I have to give everything for the club and that’s what I did today.”
St. Pauli’s players wore jerseys supporting the anti-fascist group Nazi Bock, which fights intolerance and right-wing ideology. This slogan roughly translates to “I don’t care about the Nazis.”
St. Pauli’s gesture is the result of the league’s slogan ‘ together! Please stop hating. let’s be a team ” will be implemented in all games as part of our anti-discrimination campaign.
Sunday too, Cologne sack coach Lukas Kwasniok Borussia after seven games without a win Dortmund part ways with sporting director Sebastian Kehl After reaching what the club called an “amicable” decision.
bayern munich They lead the Bundesliga by 9 points. And he is approaching his 13th German championship in 14 years.
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