Bundesliga round-up: Union stay within touching distance of the top
Union Berlin 3-0 Stuttgart
Sheraldo Becker set Union Berlin on their way to a hard-fought 3-0 victory over Stuttgart which closed the gap to the Bundesliga leaders to just two points, as Stuttgart’s winless league on the road reached 23 games.
Frieburg 1-1 Hertha Berlin
Vincenzo Grifo moved himself to within two goals of Niclas Füllkrug at the summit of the Bundesliga scoring charts, but his opener would not prove to be decisive, as Jessic Ngankam plundered a late leveller to damage their hosts’ top-four prospects.
RB Leipzig 0-3 Mainz
FSV Mainz 05 continued their remarkable surge up the Bundesliga table with an emphatic 3-0 victory against RB Leipzig at Red Bull Arena, a seventh match unbeaten which takes them within striking distance of the top six places.
Schalke 0-3 Bayer Leverkusen
Schalke lost a Bundesliga game for the first time since January, as Bayer Leverkusen kept up their pursuit of the European places with a 3-0 victory, closing the gap to the top-six to just one point after an eight successive unbeaten H2H meeting.
Wolfsburg 2-2 Augsburg
Felix Nmecha’s last-minute header helped Wolfsburg recover from a disastrous first half to draw 2-2 against Augsburg as Fuggerstädter’s winless run on the road extended to nine matches.
