{"id":5662,"date":"2026-04-18T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:39:09","slug":"bayern-munich-is-on-the-verge-of-clinching-the-bundesliga-title-after-another-dortmund-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5662\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich is on the verge of clinching the Bundesliga title after another Dortmund defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Not that Bayern Munich needed any help, but the Bavarian powerhouse can clinch another Bundesliga title this weekend after Hoffenheim’s 2-1 win over second-place Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n

Hoffenheim forward Andrej Kramari\u0107 scored two penalties on Saturday \u2013 the second one in stoppage time \u2013 to deal Dortmund a second consecutive defeat that opens the way for Bayern to seal the title at home against Stuttgart on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Bayern, which has five games remaining compared to Dortmund\u2019s four, leads by 12 points and needs just one more point to be sure of finishing top.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would certainly round off this week nicely,\u201d Bayern’s board member for sport Max Eberl said after Bayern\u2019s Champions League quarterfinal win<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It would be Bayern’s 13th German championship in 14 years, and the first step in a potential treble of trophies this season. <\/p>\n

Bayern faces Bayer Leverkusen away in the German Cup semifinals on Wednesday, before it can turn attention to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semifinals.<\/p>\n

Eta loses first game in charge<\/p>\n

Marie-Louise Eta became the first female coach to take charge of a Bundesliga game<\/a>, but her Union Berlin team failed to live up to the occasion as it lost 2-1 to Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n

Eta was appointed interim manager this week and now has four more games to ensure Union stays in the top division before she takes over Union\u2019s women\u2019s team<\/a> for next season.<\/p>\n

Patrick Wimmer and D\u017eenan Pej\u010dinovi\u0107 scored early in each half for visiting Wolfsburg to end its 12-game run without a win and revive its hopes of escaping relegation. Wolfsburg remains second to last but it\u2019s just two points behind St. Pauli in the relegation playoff place with four rounds remaining.<\/p>\n

Union ultimately paid the price for a lack of efficiency after creating the better chances and finishing strongly. Oliver Burke\u2019s goal in the 85th minute was too late for the K\u00f6penick-based team, which was also frustrated by late saves from Wolfsburg’s Kamil Grabara. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you shoot 26 times at goal or try to shoot at goal then you’re doing a lot right, and from that point of view the performance was in order today,\u201d Union right back Christopher Trimmel said. \u201cStill, we need to improve on some aspects.\u201d <\/p>\n

Union, which has only won two games in 2026, fired Steffan Baumgart after last weekend\u2019s loss at Heidenheim and finds itself just six points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Leipzig takes big step toward Champions League<\/p>\n

Ivorian teenager Yan Diomande scored again as Leipzig moved closer to qualification for Europe’s premier competition with a 3-1 win at seventh-place Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Diomande scored Leipzig’s winner in a 1-0 success against Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach last weekend and proved decisive again with the opener in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

Antonio Nusa and Conrad Harder also scored as Leipzig moved third, three points above Stuttgart and five points above fifth place Hoffenheim. <\/p>\n

Leverkusen’s Champions League hopes suffered a blow in a 2-1 loss at home to Augsburg, dropping it to sixth, two points behind Hoffenheim.<\/p>\n

The top four qualify for the Champions League. <\/p>\n

Werder Bremen boosted its survival hopes with a 3-1 win at home against Hamburger SV in their northern derby. Bremen moved level with the visitors on 31 points, five points above St. Pauli.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Not that Bayern Munich needed any help, but the Bavarian powerhouse can clinch another Bundesliga…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,5513,710,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-5662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-germany","9":"tag-s","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}