{"id":6169,"date":"2026-04-21T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/6169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:12:08","slug":"dortmund-lose-and-leave-door-open-for-bayern-to-claim-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/6169\/","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund lose and leave door open for Bayern to claim league title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>dpa<\/p>\n<p>Berlin <\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich will have a first chance to seal the Bundesliga title this weekend after Borussia Dortmund suffered a 2-1 defeat at Hoffenheim on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Serhou Guirassy cancelled out Andrej Kramaric\u2019s opener, but Hoffenheim took all the points as Kramaric completed a brace with a second spot-kick in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund sit 12 points behind Bayern with four games left. The Bavarians welcome VfB Stuttgart on Sunday and a draw is enough to give Bayern a 33rd Bundesliga title in club history.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Marie-Louise Eta made history as she became the first woman to coach a men\u2019s team in one of Europe\u2019s top leagues. But she made her debut as Union Berlin coach with a 2-1 home defeat to VfL Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n<p>In the other games, Fabian Rieder snatched a last-gasp 2-1 win for Augsburg against Bayer Leverkusen, while Werder Bremen prevailed 3-1 in the Northern derby against SV Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Saturday, Eintracht Frankfurt host RB\u00a0Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund must also wait <\/p>\n<p>for Champions League <\/p>\n<p>Hoffenheim took the lead when Kramaric was on target from the spot in the 41st after Niklas S\u00fcle blocked the ball with his hand in the box.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund levelled in the 87th as Guirassy picked up a through ball from Ramy Bensebaini and slotted it into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<p>That result, combined with Leverkusen\u2019s defeat, would have qualified Dortmund for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>But they will have to wait at least another week thanks to Kramaric\u2019s winner in the eighth minute of stoppage time. It was another penalty for Hoffenheim, this time after Julian Ryerson\u2019s handball.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffenheim, meanwhile, benefited from Leverkusen\u2019s defeat and moved up to fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Eta makes historic debut, but with defeat Eta was promoted to the job as Union coach after the club dismissed Steffen Baumgart. But the change still didn\u2019t make an impact as the Berlin team extended their winless run to four games.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Wimmer and Dzenan Pejcinovic gave Wolfsburg a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Burke pulled one back in the 86th but his effort came too late and Union couldn\u2019t stage a turnaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"dpa Berlin Bayern Munich will have a first chance to seal the Bundesliga title this weekend after Borussia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[193,814,18,6190,6189,333,1696,6191,6188,6187,5264,6192,2023],"class_list":{"0":"post-6169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-bayern","10":"tag-berlin","11":"tag-claim","12":"tag-door","13":"tag-dortmund","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-league","16":"tag-leave","17":"tag-lose","18":"tag-open","19":"tag-title","20":"tag-to"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","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=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}