Stuttgart ahead Deniz Undav opens the scoring for the house facet towards RB Leipzig on Sunday. Picture: AFP
BERLIN:
Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav scored the one purpose in a 1-0 residence win over RB Leipzig on Sunday, sending the fourth-placed hosts three factors away from the guests within the Bundesliga.
Undav pounced on an error from Leipzig goalkeeper Maarten Vandevoordt to attain his sixteenth purpose of the season and transfer Stuttgart stage with third-placed Hoffenheim on 50 factors.
“As we speak, we simply tried to win our duels. Profitable these small moments provides us a lift in entrance of our residence followers,” Undav stated to DAZN.
“And while you get that 1-0, you play with a bit extra confidence.”
Bayer Leverkusen, who had been held to a 1-1 draw by a nine-man Bayern Munich on Saturday, sit 5 factors behind Stuttgart and two behind fifth-placed Leipzig in a decent race for subsequent season’s Champions League.
Stuttgart play at Porto within the Europa League on Thursday searching for to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit and attain the quarter-finals of the competitors for the primary time since reaching the 1989 last.
One of the best probability of the primary half fell to Christoph Baumgartner, Leipzig’s high scorer this season, however the Austrian blasted nicely over the bar when one-on-one with residence goalkeeper Alexander Nuebel.
With 56 minutes gone, Vandevoordt handed the ball on to Stuttgart’s Chris Fuehrich, who squared for Undav to slip residence and rating for a fifth straight recreation.
Leipzig’s Willi Orban headed towards the within of the put up in stoppage time however Stuttgart held on for a vital victory.
The in-form Undav was coy when requested if Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann had already referred to as him up for the March friendlies, with the squad to be introduced on Thursday.
Undav, who has scored three objectives in six worldwide appearances, has not performed for Germany since final June.
“Possibly he is contacted me, possibly he hasn’t. However Thursday is 4 or 5 days away and I am relaxed.”
Union depart it late
Elsewhere, Jeong Woo-yeong scored in stoppage time and ‘keeper Matheo Raab produced a spectacular late save on his Union Berlin debut because the guests gained 1-0 at Freiburg.
Union’s first away win in 2026 took them seven factors away from the relegation playoff spot.
The groups had performed scoreless attracts in three of their previous 5 matches and this recreation regarded headed the identical method till Woo-yeong curled in a stunner by way of a crowded penalty field.
Raab leapt acrobatically to maintain out a last-ditch Jan-Niklas Beste effort within the twelfth minute of stoppage time.
Mainz gained 2-0 at Werder Bremen to overhaul the hosts and transfer three factors away from the relegation play-off spot.
A conventional big in peril of a second relegation in six seasons, Bremen’s woes had been summed up when their defender Marco Gruell gave the impression to be distracted by a pigeon strolling on the sphere as Mainz took a fast throw for Paul Nebel’s fifth-minute opener.
Mainz’s Lee Jae-Sung added one other within the second half to spice up their very own possibilities of survival.
