Victory helped the defending champions to stay four points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga with seven games left to play
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There has been no football played in the country’s top division since Eibar’s game against Real Sociedad on March 10, but there is now optimism it can follow the lead of the Bundesliga, with matches set to resume behind closed doors
The 22-year-old scored his first Bundesliga goal in last Sunday’s 2-2 draw with FC Cologne since arriving the Opel Arena last summer.
Leaders Bayern Munich, chasing an eighth successive title, will host 13th-placed Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday evening.
The German top-flight league resumed last weekend having been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.
This is coming in spite of the fact that the number of coronavirus cases is still rising in South America’s hardest-hit nation
Champions Bayern Munich scored a goal late in each half to beat promoted Union Berlin 2-0 on their return to the Bundesliga on Sunday.
The Premier League in England hopes “Project Restart” will move a step closer to becoming reality on Monday.
Borussia Dortmund provided much-needed fireworks with a 4-0 demolition of bitter rivals Schalke 04 on Saturday after the German league restarted in front of empty stands after a suspension of over two months, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Balogun moved out of Germany for the first time when he signed for Premier League team, Brighton and Hove Albion, in 2018, after the expiration of his contract with Mainz O5.
Players in the English Premier League will be prohibited from tackling while pitches will have to be disinfected when clubs return to training, a report indicates.
Germany’s Government on Wednesday greenlit the league to return, and the Ordinary Assembly of the German Football League, made up of the 36 clubs in the top two tiers of the nation’s football competition, agreed on Thursday to have the first match played on May 16 in order to complete the season by June 30.
Former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov fears the performance of some players could suffer in the absence of spectators and a normal atmosphere at stadiums.
World Cup record scorer, Miroslav Klose, has signed a one-year contract to become Bayern Munich assistant coach under head coach Hansi Flick from next season, the Bundesliga champions said on Thursday.
The Bundesliga has been given the green light by the German Government to recommence their season, following a meeting on Wednesday.
The Bundesliga is set to return May 15 as the German Government prepares to ease lockdown restrictions.
German top-flight football club FC Cologne said on Friday that group training was continuing in spite of three people at the club testing positive for COVID-19.
A decision on the return date of the Bundesliga has been delayed until next week, meaning the very earliest German football could return to action will be May 16.
Bayern Munich’s Sporting Director, Hasan Salihamidzic, said he expects to renew goalkeeper Manuel Neuer’s contract and also hopes for star international players to transfer over, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.
Teams in the country’s top two tiers have already returned to training as the country begins to relax some of its social distancing restrictions imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus