A second of uncertainty from goalkeeper Jonas Urbig allowed Benedict Hollerbach to attain a late aim as Union Berlin secured a 1-1 house draw on Saturday with Bayern Munich, who nonetheless prolonged their lead atop the Bundesliga standings to 9 factors.
Bayern, chasing a record-extending thirty fourth league title, climbed to 62 factors. Champions Bayer Leverkusen, who’re in second place, have a recreation in hand and journey to face VfB Stuttgart on Sunday.
Vincent Kompany’s Bayern started on the entrance foot and arrange camp in Union’s half however the hosts have been compact in defence and largely restricted their opponents to long-range efforts.
Serge Gnabry had Bayern’s finest likelihood of the goalless first half in stoppage time when Michael Olise performed him by way of on aim, however his shot from a good angle was saved out by goalkeeper Frederik Ronnow.
Bayern saved probing after the interval, with Jamal Musiala and Harry Kane fluffing their traces from promising positions, earlier than substitute Leroy Sané lastly broke the impasse within the seventy fifth minute when he fired in Olise’s cutback.
For all their early dominance, Bayern’s lead lasted simply eight minutes.
Union, who had been content material to sit down again and soak up strain for a lot of the match, made a double change as they sought an equaliser and have been in a position to catch Bayern off guard.
Josip Juranovic floated a cross into the penalty space and Urbig, who’s deputizing for the injured Manuel Neuer and Daniel Peretz, might handle solely a weak punch out which was headed in by former Bayern academy participant Hollerbach.
It was a second straight league match with no win for Bayern after their shock 3-2 house loss to VfL Bochum final week.
For Union, who are actually winless of their 12 Bundesliga conferences with Bayern, the draw moved them up one place to thirteenth.
The Berlin aspect performed the match with out coach Steffen Baumgart, who was watching on from the stands as he serves a touchline ban.
