Vincent Kompany was named the Manager of the Season for guiding Burnley to English Premier League promotion in 2023 but his team suffered a quick relegation in the 2024 season with just five wins in 38 matches.
Granit Xhaka and Robert Andrich were on target as Bayer Leverkusen beat Mainz by 2-1 at BayArena to register their 19th win in the 23rd Bundesliga match this season on Friday and shattered a record for most unbeaten matches in German football history.
The English forward had arrived at Old Trafford from Bundesliga giants for a transfer fee of £73 million in July 2021 but failed to make an impact and recently lost a place in the team after a clash with manager Erik ten Hag.
England football team captain scored the only goal of the game as Bayern Munich registered a 0-1 win against FC Koln. With 18 goals in Bundesliga 2023/24, Kane shattered Kevin Keegan and Jadon Sancho's huge record to script history.
Harry Kane scored his maiden Bundesliga goal during Bayern Munich's 4-0 win over Werder Bremen.
Schalke plunged into financial problems in 2020 blamed on the coronavirus pandemic and years of heavy spending without enough Champions League revenue to cover the costs
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Bayern Munich completed a decade of domestic dominance by beating main rival Borussia Dortmund 3-1 to seal a record-extending 10th consecutive Bundesliga title.
Mahmoud Dahoud's 89th-minute winner on Saturday after Jude Bellingham equalized in the 86th moved Dortmund six points behind Bayern Munich a day after the league leader's 2-1 loss at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The 19-year-old Pepi, who joined Augsburg from Major League Soccer’s Dallas on Monday, came on in the 60th minute with his new team already 2-1 down.
The first game after the league's winter break was in doubt due to a host of infections at both clubs with Bayern particularly hard hit.
The hosts caught the best possible start as the 'Foals' opened the scoring with their first chance of the game after Joe Scally's lay-up by header allowed Florian Neuhaus to slot home from 14 meters in the 6th minute, on Wednesday night.
The Bavarians took the reins on the road from the starting whistle as Gnabry posed a lot of danger after coming close in the 10th minute before Stuttgart goalkeeper Florian Muller denied the German international 10 minutes later in a late Tuesday encounter.
Bayern's win restored a commanding lead in its pursuit of a 10th consecutive Bundesliga title and all but ensured the team will take the symbolic prize of being top at the Christmas break, with two games to go.
The hosts overran Arminia's defence, but Bayern remained wasteful as neither Leroy Sane nor Robert Lewandowski could beat the visitors' goalkeeper Bielefeld Stefan Ortega despite promising chances.
Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting and Michael Cuisance have to self-isolate after coming in contact with a person, who tested COVID positive.
Bouncing back from a rare loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in its last game, Bayern dismantled Leverkusen 5-1 on Sunday with two goals apiece from Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry.
Khaled Narey, who is Black and played for Hamburg before joining Fortuna, said on Instagram on Sunday that some fans 'racially abused me during the game and threw beer at me.'
The teams are level on points at the top of the league going into Sunday's match. Although it's only been seven games
German football player Dennis Erdmann was found to have racially abused opposing players during a third division game and banned for eight weeks
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