Maximilian Bauer is a 24-year-old centre-back and right-back for FC Augsburg. Bauer was born on February 9, 2000 in Windorf, Germany, and spent his youth career playing for Grün-Weiss Deggendorf until 2014, and SpVgg Greuther Fürth from 2014 to 2018. His senior career continued at Fürth, where he scored 3 goals in 86 appearances between 2018 and 2022. On February 2, 2022, he signed a 5-year contract with FC Augsburg, effective from July 1, 2022. He has since scored 1 goal in 30 appearances for the club. Bauer also scored 1 goal in 12 appearances for Germany’s U18, U19, and U21 squads between 2018 and 2023.
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Maximilian Bauer is a 24-year-old centre-back and right-back for FC Augsburg. Bauer was born on February 9, 2000 in Windorf, Germany, and spent his youth career playing for Grün-Weiss Deggendorf until 2014, and SpVgg Greuther Fürth from 2014 to 2018. His senior career continued at Fürth, where he scored 3 goals in 86 appearances between 2018 and 2022. On February 2, 2022, he signed a 5-year contract with FC Augsburg, effective from July 1, 2022. He has since scored 1 goal in 30 appearances for the club. Bauer also scored 1 goal in 12 appearances for Germany’s U18, U19, and U21 squads between 2018 and 2023.
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Leipzig advanced to 4th place in the table on Friday with a 5:1 win over hosts 1. FC Köln. Leipzig’s goals came from Xavi Simons in the 15th minute, Loïs Openda in the 63rd and 67th minutes, Amadou Haidara in the 70th minute, and Yussuf Poulsen in the 82nd minute. Köln’s only goal came in the 18th minute, from Sargis Adamyan, and it was his first league goal in a year and a half. The fight for the league title continues on Saturday when FC Bayern München visit SV Darmstadt 98. The hosts are facing relegation to the 2. Bundesliga, as they are 6 points behind the relegation play-off spot and 12 points out of safety, thanks to a run of 18 games without a win. That winless streak includes a 6:0 loss to Augsburg in Darmstadt’s last home game and an 8:0 loss in the reverse fixture at Bayern. Darmstadt have conceded a league-leading 60 goals this season. Bayern are coming off an 8:1 victory over Mainz last weekend, which allowed them to briefly close the gap on first-place Leverkusen to 7 points. Although Darmstadt drew their first league meeting with Bayern 1:1 way back in 1978, but have lost the next 7, and can at least hope to extend Bayern’s current streak of 4 away matches without a win in all competitions. The late game on Saturday is a derby between hosts TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and nearby VfB Stuttgart. Stuttgart continue to enjoy an unexpectedly successful season, and are closing in on a UEFA Champions League qualification. Stuttgart have long been the leading football club of Baden-Württemberg, including before the Bundesliga’s inaugural season, of which they were a part. Although the club has experienced the highs of 2 German championships and 2 DFB Pokals, they have also experienced the low of relegation. The current campaign began with a 5:0 win over Bochum, and the club went on to win 7 matches by Matchday 9 and at the time were in 2nd place behind Leverkusen. The hosts are also enjoying a respectable season, including a 7th-place berth going into Saturday’s match, and were the winners in the reverse fixture earlier this season. Several of the other clubs in the top half of the table will sort out the table when they compete on Sunday. Eighth-place Freiburg will host first-place Leverkusen, while fifth-place Dortmund will host sixth-place Frankfurt. Leverkusen need to collect 18 points from their final 9 games to take the title, regardless of Bayern’s results, and the Werkself have collected 23 points from the last 9 matches of the Hinrunde. Dortmund are winless in their last 5 league fixtures and have yet to beat a top-6 club this season. By Rich M.
Yannik Keitel is a 24-year-old defensive midfielder for Sport-Club Freiburg. Keitel was born on February 15, 2000 in Breisach, Germany, and spent his youth career playing for SV Breisach and SC Freiburg. He made his professional debut in the Bundesliga on February 29, 2020 in a 1:0 defeat away at Borussia Dortmund. He signed his first professional contract in April 2020, and has since scored 3 goals in 77 appearances for SC Freiburg and SC Freiburg II. Keitel also scored 3 goals in 32 appearances for Germany’s U15, U16, and U21 squads between 2015 and 2023. By Rich M.
Bayern’s title hopes suffered another blow on Friday with a 2:2 away draw against hosts Sport-Club Freiburg. Freiburg’s Christian Günter scored first, in the 12th minute, and Bayern’s Mathys Tel equaled in the 35th minute. Bayern then pulled ahead in the 75th minute, thanks to a goal from Jamal Musiala, but Freiburg’s Lucas Höler scored the final goal in the 87th minute. The match was Bayern’s 2000th in the division. The draw means that Leverkusen could pull a full 10 points ahead of Bayern in the table should Leverkusen win on Sunday in the derby against hosts 1. FC Köln. Fourth-place Dortmund will travel to take on Union Berlin on Saturday, a contest that will occur between 2 clubs that have each picked up 3 wins and just 1 defeat in the last 6. A win could move Union Berlin further into safety, while Dortmund continue to covet a 4th-place division finish. In the reverse fixture back in early October, Dortmund came from a 2:1 deficit to win the match 4:2. At the other end of the table, Darmstadt is still fighting for survival and will host Augsburg on Saturday. Darmstadt have gone 16 matches without a win, but that last win did occur against Augsburg in October. The club is, however, just 4 points behind Köln’s relegation play-off spot. Augsburg currently occupy 11th place and a win over Darmstadt could propel them into the top half of the table. The big match on Saturday is that between hosts VfL Wolfsburg and visitors VfB Stuttgart. The visitors are now just 7 points behind 2nd-place Bayern in the table, and could cut that spread to just 4 points with a win. Stuttgart trainer Sebastian Hoeneß is coming off a stomach bug and therefore canceled his pre-match press conference, saying he would limit his pre-match preparations to overseeing the final training session on Friday and traveling with the team. Wolfsburg have drawn 6 of their past 7 Bundesliga fixtures, while Stuttgart had won 4 games in a row before drawing with Köln last weekend. In this season’s reverse fixture between the 2 clubs, Serhou Guirassy picked up a hat-trick in a 3:1 victory. Looking ahead to Sunday, the derby between hosts 1. FC Köln and visitors Bayer 04 Leverkusen might appear to be a game between 2 mismatched sides, as 44 points separate them in the table: the largest gap between the 2 prior to a league encounter. Nevertheless, Leverkusen trainer Xabi Alonso said he’s expecting a “hard game with intense duels”. The weekend ends later Sunday when Hoffenheim host Bremen. Hoffenheim’s win in Dortmund was their first win in 9, while Bremen have lost just 1 of their past 10. |
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