{"id":189768,"date":"2025-10-04T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189768\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:14:08","slug":"dortmund-and-leipzig-draw-in-bundesliga-to-give-bayern-a-chance-to-stretch-its-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189768\/","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund and Leipzig draw in Bundesliga to give Bayern a chance to stretch its lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORTMUND, Germany (AP) \u2014 Bayern Munich stood to benefit as its two closest Bundesliga challengers Borussia Dortmund and Leipzig played out a 1-1 draw on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dortmund\u2019s Yan Couto leveled the score to cancel out Christoph Baumgartner\u2019s opener for Leipzig. The result gives Bayern a chance to go four points clear of Dortmund at the top of the standings if the defending champion beats Eintracht Frankfurt later Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kasper Hjulmand extended his unbeaten start as Bayer Leverkusen coach to a sixth game as Ernest Poku and Christian Kofane scored in a 2-0 win over Union Berlin, though left back Alejandro Grimaldo went off injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hjulmand\u2019s team got through a game without conceding for the first time since the Danish coach replaced Erik ten Hag last month after just two league games of the new season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eighteen-year-old American defender Noahkai Banks opened the scoring with his first Bundesliga goal as Augsburg beat Wolfsburg 3-1. Starting a league game for the first time since February, Banks scored in just the third minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another early goal decided Werder Bremen\u2019s 1-0 win over St. Pauli as Samuel Mbangula scored in the second minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">League leader Bayern visits Frankfurt later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORTMUND, Germany (AP) \u2014 Bayern Munich stood to benefit as its two closest Bundesliga challengers Borussia Dortmund and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-189768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}