At the expense of Fribourg, Bayer also won 5-1 in this 15e lifted from the Bundesliga, with a nice quadruplet from Schick and a goal from Wirtz.
The outgoing champion thus follows the frenetic pace of the Munich leader, nevertheless at a distance of four lengths. And with now five more units on the clock than Frankfurt, beaten earlier in the day by Mainz (1-3), fifth, two points behind Eintracht and the podium.
Note also the setback for Stuttgart at home against Sankt Pauli (0-1) – a setback for the VfB which could aim for the Top 5 and which, let us remember, will certainly play big at the end of January against PSG – and vice versa – during the last act of the first phase of the Champions League.
