BERLIN: Sergio Cordova scored in injury time to earn Augsburg a 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich and prevent the German champions from reclaiming the top spot in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Goals from Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry had put Bayern on course but Cordova ensured they dropped points for the second consecutive game and remained a point behind the league leaders Borussia Moenchenglabach.

The seven-time defending champions were stunned when Augsburg’s Marco Richter scored in the first minute after a one-two with Rani Khedira.

But Gnabry crossed for Lewand­owski to equalise in the 14th. It ensured the Polish striker matched Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Bunde­sliga record of scoring in each of the first eight games of the season. The former Dortmund striker managed it in 2015. Lewandowski also became the first to score in eight consecutive league games for Bayern since Dutch forward Roy Makaay in 2005.

Bayern’s first-half performance was marred by many small mistakes, though both sides missed good chances to score.

Gnabry made no mistake four minutes into the second half with a fine individual goal, but the visitors were stunned again by Cordova’s late leveler.

Union Berlin ended a run of four defeats by beating Freiburg 2-0 at home, RB Leipzig were held 1-1 at unbeaten Wolfsburg, Hertha Berlin came back to draw 1-1 at Werder Bremen and Fortuna Dusseldorf defeated 10-man Mainz 1-0.

Late on Friday, Goncalo Paciencia scored twice as Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-0.

Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2019