HAMBURG: Yan Diomande scored the winner as RB Leipzig kept pace with a 2-1 win at Hamburger on Sunday to stay two points behind VfB Stuttgart in fifth.
Leipzig fell behind to a Fabio Vieira goal at Hamburg but a terrific Romulo backheel and Diomande’s well-taken strike turned the match to help the visitors keep in touch with the top four.
Romulo missed a second-half penalty but it did not matter as Leipzig grabbed a first league win since early February.
“This could trigger something,” Leipzig captain David Raum told DAZN, referring to his club’s Champions League prospects. “It’s important we were able to turn a game around after being down.”
Meanwhile, goals from Fares Chaibi and Jean-Matteo Bahoya lifted Eintracht Frankfurt to a 2-0 home win over Freiburg and past the visitors into seventh spot.
Chaibi snuck a low shot into the bottom corner with 64 minutes gone. The Algerian then passed to Bahoya who guided the ball over Freiburg’s Noah Atubolu nine minutes from time to seal victory.
Frankfurt have picked up seven points from four matches since Spaniard Albert Riera took over as manager, with their only loss coming at league leaders Bayern Munich.
Published in Dawn, March 3rd, 2026
