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