Schalke is now fourth in the Bundesliga after being one of the few contenders for a place in European competition, who achieved victory early Saturday matches of the 25th round. Schalke prevailed with 3: 1 as guests of Cologne and scrambled up the coveted position.
This has been facilitated and the loss of Borussia Monchengladbach Wolfsburg and another offshoot of Bayer Leverkusen, although no direct bearing on the ranking of the team from Gelsenkirchen, led to the removal of "aspirin" of the battle for the Champions League.
Otherwise match in Cologne offer a lot of emotions, but from the outset it was obvious who will be the winner. More in 2 minutes, Schalke were given a penalty and the ball stood behind Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who was ruthless for 1: 0.
The intrigue decreased dramatically after 23 minutes when Max Meyer scored for 2: 0 after receiving a great ball into the box from Pierre-Emile Hyoyberg with a powerful shot into the bottom right corner stuffs team's Cologne 2: 0.
"Goats" still managed to cut ten minutes after, when Philip Mladenovic and a perfect header Leonardo Betancourt made it 1: 2. Even in defending an attack Yannis Belhanda slammed off the post for Schalke, but more goals before the break fell.
After the resumption of the game Cologne missed two chances to equalize as Marcel reset and Philip Hosiner failed to score for the team. And everything in this match finished in 76th minute. Then Dennis Aogo found perfectly Franco Di Santo and he empty net shape final 3: 1.
So Schalke collected 41 points and is now in fourth place, just one behind third Hertha. Cologne did their languishing in mid-table and 30 points in 11th position, but is still far from the danger zone.
In the other derby of the round Wolfsburg beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2: 1 and took the fourth position. The denouement was there earlier. Within three minutes between 15th and 17th "wolves" quickly led 2: 0 with goals from Julian Draxler and Max Kruse, but just six minutes later Rafael reduce back and intrigue until the very end.
More shots did not fall and Wolfsburg congratulated the important victory which "wolves" gathered 37 points and are now seventh. Monchengladbach does is fifth with 39 points and has dropped below Schalke.
Misstep made and Bayer Leverkusen. "Aspirin" ended 3: 3 against Augsburg, at least thus snapped a three defeats in a row, but that X can not help them in the battle for the Champions League.
But at least Bayern deserved praise for his return to battle in this game. By the 60th minute the team fell 0: 3 after a hat-trick of Korean Cheol Koo January, who scored in the 5th, 44th and 57 minutes.
But first, Karim Belarabi reduce after 60 minutes, Paul Verheeh cut, having noted stupid own goal in the 80th minute and in the final seconds after a penalty Hakan Chalhanoglu shape the final 3: 3.
So Bayer garnered 36 points, but is already the seventh and now is out of position for Europe. Augsburg has 26 points and poizplazna less than the danger zone. See all results of the early matches in the Bundesliga Saturday:
Cologne - Schalke 1: 3
Eintracht - Ingolstadt 1: 1
Augsburg - Bayer Leverkusen 3: 3
Stuttgart - Hoffenheim 5: 1
Wolfsburg - Borussia M 2 1
Werder Bremen - Hannover 4: 1
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