Bayern Munich suffered their fifth loss in six games on Saturday as former Bayern striker Nils Petersen scored an 89th-minute winner in relegation-threatened SC Freiburg’s shock 2-1 victory.
Having been knocked out of the Champions League’s semi-finals by Barcelona 5-3 on aggregate, despite a 3-2 home win against Barca on Tuesday, Bayern’s bad week continued.
The loss against Freiburg followed their DFB-Pokal defeat against Borussia Dortmund and league losses against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Augsburg, plus the away defeat against Barca in Bayern’s nightmare three-week period since winning their 25th Bundesliga title.
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“Freiburg wanted to win it more and showed more fight,” said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, whose side are to be presented with the Bundesliga trophy at home to FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday.
“It’s not been easy for us since winning the title,” Guardiola said. “We have one last game, then we can go on holiday and look at the future.”
Bayern took the lead in Freiburg when Bastian Schweinsteiger marked his 500th Bundesliga appearance by driving home a cross with 11 minutes gone.
However, to the delight of the crowd, the hosts drew level when midfielder Admir Mehmedi hit the bottom left-hand corner on 33 minutes.
Freiburg were unlucky not to be awarded a penalty after Bayern defender Rafinha fouled Mehmedi in the area early in the second half, while Schweinsteiger hit the crossbar with a free-kick with 20 minutes left.
Petersen hit Freiburg’s winner just three minutes after coming off the bench to seal their first win over his former club in 19 years when he converted Karim Guede’s pin-point accurate cross on 89 minutes.
The result lifted Freiburg out of the relegation places to 14th.
With one match left, things remain tight at the bottom with just four points separating the bottom six sides of SC Paderborn 07, Hamburg SV, VfB Stuttgart, Hannover 96, Freiburg and Hertha BSC.
Hamburg dropped back to 17th with a 2-1 defeat against Stuttgart, who climbed off the bottom to 16th.
Hamburg midfielder Gojko Kacar scored his third goal in three games with an early header, but Stuttgart roared as Christian Gentner and Martin Harnik netted first-half goals.
Paderborn defender Uwe Huenemeier suffered the nightmare of heading into his own net to seal his side’s 1-0 defeat against Schalke 04, which put them at the bottom of the table.
Ten-man Hannover boosted their survival chances with their first win since December last year, a 2-1 victory over Augsburg.
Captain Lars Stindl scored twice to hoist his team up to 15th on 34 points.
Hertha Berlin have 35 points after being held to a goalless draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt and are hovering just above the bottom three.
Third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach’s 2-0 win against Werder Bremen confirmed Lucien Favre’s side direct qualification into the Champions League thanks to Raffael’s second-half goals.
Leverkusen will finish fourth and go into the qualifier for a place in the Champions League’s group stage after their 2-0 home win against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim as free-kick specialist Hakan Calhanoglu curled one in just before the halftime whistle.
Stefan Kiessling added Werkself’s second.
VfL Wolfsburg enjoyed a 2-1 win at home to Dortmund in a dress rehearsal for the DFB-Pokal final.
Wolfsburg took the lead on 41 seconds when midfielder Daniel Caligiuri tapped home, but Borussia drew level when Kevin Kampl was fouled in the area by home goalkeeper Diego Benaglio and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang converted the resulting penalty with 11 minutes gone.
The hosts restored their lead when Brazil defender Naldo took a speculative swing at a Ivan Perisic header and the shot beat Dortmund goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak four minutes into the second half for the winning goal.
The two sides are to meet again at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on May 30 in the DFB-Pokal final.
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