The Bayern Munich winger Kingsley Coman scored once in each half to lead the champions to a 3-0 home win against Freiburg on Sunday as they bounced back from their draw with RB Leipzig last week.
Goals from Coman and Leroy Sané in the first half put Bayern in the driving seat and the France international Coman scored again after the interval. Bayern are third on 17 points, two behind the leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who earlier beat Köln 3-0.
Coman opened his account with a sensational goal in the 12th minute after picking up the ball and charging down the right wing. The 27-year-old, almost at the sideline, looked set for a deep cross but instead floated the ball in off the far post from 25 metres out. Sané quickly doubled their lead in the 25th and had another effort ruled out after a VAR review.
With Freiburg posing no threat, Bayern took their foot off the gas after the break. Coman should have scored again in the 78th minute but chose to lay the ball off for Mathys Tel, who was offside. Tel had replaced Bayern’s top scorer Harry Kane in the 72nd minute.
The Freiburg goalkeeper Noah Atubolu tipped a shot by Leon Goretzka on to the crossbar in the 83rd minute but was beaten two minutes later when Coman’s deflected shot made it 3-0.
In La Liga, Antoine Griezmann scored a late penalty to give Atlético Madrid a 2-1 home win against Real Sociedad, in a match in which VAR was again under the spotlight after two contentious handball decisions.
The hosts dominated from the start and Samuel Lino opened the scoring in the 22nd minute with a tidy finish between the goalkeeper and the near post after beating the offside trap following a brilliant long pass by Koke.
Atlético missed several chances, including two strikes off the post, one by Rodrigo de Paul, the other by Axel Witsel from point-blank range, but Real Sociedad slowly started to take control and almost scored when Mikel Oyarzabal’s shot hit Jan Oblak’s left upright.
In the 67th minute the referee, José Luis Munuera Montero, spent several minutes in a lengthy VAR check for a possible handball inside the box, but decided there had been no infringement.
The visitors equalised through Oyarzabal after a 73rd-minute counterattack and Oblak made two crucial saves to prevent them from taking the lead.
Atlético were given a lifeline when the referee spotted a handball by Real Sociedad’s Carlos Fernández in the 86th minute and Griezmann slotted home the penalty to earn his side the three points. The Real Sociedad players and coach, Imanol Alguacil, were furious, complaining vociferously to Montero because Fernández had his back to the play when Griezmann’s shot hit his arm.
“When the referee decides, in the end it’s going to be complicated, but football continues,” Griezmann told DAZN. “You have to set rules and not leave it to the referee’s interpretation. Today he whistled in our favour and we won. It won’t always be like that.”
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“Sometimes the referee sees it clearly and sometimes he does not. Maybe the referee has slept badly and doesn’t feel like interpreting right or wrong. You have to set rules.”
Atlético, who have a game in hand, moved up to 19 points from eight games and are fourth, five points behind the leaders Real Madrid.
In Serie A, the Roma striker Romelu Lukaku scored twice as they strolled to a 4-1 win at the bottom side Cagliari to take the pressure off José Mourinho.
Roma struck twice in two minutes to take an early hold on the game. Houssem Aouar scored in the 19th minute and a minute later Lukaku chested home a Rick Karsdorp cross.
Paulo Dybala went off injured in the first half but his replacement Andrea Belotti made it 3-0 six minutes after the break before Lukaku got his second just before the hour. Cagliari scored a late consolation goal from a Nahitan Nández penalty.
Roma moved up to 10th on 11 points from eight games, while Cagliari remain bottom with two.
In Ligue 1, Montpellier’s home game against Clermont was abandoned in stoppage time after the visiting goalkeeper Mory Diaw was stunned by a firework.
The home side were leading 4-2 when a firecracker was thrown from the stands and landed and exploded near Diaw as he prepared to take a goalkick, leaving the Clermont player needing treatment. He was carried off the field on a stretcher before it was announced the game was called off.
A brief statement on Montpellier’s official website read: “While the HSMC was heading towards a 4-2 victory against Clermont, the meeting … between Montpellier and Clermontois was suspended in added time after the explosion of a firecracker near the Auvergen goalkeeper, Mory Diaw.”
Ligue 1 simply said on X, formerly Twitter: “Montpellier x Clermont is suspended until further notice.”
Montpellier, seventh in Ligue 1, were heading towards victory as the game entered time added on, despite the 54th-minute dismissal of the defender Maxime Estève for two yellow-card offences.
Clermont, who sit bottom without a win, twice equalised through Yohann Magnin and Cheick Konaté after Musa al-Taamari and Teji Savanier’s penalty had put Montpellier ahead. Savanier, with a second penalty, and Taamari scored again as Montpellier took a two-goal lead.
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