Marmoush double denies Bayern outright Bundesliga top spot

Marmoush's strike cued wild scenes in Frankfurt, who ensure Bayern go into the international break ahead of RB Leipzig only on goal difference with the Red Bull outfit winning 1-0 at Heidenheim earlier on Sunday.

Bayern had been closing out a 3-2 win but Marmoush raced clear in the fourth of six additional minutes and the 25-year-old punished slack Bayern defending to settle a six-goal thriller.

Frankfurt are now on 13 points, only a point behind the joint-leaders, and stretch their unbeaten run to seven games in all competitions under coach Dino Toppmoeller.

Bayern central defender Min-Jae Kim scored the opener after Thomas Mueller showed great awareness to roll the ball back to the Korean from a corner, allowing the defender to fire into the roof of the net.

It was only Kim's second goal as a Bayern player, but Bayern were undone by Frankfurt's first meaningful attack of the game, coming on the counter-attack and completely against the run of play.

Ansgar Knauff made it, sliding the ball through Aleksandar Pavlovic's legs and finding Marmoush, whose first touch got him away from the chasing Joshua Kimmich, he fired the ball past Manuel Neuer with his second.

Thirteen minutes later, Frankfurt had flipped the game on its head to move into a 2-1 lead. Marmoush turned provider, leading another breakaway and picking out Hugo Ekitike, with the Frenchman doing the rest with a clinical finish.

Marmoush is the Bundesliga's top scorer this season with eight goals in six games, three more than Bayern's Harry Kane.

 

October 6, 2024

Olise's strong start

But Frankfurt's lead lasted only three minutes. Dayot Upamecano stabbed the ball in from close range after Serge Gnabry had stretched the Frankfurt defence. This absorbing contest lurched back Bayern's way in the 53rd minute when Michael Olise continued his fine start to life in Germany.

The London-born Frenchman found the bottom corner from the edge of the box after Kane had flicked Raphael Gueirrero's pass into Olise's path before Marmoush ensured a share of the points.

 

October 6, 2024