Saarbrucken just went up 2-0 over Frankfurt in the 78th minute. Saarbrucken is a 3. Liga side that has beaten Karlsruher (2. Bundesliga) and Bayern Munich so far. This would be another massive upset of a Bundesliga side and would put Saarbrucken in the quarterfinals. Now Frankfurt is down to 10 men as one of their players just turned and kicked a Saarbrucken player in the back of the legs in the attacking 18 yard box while the ball was on the other side and Frankfurt was the one of the attack.
Santos was relegated from the Brazilian Serie A for the first time in 111 years. Their fans reacted exactly how you might expect. https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ne...y-irate-fans-force-players-to-run-for-safety/
Hoffenheim goes up 1-0 on Bochum with an own goal that can only be referred to as a pinball wizard goal.
32 in Montana for the first FCS quarterfinal of the weekend. Montana takes the opening kickoff back for a TD. Furman hits a 70 yard pass down to the 1 and scores on the next play. 7-7 with 13:22 left in the first quarter.
Munich pulls one back before halftime, but Frankfurt scores right out of the gate in the 2nd half and it's 4-1 in the 50th minute.
Heidenheim scores in the 69th and 71st minutes to go ahead of Darmstadt 3-2. Frankfurt is now up 5-1 over Bayern. Union Berlin is up 2-0 over Gladbach, which would be their first win in any competition since August.
Heidenheim 3-2 Darmstadt Werder Bremen 2-0 Augsburg Wolfsburg 0-1 Freiburg Union Berlin 3-1 Monchengladbach (1st win in any competition since August 26 for Union) Eintract Frankfurt 5-1 Bayern Munich (xG was 1.61 - 1.98 in Bayern's favor) Bayern has a game in hand on Leverkusen, but could find themselves 4-6 points behind after tomorrow. A comb doesn't feel appropriate for that last one, so:
#5 Dortmund vs #4 Leipzig (ABC) #3 Aston Villa vs #2 Arsenal (NBC) Quite the nice broadcast TV day right now.
7th minute goal for McGinn puts Aston Villa up 1-0. VAR overturns a yellow/penalty to a red for DOGSO and Dortmund is down to 10 in the 15th minute as Hummels is sent off.
Dortmund uses the Zehn-Mann advantage to score in the 6th minute of stoppage time and tie it 1-1 at the half.
Arsenal has a game tying goal called off for handball in the 90th minute. Dortmund stops several Leipzig chances but still trails 2-1 approaching stoppage time.
Aston Villa win it 1-0. They stay in 3rd but move 1 point behind Arsenal for 2nd. Leipzig scores in the 1st minute of stoppage time to go up 3-1 but Dortmund scores 2 minutes later and then has a shot denied in the 5th minute of stoppage time. Leipzig wins and moves 5 points ahead of Dortmund while sitting in 4th place.
Shohei Ohtani gets $700 million over 10 years with the Dodgers. He's going to make almost as much as Bobby Bonilla.
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Stuttgart with 7 shots on goal so far, 35 minutes into the game, but still 0-0 against Leverkusen. Meanwhile, Luton Town has the halftime lead over Man City.