Bundesliga, Week 2: Schalke steal a point from Bayern Munich

Freiburg and Gladbach played a scoreless draw in another defensive match that featured just seven shots on target. Considering the busy run of games that Gladbach has had to deal with at the beginning of the season -- five competitive matches in 16 days -- a draw on the road isn’t the worst result for them. It’s Freiburg’s first point of the season, and Gladbach’s second.

Two minutes from time, David Alaba was tackled just inside the area but was told to get up by the referee. It was a tough decision but it looked like the correct one. Four minutes of extra time saw few chances for either team.

FC Bayern looked nowhere near as dominant in the second half. With Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery out, the attack doesn’t look as dynamic as it will later in the season. Credit the Konigsblauen for keeping it tight at the back and surviving the pressure to get a point at home against Bayern, which is always a good point. Bayern will rue the chance to take three after going up early on.

Paderborn bounced back from a disappointing draw in their opening match with a thorough 3-0 win over Hamburg. It’s the first ever victory in the German top flight for Paderborn, which took the lead in the first half thanks to Elias Kachunga and never looked back. Cologne earned their first win of the season as well, defeating Stuttgart 2-0 behind goals from Yuya Osako and Anthony Ujah.

Here’s a look at all the results from Saturday’s schedule in the Bundesliga:

Player tunnels are normally solid colored, or have the team name on it. Sometimes there are sponsors or images representing the team’s history.

But if you’re Schalke, you turn your player tunnel into a mining shaft where there is probably a serial killer at the end. Because this is football and football is for tough people. Or they are deranged and terrifying.

The former Dortmund striker scored five goals in the preseason, seemingly all of them worthy of the highlight reel, but missed a penalty in Bayern’s win over Preussen Muenster in the first round of the DFB-Pokal and had one called back for offside against VfL Wolfsburg last week. He’ll be looking to open his Bundesliga account against a Schalke side that has looked shaky in the back to open the season.

A reported transfer target for several Premier League teams this summer, left back Christian Fuchs found himself pressed into service following the early injury to Sead Kolasinac last week, and now has the daunting task of shutting down containing keeping track of one of the best right wingers in the world. Everybody knows the book on Robben -- he’ll cut inside and strike with his deadly left foot - but few are able to keep him from executing his plan. There’s no doubt he’ll have plenty of opportunity on Saturday, and Fuchs will need to prove he’s equal to the task.

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