Bundesliga matchday 5: Bremen catch Dortmund late, Freiburg draw level at the top, Nkunku hat-trick in Leipzig's 6–0

Borussia Dortmund were two goals up with five minutes left on Friday night and drew 2–2 with Werder Bremen, and their perfect start is over. SC Freiburg beat FC Schalke 04 2–1 on Sunday with ten men and are level with Dortmund on 13 points, top on goal difference. Bayern München were held 2–2 at FC Augsburg and are two points behind, and RB Leipzig put six past Eintracht Frankfurt, three of them by Christopher Nkunku. The round brought 35 goals in nine matches, twelve of them from the 80th minute on: four home wins, three away wins and two draws.

Friday

Borussia Dortmund 2–2 Werder Bremen was goalless for eighty minutes. Daniel Svensson scored on 80 from Fábio Silva's pass and Nico Schlotterbeck made it 2–0 on 85 from Joey Veerman. Ludovit Reis, from Oskar Wójcik, pulled one back on 88, and Niclas Füllkrug, from Marco Grüll, equalised on 90+2. Dortmund had 72 per cent of the ball, 21 shots and ten on target; Bremen's goalkeeper made eight saves. According to dpa, Dortmund also had an Ethan Nwaneri goal on 62 disallowed for a foul by Schlotterbeck. It was the first time this season the leaders had dropped points, Reuters notes, and the equaliser came from their former striker; Füllkrug told Sky he scored it "for us and not against them".

Saturday afternoon

FC Augsburg 2–2 Bayern München began with Robin Fellhauer's goal for Augsburg on 1, scored in under nine seconds: bundesliga.com calls it the fastest goal in the league's history. Bayern had three goals ruled out for offside, the league's report says, and Ismael Saibari equalised on 55 from Harry Kane's pass. Rodrigo Ribeiro restored Augsburg's lead on 64, and Nathaniel Brown, also from Kane, levelled on 80. Bayern had 70 per cent of the ball and 30 shots, ten on target; Augsburg's goalkeeper made eight saves.

1899 Hoffenheim 2–3 Hamburger SV turned after a red card. Yussuf Poulsen put Hamburger SV ahead on 12; Sebastiaan Bornauw's own goal levelled it on 45+6, after VAR had cancelled a Bambasé Conté goal three minutes earlier, and Conté put Hoffenheim ahead on 53 from Fisnik Asllani's pass. Bernardo was sent off on 65. Terem Moffi equalised on 83 from Miro Muheim's pass, two minutes after VAR ruled out a goal by Otto Stange, and Muheim won it on 90+4.

FSV Mainz 05 3–4 Bayer Leverkusen had seven goals for the second week running for Mainz. Robert Andrich scored for Leverkusen on 5 and Patrik Schick on 9, from Aleix García; Anthony Caci scored twice for Mainz, on 33 and on 42 from Nadiem Amiri's pass. Jarell Quansah on 55 and Moussa Diaby on 65, from Afonso Moreira, put Leverkusen 4–2 up, and Benedict Hollerbach scored Mainz's third on 90+2. Mainz had 23 shots to sixteen.

Union Berlin 1–0 SV Elversberg was settled by Livan Burcu on 81. Union Berlin had nineteen shots to seven and six on target to two, and won for the first time this season. Elversberg were caught offside seven times.

SC Paderborn 07 0–2 VfB Stuttgart: Jeff Chabot put Stuttgart in front on 25 and Chris Führich added the second on 83, both from Angelo Stiller's passes. Paderborn had 24 shots, six on target.

Saturday evening

RB Leipzig 6–0 Eintracht Frankfurt was decided inside five minutes. Ezechiel Banzuzi scored on 1 from Neil El Aynaoui's pass, and Christopher Nkunku on 5 from Antonio Nusa. Nkunku scored again on 41 and 44 to complete his hat-trick, Nusa made it five on 54 from Banzuzi, and Tidiam Gomis, from Benjamin Henrichs, scored the sixth on 89. Frankfurt had nine shots on target and 18 shots in all; Leipzig scored six from ten on target. The hat-trick took Nkunku to 51 Bundesliga goals, according to bundesliga.com, and Andrija Maksimović made his first Bundesliga start for Leipzig.

Sunday

1. FC Köln 2–1 Borussia Mönchengladbach went to Köln. Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson scored on 26, Joe Scally equalised for Gladbach on 39, and Said El Mala won it on 67 from Linton Maina's pass. Köln had twenty shots to sixteen, each side seven on target. Gladbach have lost all five league matches, and Alexander Blessin's first Bundesliga match in charge of Gladbach ended in defeat; he called the foul before the winner "a clear foul", Sportschau reports. El Mala said he would not forget the day.

SC Freiburg 2–1 FC Schalke 04 was won by ten men. Maximilian Eggestein scored on 10, Kenan Karaman equalised for Schalke on 30 from Adrian Gantenbein's pass, and Yuito Suzuki, booked for dissent on 49, was sent off on 64. Keisuke Goto, from Vincenzo Grifo, scored the winner on 85. Schalke had five shots and one on target, their goal. Sportschau notes that Freiburg also led the table after five matchdays in 2022/23; Julian Schuster said the manner of the win was "much nicer than top spot".

The table after matchday 5

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	SC Freiburg	5	4	1	0	+10	13
2	Borussia Dortmund	5	4	1	0	+7	13
3	Bayern München	5	3	2	0	+12	11
4	Bayer Leverkusen	5	3	1	1	+6	10
5	RB Leipzig	5	3	0	2	+10	9
6	FC Augsburg	5	2	2	1	+5	8
7	Werder Bremen	5	2	2	1	0	8
8	FSV Mainz 05	5	2	1	2	+3	7
9	SV Elversberg	5	2	1	2	0	7
10	1. FC Köln	5	2	1	2	−2	7
11	VfB Stuttgart	5	2	0	3	−1	6
12	Hamburger SV	5	2	0	3	−10	6
13	FC Schalke 04	5	1	2	2	−2	5
14	Eintracht Frankfurt	5	1	2	2	−7	5
15	SC Paderborn 07	5	1	1	3	−4	4
16	Union Berlin	5	1	1	3	−12	4
17	1899 Hoffenheim	5	1	0	4	−4	3
18	Borussia Mönchengladbach	5	0	0	5	−11	0

Freiburg and Dortmund are level on 13 points, Freiburg ahead on goal difference, +10 to +7, and with Bayern on 11 they are the three unbeaten sides. Leverkusen are fourth on ten. The points race shows Freiburg and Dortmund level after each of the first three matchdays, Dortmund two clear after the fourth, and the two level again now. At the bottom, Gladbach are the only club without a point, three behind Hoffenheim.

Numbers to know

• Twelve of the round's 35 goals came from the 80th minute on, three of them in stoppage time.
• Schick leads the scorers on five; Nkunku's hat-trick takes him to four, level with Füllkrug, Suzuki, Olise, Tietz and Ebnoutalib.
• Two red cards, both in the second half: Hoffenheim lost with ten men, Freiburg won with ten.
• Gladbach have lost five out of five and conceded 18, the most in the league; Union Berlin have conceded 17.

Next up

Matchday 6 opens on Friday 16 October with Eintracht Frankfurt v 1. FC Köln at 18:30 UTC. On Saturday 17 October, Union Berlin host Borussia Dortmund at 13:30 UTC, and Bayern München v RB Leipzig follows at 16:30 UTC. On Sunday 18 October, Bayer Leverkusen play SC Freiburg at 13:30 UTC, and Borussia Mönchengladbach v 1899 Hoffenheim closes the round at 15:30 UTC. The full round is on the Bundesliga page.

Sources for the context: Bundesliga, Bundesliga, Reuters via The Star, dpa via Volksstimme, Sportschau, Sportschau.