European football: Frankfurt clip high-flying Freiburg’s wings

Freiburg missed a chance to return to the top of the Bundesliga after being held to a 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt . Bayern Munich’s ruthless 7-0 win over Union Berlin on Friday put the Bavarians ahead of Freiburg atop the table, but Freiburg dropped points for the first time this season as they remained second.

Several new members of the Germany coach Jürgen Klopp’s 44-man squad shone on both sides in a see-sawing encounter. Frankfurt’s Younes Ebnoutalib finished off a lovely team move to score 10 minutes in, just days after celebrating a surprise maiden Germany call-up.

Derry Scherhant, another of Klopp’s lesser-known new additions, levelled things up for Freiburg but Jonathan Burkardt edged Frankfurt back in front. Scherhant created a second for Yuito Suzuki to grab Freiburg a point and leave them level with Harry Kane’s Bayern on 10 points.

West Ham loanee Niclas Füllkrug continued his stunning form on his return to Germany, scoring for a third-straight Bundesliga match as hosts Werder Bremen came from two goals down to win 3-2 against Augsburg . Fuellkrug levelled things up with a blistering long-range effort in the 86th minute, before former Mitchell Weiser blasted in a winner in stoppage time.

Elsewhere, Hamburg notched their first goal, win and points of the season in a comfortable 2-1 home victory over Cologne . Albert Gronbaek laid on goals for Nicolas Capaldo and Yussuf Poulsen to help the hosts, one of the historical giants of German football, drag themselves off the bottom of the table.

Hamburg climbed past Borussia Moenchengladbach , who lost their fourth straight game in a wild 4-3 defeat by visitors Mainz . Just days after bidding farewell to sacked coach Eugen Polanski, things went from bad to worse for the hosts. Gladbach also missed a penalty in the defeat and are now the only Bundesliga side without a point after four matchdays.