Emirates News Agency – Dortmund snatches a valuable victory over Mainz, and Union Berlin advances to second place in the German League

Thursday, January 26, 2023 – 1:55 am

Berlin, January 25, WAM, Union Berlin continued its awakening and advanced to second place in the German Football League, with its precious 2-1 victory at its host Werder Bremen today, Wednesday, in the 17th round of the competition, which witnessed a difficult and late victory for Borussia Dortmund at its host Mainz 2-1. .
Union Berlin returned to chasing Bayern Munich, the defending champion and the top of the competition table; As Union raised its score to 33 points, to advance to second place, 3 points behind Bayern, following achieving its second successive victory, and Werder Bremen’s balance froze at 21 points, following suffering its fourth consecutive defeat in the competition.
Werder Bremen was the first to score, but Union Berlin responded with two goals to achieve the valuable victory that gave it second place in the competition table at the end of the first leg.
Dortmund also came from behind with a very early goal scored by Mainz in the second minute of the match, to a valuable victory 2-1. The winning goal came at the end of the match through Giovanni Reina.
Dortmund raised its score to 31 points following achieving its second consecutive victory in the competition, and Mainz’s balance froze at 20 points following it suffered a second consecutive defeat and failed to win the seventh consecutive match in the competition.
In other matches today in the same round, Bayer Leverkusen beat Bochum 2-0, Augsburg beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 1-0, and Freiburg tied with Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1.

Zakaria Mohieldin / Ahmed Zahran