LEIPZIG, Germany : RB Leipzig knocked Bayern Munich, who they meet in five days\u00a0 time, off the top of the Bundesliga on Sunday with a 2-0 win at home to Hertha Berlin.
\nWith Bayern at bottom side Darmstadt on Sunday, Leipzig took their chance to reclaim top spot with a convincing win at their sold-out Red Bull Arena.
\nLeipzig, who had led for three weeks before last Sunday, are now three points clear.
\nHowever, Carlo Ancelotti\u00a0s Munich can regain top spot due to their superior goal difference by beating Darmstadt, ahead of Wednesday\u00a0s mouth-watering clash against Leipzig at the Allianz Arena.
\nGoals either side of the break by striker Timo Werner and burly centre-back and captain Willi Orban sealed Leipzig\u00a0s win.
\nIt put RB back on track after last Sunday\u00a0s shock 1-0 defeat at Ingolstadt which ended their 13-match unbeaten run — a record for a team at the start of their first Bundesliga season.
\n“I said after the (Ingolstadt) defeat that I wanted to see a reaction and my team didn\u00a0t disappoint. We showed what we wanted from the first second,” said Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuettl. Berlin coach Pal Dardai, whose side are fourth, admitted: “Leipzig were a bit too quick for us.”
\nRB went ahead when Guinea midfielder Naby Keita, who later went off with a leg injury and is set to miss the Bayern game, played Werner into the box to dart between two defenders and slot home on 41 minutes.
\nIt was the ninth goal in 15 games for RB\u00a0s top scorer.
\nWerner was shown a yellow against Hertha for play-acting when he went to the turf after being blocked by Berlin\u00a0s centre-back Jens Hegeler on 59 minutes.
\nLeipzig sealed the win on 62 minutes when Orban got on the end of Emil Forsberg\u00a0s corner kick and powered his header home, giving Hertha goalkeeper Rune Jarstein little chance.
\nOrban looked to have claimed his second on 78 minutes, but the linesman flagged with three Leipzig players offside.
\nElsewhere, Mainz midfielder Danny Latza hit a hat-trick in his team\u00a0s 3-1 home win over strugglers Hamburg.
\nAugsburg\u00a0s caretaker-coach Manuel Baum got off to winning start as Martin Hinteregger scored from a corner in their 1-0 home home over Borussia Moenchengladbach.
\nEx-Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry rescued a point for Werder Bremen with his sixth league goal this season in their 1-1 draw with Cologne to cancel out Artjoms Rudnevs\u00a0 goal.
\nUkrainian winger Yevhen Konoplyanka netted for Schalke in their 1-1 draw with Freiburg.
\nWant-away Germany star Julian Draxler returned to Wolfsburg\u00a0s line-up, having been dropped for their previous two games, to inspire a 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt, who had their nine-match unbeaten run ended.
\nIt was Draxler\u00a0s precise corner kick which Dutch defender Jeffrey Bruma headed home on 33 minutes for his club\u00a0s first win in five games, but the attacking midfielder is expected to leave in January\u00a0s transfer window.
\nFrankfurt\u00a0s hot-shot Alex Meier fired a penalty over the bar midway through the second-half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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