European roundup: Dortmund and Bayern slip, PSG close in on French title
Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equaliser from Silas Katompa Mvumpa to draw 3-3 at 10-man Stuttgart on Saturday and missed the chance to go joint top of the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich.
It all started well for the visitors when Sébastien Haller turned in Donyell Malen’s cutback in the 26th minute to put Dortmund ahead. They added another, seven minutes later, as Malen scored for the fourth straight league game before Stuttgart were left with 10 men following the dismissal of defender Konstantinos Mavropanos following a second booking just before half-time.
Stuttgart pulled a goal back through Tanguy Coulibaly’s deflected effort in the 78th minute and, with Dortmund in disarray, Josha Vagnoman levelled with a shot from inside the box six minutes later.
Dortmund thought they had won it when Gio Reyna struck in stoppage time but Silas drilled in his second to earn the hosts a point. Dortmund are on 57 points, two behind Bayern, who drew 1-1 against Hoffenheim with six games left.
The Bavarians were without the suspended Sadio Mané following his clash with teammate Leroy Sané after Tuesday’s 3-0 Champions League loss to Manchester City. Mané hit Sané after their quarter-final first-leg loss, earning a fine and a one-game ban.
While Bayern, who host City in the return leg on Wednesday, looked sluggish in the first half with only a few chances, they did go in front when the France international Benjamin Pavard drilled home after 17 minutes.
The visitors came close with two chances in the 55th minute – a Pavel Kaderabek volley and an Angelo Stiller header – that both narrowly missed the target. They got the equaliser in the 71st courtesy of a curled Andrej Kramaric free-kick.
Hoffenheim’s Andrej Kramaric scores. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
Hoffenheim thought their joy had been short-lived when Pavard stabbed in from close range a minute later, only for his effort to be ruled offside.
In the late game Eintracht Frankfurt earned a 1-1 draw with Borussia Mönchengladbach after Randal Kolo Muani’s late strike cancelled out Jonas Hofmann’s goal in the 13th minute.
There are no such concerns in France for Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain, for whom Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi scored first-half goals in 3-1 win over Lens at the Parc des Princes to charge nine points clear at the top.
Lens, still second but with their challenge badly dented, had Salis Abdul Samed shown a straight red card in the 19th minute for a tackle that missed the ball but caught Achraf Hakimi on the ankle.
PSG’s response was swift, the champions seizing the advantage to smash in three goals in a nine-minute spree. Mbappé made the breakthrough in the 31st minute when he swivelled and hit a pass from Vitinha in off the post.
Vitinha made it 2-0 six minutes later with a long-range screamer that left Lens goalkeeper Brice Samba with no time to react. Messi then got in on the act in the 40th minute after Mbappé backheeled the Argentinian through to fire in. Lens hit back in the second half with a consolation goal from the penalty spot on the hour from Polish winger Przemyslaw Frankowski. In the day’s other game Rennes kept up their push for a Champions League place with a 3-0 win over Reims, with two goals from Jeremy Doku.
In Spain Nacho and Marco Asensio scored within four minutes late in the second half to give Real Madrid a 2-0 win at lowly Cádiz and cut Barcelona’s lead in La Liga to 10 points.
PSG’s Kylian Mbappé celebrates scoring his side’s opening goal against Lens in a 3-1 win for the Ligue 1 leaders. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
Second-placed Real maintained their slim title chances by moving up to 62 points, behind Barcelona who travel to Getafe on Sunday.
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In other matches Real Betis maintained their top-four hopes with a 3-1 win over Espanyol which moves them to within three points of fourth-placed Real Sociedad, who were beaten 2-0 in the Basque derby at Athletic Bilbao, courtesy of two goals from Iñaki Williams. Betis moved above Villarreal who were also beaten, 2-1 at home by 10-man Real Valladolid.
Napoli, the leaders, were held to a goalless home draw by relegation-threatened Verona in Serie A on Saturday as Luciano Spalletti’s side finished winless for the third time in their last four games in all competitions.
Napoli thought they had opened the scoring in the 20th minute but Matteo Politano’s deflected strike was disallowed after Verona goalkeeper Lorenzo Montipo was obstructed by a player in an offside position.
The visitors had a chance to take a surprise lead just before the half-hour mark but the striker Kevin Lasagna, who ended a solo run with a powerful shot from a distance, was denied by the Napoli keeper, Alex Meret.
Although Napoli enjoyed the lion’s share of possession, reaching 81% in the second half, they appeared toothless against Verona’s solid defence and managed only three shots in the opening 45 minutes, none of them on target.
The substitute Victor Osimhen, returning from being sidelined due to a thigh strain, wasted a promising chance in the closing stages when he hit the bar in the 82nd minute. Verona could have sealed a win in stoppage time through a solo effort by the winger Cyril Ngonge who, one-on-one with Meret, struck well wide of the target.
Napoli’s advantage over second-placed Lazio narrowed to 13 points after Maurizio Sarri’s men grabbed a comfortable 3-0 win at lowly Spezia on Friday. Verona, 18th on 23 points, are three points from safety.
Milan were held to a 1-1 draw at eighth-placed Bologna earlier, with striker Nicola Sansone opening the scoring inside the first minute and Milan’s Tommaso Pobega equalising in the 40th. Milan, who would have provisionally moved up one place to third with a win, have now failed to win five of their past six league games.
Internazionale fell to a shock 1-0 defeat to promoted side Monza as Simone Inzaghi’s men slumped to a fourth loss in their last five league outings.
Monza took a surprise lead in the 78th minute through defender Luca Caldirola who met the corner and nodded home from close range. Inter, who are on course for a first Champions League last-four appearance since 2010 after their 2-0 win at Benfica in their quarter-final first leg on Tuesday, needed three points to return into the top four, and remain fifth, two points behind Milan.