Day two of the Bundesliga season saw very little drop-off from Friday’s opening day, when champions Bayern Munich hung eight goals on Schalke.
Five of six games saw a winner score three or more goals on Saturday, with a 1-1 draw the lone “low-scoring” affair in Germany.
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The day was headlined by two impressive and dominant showings, one headlined by a 17-year-old American.
Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Borussia Monchengladbach
The season’s first match-up of top-four contenders saw USMNT teenager Giovanni Reyna score the game’s first goal and draw the penalty that Erling Haaland converted to give BVB breathing room at home.
Reyna’s goal was assisted by English teen Jude Bellingham, and fellow UK export Jado Sancho set up Haaland’s second of the day in the 77th minute as Dortmund took advantage of their chances on a day Gladbach started with Marcus Thuram and Alassane Plea on the bench.
Reyna started at attacking midfield underneath Haaland and Sancho. He finished with 100 percent passing over 78 minutes, drawing three fouls, registering a key pass, and winning an atypical 3-of-9 duels.
Here’s Reyna, from BVB.de:
Here’s the one goal that didn’t feature Reyna.
DORTMUND ARE ROLLING!
— ESPN (@espn) September 19, 2020
Erling Haaland gets his second of game after a perfect Jadon Sancho pass
🤩 pic.twitter.com/VlWOS6CDGC
Werder Bremen 1-4 Hertha Berlin
Those of us who went out on a limb and said Hertha Berlin could be a surprise team in 2020-21 were validated for a day by the visitors to the Weserstadion.
Dodi Lukebakio and Matheus Cunha both scored, Vladimir Darida had two assists, and Peter Pekarik joined Jhon Cordoba on the score sheet for the away side.
Hertha produced five big chances and conceded little to Bremen, who scored via Davie Selke in the 69th minute.
USMNT forward Josh Sargent played further back from the front line in an advanced midfield or wing role. He had a key pass, two tackles, an interception, and a clearance. He won only four of 10 duels and completed half of his passes on a 33-touch day.
Koln 2-3 Hoffeheim
Leicester City knew what it was doing when it signed Andrej Kramaric in 2015, but the spoils have all been seen in the Bundesliga.
Kramaric gave Hoffenheim 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 leads on Saturday in Cologne, overcoming home equalizers from Sebastian Andersson and Dominic Drexler.
The 29-year-old Kramaric now has five goals in two outings this season to give him 75 goals and 30 assists in 152 appearances for Hoffenheim.
He’s good.
Elsewhere
Bayern Munich 8-0 Schalke -- Friday
Union Berlin 1-3 Augsburg
Stuttgart 2-3 Freiburg
Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1 Arminia Bielefeld
RB Leipzig v. Mainz -- 9:30 am ET Sunday
Wolfsburg v Bayer Leverkusen -- Noon ET Sunday
STANDINGS
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Home | Away | PTS |
| Bayern Munich | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 3 |
| Hertha BSC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0-0-0 | 1-0-0 | 3 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 3 |
| Augsburg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0-0-0 | 1-0-0 | 3 |
| Freiburg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0-0-0 | 1-0-0 | 3 |
| Hoffenheim | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0-0-0 | 1-0-0 | 3 |
| Arminia Bielefeld | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0-0-0 | 0-1-0 | 1 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0-1-0 | 0-0-0 | 1 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Mainz 05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| RB Leipzig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Wolfsburg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| 1. FC Köln | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0-0-1 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Stuttgart | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0-0-1 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Union Berlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0-0-1 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Werder Bremen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0-0-1 | 0-0-0 | 0 |
| Mönchengladbach | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-1 | 0 |
| Schalke 04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | -8 | 0-0-0 | 0-0-1 | 0 |