There were goals in every game in Round 26- the last of the Bundesliga before March’s international break, and here we take a look at the Team of the Round, as nominated by the German media.

Results of Week 26

Gladbach 1:1 Freiburg
Stuttgart 1:1 Hoffenheim
Wolfsburg 5:2 Dusseldorf
Schalke 0:1 Leipzig
Augsburg 3:1 Hannover
Hertha 2:3 BVB
Leverkusen 1:3 Bremen
Frankfurt 1:0 Nuremberg
Bayern 6:0 Mainz

Team of the week: Jarstein (Hertha), Roussillon (Wolfsburg), Hinteregger (Frankfurt), Schlotterbeck (Freiburg), Schmid (Augsburg), Delaney (BVB), Kramatic (Hoffenheim), James (Bayern), Kalou (Hertha), Weghorst (Wolfsburg), Kruse (Werder)

It was a pretty evenly distributed team. Wolfsburg and Hertha both had two representatives while seven other teams had a single player.

Hertha were on the losing side against Dortmund, but had goalkeeper Jarstein and forward Kalou in the TOTW. Wout Weghorst scored a hat trick for Wolfsburg in their 5:2 win over Dusseldorf.

Schalke’s struggles continued as they lost to Leipzig.

Birthday boy Max Kruse scored twice for Werder as they beat Leverkusen. The latter are now four points behind Eintracht and are only ahead of Wolfsburg on goal difference.

Bayern bounced back from their midweek Champions League exit at the hands of Liverpool as they beat Mainz 6:0 at the Allianz Arena. The victory saw the Bavarians remain top of the Bundesliga going into the international break.

Bayern coach Niko Kovac made several changes to the side that had been knocked out of the Champions League. Joshua Kimmich and Thomas Muller, both suspended for Liverpool’s visit, came back into the starting XI. Defender Mats Hummels and midfielder Javi Martinez made way for Jerome Boateng and Leon Goretzka respectively, while Kingsley Coman was preferred on the left wing to veteran Franck Ribery.

It took Bayern just three minutes to open the scoring, with Robert Lewandowski beating Alexander Hack to Alaba’s near-post cross. They doubled their lead after half an hour- Goretzka chested the ball into the path of James, who netted from close range. An exquisite individual strike on the counter from Kingsley Coman made it 3-0 on 39 minutes and the game was as good as done by half time.

With Zidane returning to Real, James may not have a future at the Bernabeu, and the Colombian appeared to make a case for staying at the Allianz by scoring his first ever Bundesliga hat trick. He netted in the 51st and 55th minutes to make it 5-0 to Bayern, and was also Bayern’s best player on the afternoon as seen in these Bild ratings.

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