Bayern held at Union to leave title door ajar, Gladbach win

Bayern Munich were held to a I+! draw at Union Berlin on Saturday, giving defending champions BayerLeverkusenan outside chance of dragging themselves back into the Bundesliga title race.

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Bayern, who also dropped pointsin asurprise loss at home to Bochum last week, could be just six points ahead if Leverkusen win at Stuttgart on Sunday.

“It wasagame of twostories:the performance and the result,” said Bayern coach Vincent Kom- pany. “'ve been in football long enough to know this wasn't a bad performance away from home.

“Sometimes when you don't score it’s not because the strikers don’t put it in, it’s because the defenders and the keepers do a lot of things right.”

Bayern had most of the ball but struggled to break through a resolute Union defence.

With few chances in the opening period, Bayern'sbestchancecameafter5iminuteswhen Harry Kane drilled a free-kick through the wall but into the palms of Frederik Ronnow.

Leroy Sane put the visitors ahead after 75 minutes when he skated through a crowded penalty area to tap in a Josip Stanisic pass.

Union were however the better team after the goal and thehostslevelled through Benedict Hollerbach, who was on the spot to take advan- tage of an error from inexperienced goalkeeper Jonas Urbig.