Match highlights
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RB Leipzig vs VfL Bochum highlights
How the goals came
70' André Silva opens the scoring for RB Leipzig (the winner) → 73' Christopher Nkunku extends RB Leipzig's lead → 78' Christopher Nkunku extends RB Leipzig's lead. Full time: 3-0, RB Leipzig win.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 3 goals came after half-time.
70' André Silva (RB Leipzig) 1-0
RB Leipzig and VfL Bochum were still goalless at 0-0 after 70 minutes at Red Bull Arena. André Silva broke the deadlock to put the hosts 1-0 up. Leipzig never gave up the lead and went on to win 3-0, so Silva's strike stood as the winner. It also opened a spell in which the home side scored three times in eight minutes.
73' Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig) 2-0
Only three minutes after the opener, Christopher Nkunku added a second in the 73rd minute to make it 2-0. A match that had stayed goalless for 70 minutes swung decisively towards RB Leipzig with two goals in quick succession. The home side now held a two-goal cushion with the final stretch of the second half still to play.
78' Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig) 3-0
In the 78th minute Christopher Nkunku scored his second of the match, stretching RB Leipzig's lead to 3-0. It was the third goal in the eight minutes since André Silva's opener, and the scoring ended there. Leipzig pulled away from VfL Bochum inside 20 minutes of the second half and closed out a clean-sheet win at home.
