Bundesliga se nakon duge zimske stanke ponovo vratila na scenu. Nakon što je minhenski Bayern u petak prošao gostovanje u Monchengladbachu, program 18. kola njemačkog prvenstva nastavljen je s novih pet susreta. Iako je dortmundska Borussia dvaput vodila, Augsburg je na Signal Iduna Parku izvukao bod, odigravši 2:2.
Još je veća drama bila u Freiburgu gdje je domaćin velikim preokretom u drugom dijelu slavio 3:2 protiv Apotekara iz Leverkusena. Važne pobjede na gostovanjima ostvarili su Mainz, slavivši u Stuttgartu (1:2), te Hannover u Wolfsburgu (1:3). Jedini pogodak za domaću momčad djelo je Ivice Olića koji je igrao do 69. minute. Ivan Perišić ušao je s klupe u igru osam minuta ranije.
Borussia (D) - Augsburg 2:1 (Bender 5, Sahin 66/Bender 56-ag, Dong-Won 72)
BORUSSIA (D): Weidenfeller - Schmelzer, Sokratis, Bender, Grosskreutz - Kehl, Sahin - Reus, Mkhitaryan (84 Schieber), Blaszczykowski (6 Aubameyang) - Lewandowski
AUGSBURG: Hitz - Ostrzolek, Klavan, Bracker, Verhaegh - Baier - Werner, Altintop (35 Milik) (88 Hong), Vogt, Hahn - Bobadilla (70 Dong-Won)
Freiburg - Bayer Levekusen 3:2 (Mehmedi 27, Schmid 53, Klaus 90/Bender 4, Rolfes 35)
FREIBURG: Baumann - Sorg, Hohn, Krmas, Mujdža - Fernandes, Ginter - Pilar (46 Klaus), Darida (90 Schuster), Schmid - Mehmedi (90 Hanke)
BAYER (L): Leno - Boenisch, Toprak, Reinhartz, Donati - Can, Rolfes, Bender - Son (83 Ryu), Castro - Kiessling (71 Derdiyok)
Wolfsburg - Hannover 1:3 (Olić 35/Rudnevs 28, Bittencourt 50, 72)
WOLFSBURG: Benaglio - Rodriguez, Knoche, Naldo, Trasch (61 Perišić) - Gustavo, Medojević - Diego, Arnold, de Bruyne - Olić (69 Dost)
HANNOVER: Zieler - Schulz, Hoffmann, Marcelo, Sakai - Bittencourt (90 Prib), Schmiedebach, Stindl, Huszti (83 Andreasen) - Diouf, Rudnevs (90 Schlaudraff)
Stuttgart - Mainz 1:2 (Abdellaoue 11/Okazaki 39, Saller 87)
STUTTGART: Ulreich - Rausch, Rudiger, Schwab, Sakai - Maxim (64 Werner), Gentner, Leitner, Harnik (64 Traore) - Abdellaoue, Ibišević
MAINZ: Karius - Park, Noveski, Bell, Pospech - Soto (59 Diaz), Geis, Moritz (83 Saller) - Muller, Okazaki - Malli (59 Koo)
Nurnberg - Hoffenheim 4:0 (Chandler 24, Drmić 41, 70, Ginczek 48)
NURNBERG: Schafer - Plattenhardt, Pinola, Nilsson (55 Petrak), Chandler - Frantz - Hlousek, Kiyotake (80 Gebhart), Feulner, Drmić - Ginczek (78 Pekhart)
HOFFENHEIM: Casteels - Johnson (46 Toljan), Vestergaard, Sule, Beck - Polanski (66 Modeste), Rudy - El Younoussi (56 Volland), Firmino, Hamad - Schipplock
