Bundesliga Team of the Week – Matchday 1 | OneFootball

The 2026/27 Bundesliga began with a lively Matchday 1, and these were the standout performers across nine fixtures.

BuLi News highlights the Team of the Week drawn from the opening weekend’s best displays.

Goalkeeper: Nahuel Noll, Paderborn. He made four key saves to secure a 0-0 at Mainz for the promoted side.

Defence, RB Leipzig pair Ridle Baku and Castello Lukeba excelled in the 3-0 win over Gladbach. Baku scored and won five ground duels, while Lukeba posted 11 clearances, two blocks, four recoveries and 89 percent passing.

Bayern’s back line featured Dayot Upamecano, who scored and won nine duels in the 5-1 at Stuttgart. Alphonso Davies, preferred to Josip Stanisic, won four of five duels and supplied an assist.

Midfield, Joshua Kimmich pulled the strings for Bayern, producing two assists and winning five duels. Freiburg’s Yuito Suzuki hit a hat-trick in a 4-1 victory over Werder Bremen.

Michael Olise was irresistible for Bayern, struck the bar from a free-kick, then scored, and later had another ruled out for a marginal offside. Augsburg’s Anton Kade delivered a fine assist before adding his own goal in a 3-0 win over Schalke 04.

Elversberg’s Lukas Petkov drove their remarkable 3-2 success at Bayer Leverkusen with a goal and an assist.

Striker, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Younes Ebnoutalib completed a hat-trick in a 3-3 draw with Union Berlin after his side let a two-goal lead slip.

Source: BuLi News

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