Overview
- French prosecutors charged a 43-year-old father after police in Mulhouse found his 9-year-old malnourished in a locked delivery van, and social services have placed the children in care.
- FC Basel postponed a top-flight match after a basement fire at St. Jakob-Park destroyed kits, boots, and medical and technical gear, and Basel-Stadt authorities opened a criminal and technical investigation into the cause with no injuries reported.
- Wolfsburg’s 1–2 loss to Frankfurt on Saturday extended a club-matching run of 12 games without a win and left the team 17th on 21 points, in what board member Diego Benaglio called “a punch in the face.”
- Schalke won 2–1 at Elversberg in long stretches with ten men on Sunday and now hold a firm cushion to the promotion playoff place with five league games remaining.
- Paderborn beat Magdeburg 4–3 with Filip Bilbija scoring all four goals, and the victory kept the club in the top two as the promotion race tightens.