Bundesliga Briefing: Record-breaking penalty saves, hat-tricks (or not) and Goldbridge deal success

Bret 'The Hitman' Hart, the former WWE wrestler, was in Kaiserslautern over the weekend for a card-signing event. He attended the 2.Bundesliga match between Kaiserslautern and Preussen Munster at the Fritz-Walter Stadion on Friday night, where he was presented with a shirt before kick-off and interviewed by Sky Deutschland. Hart expressed that he was not a big football fan but was getting into the sport and hoped for a home win; Kaiserslautern delivered with a 4-1 victory.

In the 1.Bundesliga, several matches took place. Borussia Monchengladbach, under interim coach Eugen Polanski, secured a last-minute 92nd-minute equalizer against Bayer Leverkusen for a 1-1 draw, with Haris Tabakovic scoring from a corner by debutant Charles Herrmann. Other results included Borussia Dortmund defeating Wolfsburg 1-0, RB Leipzig ending Koln's unbeaten start with a 3-1 win, Mainz thrashing Augsburg 4-1, and wins for Freiburg, Stuttgart, and newly-promoted Hamburg.

Penalty-saving drama occurred in multiple games. St Pauli's goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj saved a penalty from Stuttgart's Angelo Stiller during a 2-0 defeat, marking his sixth save in the last seven penalties faced. Freiburg's Noah Atubolu set a Bundesliga record by saving his fifth consecutive penalty against Werder Bremen's Romano Schmid, surpassing the previous joint record of four saves held by Bernd Leno, Frank Rost, Hans-Jorg Butt, and Thomas Zander.

Harry Kane of Bayern Munich continued his impressive form, scoring his 17th consecutive penalty in a 4-1 win over Hoffenheim, a Bundesliga first. His hat-trick brought him to 98 goals in 103 league games, putting him on the brink of breaking the record for fewest games to score 100 goals in Europe's top-five leagues, currently held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Erling Haaland at 105 games.

In a surprising result, Union Berlin upset Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 at the Waldstadion, with Oliver Burke scoring a hat-trick to secure the victory for Union Berlin.