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Borussia Monchengladbach's 5-0 loss at Freiburg on Sunday cost Eugen Polanski his job, but the home side's flawless start also deserves the spotlight.

Elsewhere, Stuttgart's defensive problems continued in the opening phase of the campaign, Bayern Munich got back to winning ways, and Eintracht Frankfurt finally lifted their season into motion.

Borussia Dortmund's outstanding start rolled on, while RB Leipzig bounced back from two damaging defeats.

Looking back on the weekend, here are five things we learned from Matchday 3.

Before Saturday's kick-off, Julian Schuster had warned Freiburg against assuming Gladbach's poor start meant they were in for a straightforward afternoon.

Having seen his own side suffer back-to-back heavy defeats at the beginning of last season, Schuster knew very well that a team under pressure can respond, saying: “Why shouldn't it happen to our opponents?”

For 15 minutes, that looked like a fair concern.

Polanski felt his Gladbach side had begun better than Freiburg, even if they did not create a clear opening. Then Moritz Nicolas failed to deal with Derry Scherhant's corner, allowing former Foal Yannik Engelhardt to head Freiburg in front, before Igor Matanovic made it 2-0 six minutes later.

Tim Kleindienst was sent off early in the second half, after which Engelhardt and Matanovic both struck again, and Maximilian Eggestein wrapped up a 5-0 victory.

Schuster's team are top of the table after winning six matches in all competitions, and they have come through their three league fixtures conceding only one goal.

After the game, Polanski pointed to yet another individual mistake for the opening goal and admitted Freiburg's second had come far too easily.

He challenged Kleindienst's second yellow card, but refused to blame the referee for the defeat, with his team already 2-0 behind before the sending-off.

After shipping 12 goals in three league matches, Polanski called for “honest conversations”, and by Sunday the club had gone their separate ways with him.

Leipzig had lost to Werder Bremen and Como within the space of a week before Hamburg travelled to the Red Bull Arena on Sunday.

Wide player Antonio Nusa produced a brilliant display in a 5-0 victory, scoring once and setting up two more.

Speaking to Bulinews after the match, the winger said head coach Martin Demichelis had told the players to “look forward”, while still confronting what needed to change.

And among everyone on the pitch on Sunday, Nusa looked like the one who had fully absorbed that message.

He capitalised on an HSV error to make it 2-0, supplied the free-kick for Willi Orban's header, and then sent Christopher Nkunku through for his first goal since returning to Leipzig.

“Maybe I didn't get the output I deserved last season,” he told Bulinews, having recorded five goals and four assists in 35 appearances across all competitions last term.

Now he has three goals and two assists from five competitive appearances this season, with Sunday potentially a major afternoon for the Norwegian.

Now in his third season at the club, Nusa spoke about taking on greater responsibility, and Leipzig need him to influence scorelines more regularly.

On Sunday, he absolutely did that.

Adi Hutter's return to Frankfurt started with a draw at Union Berlin and a painful second half against Augsburg.

An away trip to Mainz, who had scored five in Hamburg in their previous outing, did not appear the friendliest place to chase a first league win.

But Can Uzun changed the mood after nine minutes, finishing Jonathan Burkardt's cut-back to give the visitors the lead.

Mainz then had a huge chance to level from the penalty spot, but summer arrival Noah Atubolu denied the vastly experienced Nadiem Amiri, before Burkardt scored against his former club moments later.

Atubolu's stop was his sixth straight penalty save in the Bundesliga, keeping the Eagles in command before they eventually sealed a 3-1 win.

Afterwards, Hutter admitted that defeat would have represented an “absolute false start” and brought much heavier pressure, despite Frankfurt showing encouraging signs across each of their first three matches, even in the 4-1 defeat to Augsburg.

Hoping to carry momentum into the international break, Eintracht host early leaders Freiburg at Deutsche Bank Park on Saturday, where Hutter will want the strong form of Burkardt and Uzun in attack to continue, while another impressive display from his new goalkeeper against his former employers would also be most welcome.

Stuttgart followed their opening-night 5-1 defeat to Bayern with a 4-1 victory over Koln and a Champions League win against Viking.

However, Saturday's visit to Hoffenheim revived familiar worries from the season's opening days, with much of VfB's good work undone by defensive mistakes.

Bambase Conte won the ball for the Sinsheim side and then sent Adam Hlozek through for the opener after 13 minutes.

Maximilian Mittelstadt equalised shortly after half-time, but the winning goal came from another Stuttgart error, as Albian Hajdari cut out a misplaced pass from Dzenan Pejcinovic before Adam Daghim slipped Hlozek in for his second goal of the afternoon.

The timing was especially frustrating for Sebastian Hoeness's side, with Grischa Promel feeling the visitors were on top and “on the verge of breaking them”, but had failed to turn that spell into something decisive.

VfB have now conceded eight goals in three Bundesliga games.

Five of those came against Bayern, while Koln's goal was an own goal, so the raw total does not tell the complete story.

But there are continuing concerns about how vulnerable they look whenever opponents are able to counter-attack, with Norwegian champions Viking causing them serious problems on Wednesday night.

For all the control expected from a Hoeness side these days, VfB have looked increasingly open to giving up chances in the early part of this season, with Hoffenheim becoming the fourth team this term to drive directly at the backline after finding space between the lines.

Making matters worse, both Jeff Chabot and Finn Jeltsch have been caught too high up the pitch on several occasions this season, and when that happens, the former's lack of pace becomes a problem.

VfB have begun the campaign with an approach built on outscoring opponents, but the issue is that when that does not happen, they are conceding too freely at the other end - leaving Die Schwaben with only three points from three matches ahead of Saturday's meeting with Borussia Dortmund.

Dortmund may not have played the most thrilling football in the early part of the season, but Niko Kovac's team are progressing very nicely.

BVB pushed Bayern all the way in the Supercup, with the introduction of Gianni Konstantelias that evening creating real excitement ahead of the campaign.

The Greek star was then ruled out for long periods of the season after only one weekend of league football, and fresh fears emerged over Konstantinos Karetsas a week later as well.

But the momentum has not stalled at the Westfalenstadion, with Dortmund beating Paderborn 3-0 on Saturday.

The margin could have been even wider, with Serhou Guirassy seeing two goals ruled out, while Die Schwarzgelben remained firmly in control throughout the 90 minutes.

Fabio Silva is also underlining his value, with four goals and one assist from his five appearances in all competitions so far, and he burst through to score on his first Bundesliga start of the season on Saturday.

Felix Nmecha put the finishing touch on the afternoon, his overhead kick in front of the Sudtribune drawing attention, while in truth BVB stayed out of danger for most of the match.

Saturday's meeting with Stuttgart will offer the first major test of the campaign against a top-level rival, but based on how steadily they have been moving so far, there is no reason for panic at Borussia Dortmund.