Robert Lewandowski made his case for the Ballon d’Or by scoring his 10th Bundesliga goal in nine games this season for leaders Bayern Munich in Rome 4-0 at home to Hoffenheim on Saturday. After claiming a Bundesliga record 41 goals last season, Lewandowski picked up where he left off. The Poland striker is among the favorites to win the Ballon d’Or on 29 November, having been named FIFA’s men’s player of 2020. Lewandowski showed his class with a brilliant strike after Serge Gnabry gave the hosts a first-half lead in front of 60,000. Fans at the Allianz Arena, the largest home crowd since the pandemic hit Germany in March 2020.
Replacements Erik Maxim Chopo-Motting and Kingsley Koman scored late goals to put Bayern at the top of the points table ahead of Borussia Dortmund, who won 3-1 at Arminia Bielefeld.
Bayern dominate even though head coach Julian Nagelsmann is staying at home after testing positive for Covid-19.
“It was a deserved victory. The team played very strong football for 30 minutes,” said Nagelsmann’s assistant coach Dino Topmöller.
“After going 2-0 up, the defense lacked sharpness. In the end, we raised a gear.”
“We’ll all be happy if Julian comes back as soon as possible.”
Gnabry’s first goal came when he had already denied one. Lewandowski also had a boundary off Hoffenheim goalkeeper Oliver Baumann to see the ball flying wide of the post.
Bayern eventually dominated in 16 minutes when Jamal Musiyala played the ball to Gnabry, who fired between Baumann’s legs for his sixth league goal this season.
Lewandowski made it 2-0 with a fine finish from the edge of the field.
The floodgates opened after eight minutes of chupo-moting and then Koman drove home to complete the route.
Dortmund responds to AJAX route
Borussia Dortmund made a comeback in their midweek Champions League loss against Armenia Bielefeld at Ajax.
Emre Can and Mats Hummels claimed the first half goal before England midfielder Jude Bellingham dribbling the defenders, then chipped the ball from a tight angle.
“We wanted to answer the game here on Tuesday, which was unfortunately a step back,” Hummels admitted.
Regular penalty-taker Erling could step in to replace an early spot-kick, due to a hip injury with Brut Haaland.
Hummels produced a fine volley from the edge of the field and made it 2–0 at half-time, before Bellingham took the third 18 minutes from time. Striker Fabian Kloss converted a late Bielefeld penalty.
Freiburg remained the only unbeaten team in Germany’s top flight and moved up to third place with a 2–0 win at Wolfsburg, thanks to goals from Philipp Leonhardt and Lukas Hoehler.
Wolfsburg won their first four league games in mid-September under Mark van Bommel, but four straight losses left them in eighth place.
Second-half goals by Emil Forsberg, Yusuf Poulsen, Dominic Soboszlai, who set up the fourth for 18-year-old Hugo Novoa Ramos on his league debut, helped RB Leipzig claim a 4-1 home win over bottom side Grüther looked back. Furth.
Wins eased pressure on US head coach Jesse Marsh after Leipzig lost their first three Champions League games, including Tuesday’s 3-2 loss at Paris Saint-Germain.
Hertha Berlin later built on last weekend’s win at Eintracht Frankfurt with a 1-0 home win over Borussia Moenchengladbach thanks to Marco Richter’s first-half winner.
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