Bayern Munich has regained the lead in the Bundesliga on Saturday evening. The team of coach Hansi Flick was too strong for Borussia Dortmund at home with 4-2, which took a 0-2 lead early in the match via two goals from Erling Braut Haaland. Robert Lewandowski canceled the Norwegian’s hits and made sure that the backlog was cleared before the break. In the final phase, Bayern struck twice more, with which Lewandowski completed his hat-trick. Dortmund remains sixth and is four points behind in fourth place, which in any case gives access to the Champions League.
Bayern had good memories of the last five home matches with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, in which the team managed to score at least four times. This edition, however, went wrong very quickly, when Haaland got all the time and space after 74 seconds from Jérome Boateng to lash out and Manuel Neuer outwitted Manuel Neuer with a shot in the bottom right corner: 0-1. The visitors were exasperated and doubled the score within ten minutes, when the same Haaland was served from the left by Thorgan Hazard and was able to finish from close range: 0-2. The Norwegian increased his season total from seventeen to nineteen hits and now stands at 100 goals in 146 official duels.
The home side hardly seemed upset by the early goals, and cut the margin to one halfway through the first half, when Leroy Sané reached Lewandowski from the right and put the Pole on the board from close range 1-2. Just before that, Lewandowski already hit the side net. It all happened at a stage where Bayern took the initiative and almost tied it up through Kingsley Coman. The Frenchman cut to his left, but found goalkeeper Marwin Hitz’s feet in the short corner. The equalizer would still fall on the stroke of half time, after Coman was tapped on the edge of the penalty area by Mahmoud Dahoud. Lewandowski didn’t fail from the spot and sent Hitz to the wrong corner: 2-2.
In the second half there was significantly less to enjoy for both goals and Dortmund hit the side net via Hazard. The Belgian received a passed ball at the far post, but was inaccurate in the completion. On the other hand, Sané put the ball on a silver platter in front of Lewandowski, who also had no sight, and shot well wide. Just before that, Haaland left the field with an apparently minor ankle injury. When the game seemed to turn into a draw, Bayern struck twice more in a short time. Two minutes before the end, it was Leon Goretzka who suddenly lashed out after Thomas Meunier did not clear the ball sufficiently: 3-2. A minute later, Lewandowski ended the game with his third of the match, when the striker hit diagonally from the edge of the box: 4-2.