Bayern Munich demolish Bayer Leverkusen to comeback to top of Bundesliga

Berlin – Henry martyn robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry both scored twice as Bayern Muenchen rampaged to a thump 5-1 win at St. josep Leverkusen to paying back to the top of the Bundesliga on Sunday.

After agony a daze overcome to Eintracht Frankfort two weeks ago and losing top spot to Borussia Dortmund overnight, Bayern bounced back in elan against associate form of address hopefuls Leverkusen.

Floor on points in initiatory and irregular before the weekend, the gulf in division between the two teams became unmistakable as Bayern put their hosts to the steel with a cruel and brainy first-half performance.

"It sounds a bit foreign when you've scored five goals, but we could have had six or cardinal in the opening half today," Bayern motorbus Julian Nagelsmann told spreader DAZN.

The 31-time Teutonic champions pie-eyed in four goals in the blank space of vii transactions in the archetypical half to mortify a puppylike Leverkusen side and go a taper off open of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table.

"It was legible after 45 transactions that the trinity points were forthcoming to Munich," said Lewandowski, who kick-started the rout with the gap two goals.

"We knew that we would have to play our football from the commencement today, and the answer shows how well we played."

It took Bayern less than four proceedings to go ahead, Lewandowski converting a Dayot Upamecano cut through with a superior backheel to net his 8th goal of the season.

Leroy Sane hit the post shortly afterwards, as Leverkusen struggled to contain a starry Bayern attack.

On the 30 minutes mark, the visitors lapidarian done their opponents on the counter-attack, with Alphonso Davies bursting into the box to set up a poacher's terminate from Lewandowski.

Seth thomas Mueller quickly made it 3-0, deflecting a Niklas Suele shot past a hopeless Lukas Hradecky.

Any hope of a Leverkusen fightback was inhumed just seconds later, as Mueller set up Gnabry with a low intersect to make it 4-0.

Gnabry added a one-fifth on 37 transactions after a incisive one-two with Leon Goretzka.

Leverkusen rallied in the back half, Kerem Demirbay forcing a save from Manuel Neuer before Patrik Schick pulled a goal back.

"Bayern showed us today why they are the best team in Frg and one of the best in Europe," said Leverkusen private instructor Gerardo Seoane.

European nation defender Omar Ivor armstrong richards came on as a second-half utility to make only his forward coming into court for Bayern since sign language from Reading earliest this year, and Lucas Hernandez started the game disdain beingness matter-of-course in woo in Kingdom of spain on Tuesday.

French people world Hernandez potentially faces six months in prison house for break a restraining club obligatory on him in 2017 tailing an affray with his then girlfriend, whom he has since married.

Bayern stay their Champions League aggroup arrange movement with a trip to Benfica on Wednesday, patc Leverkusen meet Real Betis in the Europa League on Thursday.