BERLIN, Oct 31: Robert Lewandowski scored twice as Bayern Munich restored some lost pride with a 5-2 win at Union Berlin in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
Bayern was smarting from Wednesday’s 5-0 loss at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the cup, and it rebounded by ending Union’s 21-game unbeaten run at home.
It was a clinical performance from the table-topping visitors, with Lewandowski starring early on and Leroy Sané getting the third goal, before Kingsley Coman and Thomas Müller made sure of the result after Niko Gießelmann and Julian Ryerson had kept Union’s hopes alive.
Nagelsmann will have been pleased with Bayern’s opening 35 minutes, with the team cruising after a penalty and free kick from Lewandowski before Sané made it 3-0.
Gießelmann pulled one back in the 43rd. The roles were reversed after the break with Union dominating and pushing for more until Coman struck a brilliant goal on Bayern’s counterattack in the 60th.
But Ryerson pulled one back in the 64th, set up by fellow substitute Kevin Behrens seconds after they came on.
Bayern made three substitutions in response, with one of them, Upamecano, setting up Müller for the fifth to seal it in the 79th.
Brazilian defender Tuta scored with the last touch in injury time to earn Eintracht Frankfurt a 1-1 draw with visiting Leipzig in the late game.
Emil Forsberg should have sealed the result for Leipzig minutes before, but he fired over.
Leipzig’s goal came from a corner that should not have been awarded in the first half. Leipzig’s Josko Gvardiol was last to touch the ball before it went out of play but the corner was awarded and Yussuf Poulsen duly scored when Willi Orban sent the corner on. (AP)
