Bayern Move Top After Edging BVB In Five-Goal Thriller
08 November, 2020
Bundesliga
Result: Borussia Dortmund 2-3 Bayern Munich
Date: 08 November 2020
Venue: Signal-Iduna Park
Bayern Munich climbed into the top of the Bundesliga table after defeating Borussia Dortmund in a five-goal thriller on Saturday evening.
Bayern made two changes from midweek, with Bouna Sarr and Leon Goretzka coming to the fore while Dortmund recalled Mats Hummels, Jadon Sancho and Marco Reus.
The game was lively in the first stages as Goretzka came near giving the Bavarians the opener in the 14th minute with a header at the trunk post that produced a breathtaking save from goalkeeper Roman Burki.
The visitors thought that they had got the breakthrough in the 25th minute after Robert Lewandowski turned home Serge Gnabry's low cross, but the goal was disallowed for offside.
Bayern coach Hans Flick was forced right into a first-half change 10 minutes prior to the break when Joshua Kimmich picked up a knock and had to create way for 2018 World Cup winner Corentin Tolisso.
With the overall game seemingly headed to the break without goals, Reus broke the deadlock for Dortmund on the stroke of half-time with a neat finish at the near post from Raphael Guerreiro's cut-back.
Hans-Dieter Flick's charges then levelled matters in first-half stoppage time after David Alaba's looping strike on the edge of the box took an awful deflection off the wall and swerved in to the top corner
The Bavarians punished Dortmund for missing an early on chance after the break as Lewandowski got his usual goal against his former side three minutes in to the second stanza, nodding home Lucas Hernandez's cross.
Kingsley Coman was unlucky never to add a thrid goal for Bayern two minutes later with a robust low drive from the edge of the box that came off underneath post, with Burki well beaten.
While Lucien Favre's troops kept missing chances, second-half substitute Leroy Sane made extended the visitors' ead within the last ten minutes with an accurate left-footed curler in to the bottom corner after cutting inside from the right.
Erling Haaland put the overall game on the edge within the last seven minutes after pulling an objective back for Dortmund with strike in to the gaping net after rounding goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
Lewandowski thought he previously buried the overall game for Bayern with the fourth goal in stoppage time, however the goal was disallowed for offside in the build-up, although the Bavarians held on to move two points clear at the top of the log.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za
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