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Munich (AP) - Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Müller led FC Bayern Munich to the first round championship of the Bundesliga after the cup shock.

In the 2: 1 (1: 0) on Sunday against SC Freiburg, world footballer Lewandowski got the Munich back on track with his 21st goal of the season (7th minute) and assist king Thomas Müller (74th) after the last two competitive games bankruptcies.

In between, Super Joker Nils Petersen annoyed Bayern with the equalizer on his first touch (62nd).

In stoppage time, the record champions were lucky when Petersen hit the crossbar.

After losing points to the three pursuers Leipzig, Leverkusen and Dortmund, the Munich team expanded their lead in the table.

Before the last first half of the season, they have four points ahead of Leipzig and can therefore no longer be displaced from first place in the first half of the season.

Coach Hansi Flick was pleased about the reaction of his ensemble, which had been changed to six positions.

With a lot of effort, more volume on the pitch and more speed, defensive vulnerabilities remained.

Manuel Neuer has to wait for his 196th clean sheet game in the league.

Lewandowski screwed up his record yield in the first half of a season, Müller his template balance.

His pass to Lewandowski at 1-0 after a quick direct combination with Serge Gnabry was the 125th assists in the Bundesliga, the most assists of all players since the beginning of this data collection in 2004. Even before this Lewandowski goal it would have been after an air duel between him Manuel Gulde can give hand penalty.

But referee Christian Dingert did not give it, according to the pictures (6th).

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The Freiburg team needed some time to recover from the lightning deficit and Baptiste Santamaria's early injury.

But coach Christian Streich's team found their way into the game better and, with the self-confidence from five wins in a row, played an interesting game with the Munich team, defeated by Borussia Mönchengladbach a week ago (3-2).

A shot by Roland Sallai rolled just past the Bayern goal (17th).

Bitter for Freiburg: After the break, Santamaria substitute Amir Abrashi also had to go out (54th).

Gnabry caught it at Bayern, for whom a long-range shot with a quick parade by Florian Müller was the last action of the game (25th).

In an entertaining Bundesliga game, Lewandowski and Müller had the decision on their feet shortly before the Petersen equalization.

Lewandowski hit the crossbar, Müller failed on the second attempt at keeper Müller (59th).

Petersen punished this three minutes later when he was there after a corner from Nicolas Höfler.

He expanded his Joker record series to 28 goals.

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But unlike in Mönchengladbach and the penalty knockout in Kiel, Bayern hit back successfully.

Sané put on for Müller, who after his preliminary work at 1-0 this time enforced.

Freiburg didn't give up, it stayed exciting until the end.

But after conceding a goal in stoppage time in Kiel, Munich did not give away the victory this time with luck.

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