Bundesliga: Bayern get off to a spectacular start against Dortmund – and decide the top match in nine minutes

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Bayern star Harry Kane (right) in a duel with Borussia Dortmund's Marco Reus

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FC Bayern Munich won the top match of the Bundesliga against Borussia Dortmund 4-0 (2-0) on Saturday evening and thus reacted to the embarrassing exit in the DFB Cup against third-division Saarbrücken. Dayot Upamecano (4th minute) and star striker Harry Kane (9th, 72nd, 92nd) scored for the record champions in Dortmund.

Bayern are now top of the table (26 points) from Bayer Leverkusen (28), while Dortmund are fourth (21). BVB have been waiting for a league win against their rivals from Munich for five years.

After the 1-0 win over Hoffenheim in the German Cup, Mats Hummels, Marcel Sabitzer, Donyell Malen and Niclas Füllkrug came into the starting line-up for Niklas Süle, Gio Reyna, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Youssoufa Moukoko.

Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel even made seven changes compared to the cup defeat. Only goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Kim Min-Jae, Alphonso Davies and Leroy Sané remained in the first eleven. Joshua Kimmich was suspended, Mathijs injured. Instead, Leon Goretzka and Dayot Upamecano returned.

It was Upamecano who gave Bayern the best possible start to the game: Sané crossed the ball into the six-yard box from the first corner, Upamecano scored with a header (4'). And it went straight on. After Munich won the ball, Sané backheeled to Goretzka, who crossed the midfield and passed back to Sané, who outran Hummels and only had to cross for Kane: 0:2 after nine minutes.

BVB attack remained harmless

As a result, the guests slowed down a bit, Dortmund came to shots that were hardly dangerous at first. Brandt tried from 23 yards, but shot wide (23'), as did Reus (26'). Instead, Kane made the pulse of the BVB fans soar again when he hit the left post (32'). Sané's follow-up shot failed to materialise, Kane had been offside.

After a chip ball from Kingsley Coman, Goretzka tried a drop kick (36') and a header (38'), but failed, as did Malen, who narrowly missed the follow-up goal from twelve metres out seconds before the break (45'+2').

After the restart, Dortmund intervened more actively, Reus failed to beat Neuer from eleven yards out (56th), BVB keeper Gregor Kobel saved from Sané at the other end (58th). Although the game was now more balanced, Kane made it 3-0 in the 72nd minute – and even added to it. Dortmund had previously been unbeaten in 17 league games across the season. The team's last defeat came in April when they lost 2-4 in Munich.

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