Bayern Munich opened a three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga on Friday with a 3-1 win at bottom side Greuther Fuerth despite being ...
Bayern Munich opened a three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga on Friday with a 3-1 win at bottom side Greuther Fuerth despite being a man down for most of the second-half after Benjamin Pavard was sent off.
First-half goals by Thomas Mueller and Joshua Kimmich put Bayern 2-0 up before Pavard was shown a straight red card just three minutes into the second-half.
Fuerth midfielder Sebastian Griesbeck scored an own goal when he got his boot to the ball just ahead of Robert Lewandowski, who fell one match short of equalling Gerd Mueller’s record of scoring in 16 consecutive league games from 1969-’70.
The loudest cheer of the night came when the hosts grabbed a late consolation goal as replacement striker Cedric Itten scored to delight the sell-out 11,730-strong home crowd.
“It was not a brilliant performance, but we had the game under control even when we were a man down,” Bayern goal-scorer Kimmich told DAZN.
The result leaves Bayern clear in the table but closest rivals Wolfsburg can close the gap with a win at Hoffenheim on Saturday.
Fuerth count former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger as one of their most famous fans and head coach Stefan Leitl had called for “courage” against Bayern, who thrashed strugglers Bochum...
