BERLIN —
Bayern Munich opened a
four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga Saturday with a 2-1 home win over
Freiburg, who suffered their first defeat in any competition this season.
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Leon Goretzka put Bayern ahead with half an
hour gone at Munich's Allianz Arena before Robert Lewandowski bagged his 13th
Bundesliga goal this season to make it 2-0 with 15 minutes left.
Bayern have now scored 100 goals this
calendar year, one short of the record for a German club, set when Cologne
netted 101 times in 1977.
Freiburg substitute Janik Haberer
caused a few nervous looks in the Bayern ranks when the visitors finally beat
Manuel Neuer in stoppage time.
Second-placed Borussia Dortmund can trim
Bayern's lead when they play RB Leipzig away on Saturday evening.
In Munich, goal-scorer Goretzka praised
Neuer who repeatedly denied Freiburg with a string of top-class saves.
"When you walk out onto the pitch with
him in front of you, it is something special — you have 100 per cent trust in
him.
"He is a absolute machine and has been
world-class for years."
Under Christian Streich, the longest-serving
current Bundesliga coach, Freiburg have this season beaten Champions League
teams Dortmund and Wolfsburg, plus held RB Leipzig to a draw.
Yet they failed in their bid to claim a
first away win against Bayern, instead suffering a 19th defeat, plus three
draws, in now 22 attempts.
"Of course, you always want to keep an
unbeaten run, but if it was going to be tough anywhere, then it was going to be
here in Munich — it's always the hardest test," said Freiburg captain
Christian Guenter.
"I think we only had about ten chances
all game."
One of the visitors' best opportunities fell
to Freiburg striker Lucas Hoeler, who got in behind the defence early on, but
fired wide of the post.
Freiburg have the league's best defence,
which has conceded only nine goals in 11 games.
Yet Bayern took a deserved lead on half an
hour when Thomas Mueller's pass into the box was swept inside the post by
Goretzka.
Freiburg held firm thereafter until
Lewandowski, who marked his 100th Champions League appearance in midweek with a
hat-trick in the 5-2 win over Benfica, bagged his 22nd goal of the season in
all competitions.
Leroy Sane fired the ball towards goal and
Lewandowski lunged to steer his shot around Mark Flekken to double
Bayern's tally.
Bayern's France World Cup winner Corentin
Tolisso chipped the ball into Freiburg's net but Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting was
offside.
Haberer claimed Freiburg's consolation goal
when he bet Bayern defender Tanguy Nianzou and swept the ball into the far
corner.
Wolfsburg climbed to fourth in the table,
three points behind Freiburg, as Florian Kohfeldt earned his third straight win
since replacing Mark van Bommel with a 1-0 victory at home to Augsburg.
Former Manchester City forward
Lukas Nmecha
celebrated his first call up for Germany with the winning goal by heading in
off the post.
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