With a remarkable 4-3 victory over Holstein Kiel on Saturday, Bayern Munich extended their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to nine points.
Bayern led 4-0 as Harry Kane scored twice, but Finn Porath replied for Kiel before Steven Skrzybski’s stoppage-time double threatened to steal an unlikely point.
Around the Allianz Arena, there was cheerleading after the full-time whistle.
“None of us are happy that we won 4-3 here”, Jamal Musiala, scorer of Bayern’s first goal, told Sky Sport. “We must have the mindset to work for 90 minutes without giving up goals.”
The way his team ended the game also irritated Bayern coach Vincent Kompany.
“It was a pretty complete game until the 80th minute. But we also played against a team that was fighting for every moment”, Kompany told reporters.
“I thought we started the second half really well, but in terms of how we finished the game, that’s something we’ll have to review with the players”.
With Bayern’s closest title rivals, Bayer Leverkusen, hosting Hoffenheim on Sunday, Kompany’s side took their chance to create a gulf between them and the champions.
In the 19th minute, Musiala scored his 10th league goal of the year through a quick exchange of passes between Joshua Kimmich, Michael Olise, and then Musiala, who scored.
With less than a minute of stoppage time left, Bayern delivered a devastating blow to Kiel, who had almost made it to half-time.
Kingsley Coman beat his man on the left and lofted a cross past Kane, who was unable to miss from a close range. Kane scored another in the first minute of the second half, heading home Raphael Guerreiro’s pinpoint cross.
It was Kane’s 55th league goal in 50 appearances, another Bundesliga goalscoring record that Kane has rewritten.
Olise’s half-time replacement, Serge Gnabry, made a great first-half goal, sending a high ball under his feet with his right foot and striking in with his left.
Even after the fourth official indicated five more minutes, Porath’s beautifully executed strike, which appeared little more than a consolation, was fired back.
Bayern were almost embarrassed by Skrzybski’s late brace, but the hosts limped over the line as beaten-ups.
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Dortmund win before Kovac begins ,
In their final game since Niko Kovac was fired, Borussia Dortmund defeated struggling Heidenheim 2-1 to claim a win.
Dortmund took the lead when Heidenheim couldn’t clear a corner, and Serhou Guirassy fired a close goal.
The Guinean striker scored five goals in his last four games, which came after a double in the Champions League against Shakhtar Donetsk in midweek.
Heidenheim occupying the relegation play-off spot with their previous 14 league games, which included a win.
Max Beier’s difficult finish appeared to be easy in the 63rd minute when Ramy Bensebaini drilled a low cross in from the left.
Dortmund became their own worst enemies, conceding 18 seconds after the restart. Frans Kraetzig found space down the left and cut back for Mathias Honsak, whose first-time finish cut Dortmund’s lead in half.
Dortmund held on to end a four-game winless streak in the Bundesliga by overcoming some late pressure to record their first league victory since December 22.
In another game, Borussia Moenchengladbach defeated Stuttgart 2-1 in a late goal by Germany international Tim Kleindienst.
Nathan N’Goumou, a Frenchman, rifled into the top of the net before the break, but a Nico Elvedi own goal set the game level.
But a slick Gladbach counter-attack saw Lukas Ullrich pick out Kleindienst, who tapped in the winner.
Freiburg picked up a 1-0 win at bottom-placed Bochum, with another Frenchman, Kiliann Sildillia, nodding in a corner for his first Bundesliga goal.
When late strike from Augsburg teen Mert Komur sealed a 1-1 draw for St Pauli, they were denied a victory.
