Bayern Munich claim hard-fought victory with Der Klassiker on the horizon

As Kingsley Coman’s looping bypass tumbled out of the sky into Leroy Sane’s stride, the partitions of black shirts that had packed Arminia Bielefeld’s well-guarded container parted.

With a unprecedented, unobstructed sight of Stefan Ortega’s goal, Bayern's quantity ten sliced his volley huge. Wheeling away in bewilderment, Sane's trendy and most obvious pass over of a game rife with squandered chances left the fortunate few allowed into the Allianz Arena dreading 'one of those nights' that so rarely come around for Bayern.

They needn't have concerned - in the event that they ever did this is. To paraphrase the immortal commentary line Clive Tyldesley delivered about Manchester United (on the catastrophic value of the Bavarians themselves in 1999): Can Bayern Munich rating? They continually score.

And so it proved. As the sport tumbled into its final 20 minutes, Jamal Musiala picked out Thomas Muller lurking on the threshold of Bielefeld's box. Before the swarm of site visitors may want to descend upon the ball, Bayern's Raumdeuter performed a first-time pass to Sane, allowing time to steady himself earlier than belting a stunning opener into the pinnacle corner from the D.

Bayern's report-breaking 102nd Bundesliga aim of the calendar yr (it's nevertheless November!) extended the club's scoring streak to 60 consecutive league video games. In truth, the remaining time a Bayern facet didn't discover the net regionally, Julian Nagelsmann was prowling the competition's dugout for a 0-0 with RB Leipzig in February 2020.

Squeezing out a 1-0 win towards the second-worst team within the division is hardly ever grounds for jubilation at Bayern. However, it become an an increasing number of crucial victory within the context of the season.

Bolstered by using the go back of Erling Haaland, Borussia Dortmund leapfrogged Bayern at the Bundesliga's summit with a three-1 win at Wolfsburg earlier on Saturday, underlining the undertaking they pose beforehand of a hotly expected Der Klassiker next weekend.

"It's an exceedingly essential healthy for us due to the fact we don't have the four-point lead anymore - and in view of next week too," Nagelsmann warned in his pre-healthy press conference. "We realize we need to deliver and need to deliver. We want to expose that from the beginning. We must carry out to our limit."

Bayern's single-intention margin of victory - which restored a one-point lead within the table - betrays the dominance Die Roten brought towards obdurate fighters. DSC can be ensconced inside the division's relegation region but they've allow in as many dreams as Bayern's closest domestic challengers thus far this season - equalling Dortmund's 19 conceded.

Both of Bayern's previous Bundesliga defeats beneath Nagelsmann have come in the simplest two games they've dominated possession to this kind of suffocating volume (greater than 70%) it turns into a part of the competition's method.