Mainz 0-3 Bayern Munich: Lewandowski scores 100th Bundesliga goal
The striker made it seven goals in a week with a
double on Saturday, while Kingsley Coman also
found the back of the net after scoring his first
goal for the club last weekend
Robert Lewandowski reached a century of
Bundesliga goals to help Bayern Munich secure
their best start to a league season by comfortably
beating Mainz 3-0 at the Coface Arena.
In his 168th league appearance, the Poland
international picked up where he left off following
his record-breaking five-goal haul in the 5-1
thrashing of Wolfsburg on Tuesday by netting a
second-half double.
Thomas Muller had earlier missed a first-half
penalty before Lewandowski broke the deadlock
and reached his milestone with a 51st minute
header. He is the fastest non-German player to
reach 100 league goals.
Lewandowski then rounded off a neat move 12
minutes later for his seventh goal in two matches.
Coman added a third when he arrived at the far
post to steer home Douglas Costa's cross,
as Bayern made it seven wins from seven to
extend their 100 per cent record at the top of the
table.
The Bundesliga champions had won their previous
six meetings with Mainz and were very much on
the front foot in the opening stages.
And Muller was handed the perfect opportunity to
put Bayern ahead from the penalty spot after 20
minutes.
Coman collected a wonderful cross-field pass and
cut into the area from the wing, before being
brought down by a desperate challenge from
Pablo de Blasis.
Muller seemed to hesitate as he stepped up to
take the resulting spot-kick and cleared the
crossbar with his poor effort.
Mainz struggled to really gain a foothold in the
contest, though they did have a good chance of
their own to take the lead seven minutes later
when Yoshinori Muto pulled a drilled shot
just wide of the near post.
The visitors, though, continued to dominate and
Costa embarked on a strong run towards the
penalty area before letting fly with a powerful 25-
yard effort that needed goalkeeper Loris Karius to
push it over.
The deadlock was finally broken six minutes after
the restart when Lewandowski pulled away from
his marker to meet Coman's cross and plant his
header perfectly beyond the reach of Karius.
Lewandowski doubled his tally soon after when
some crisp and incisive play saw him latch onto a
throughball from substitute Arturo Vidal before
rounding Karius and sliding home.
Bayern put the game beyond any doubt when
some good work from Costa down the left led to
him pulling the ball across the area for Coman to
latch onto and make it 3-0.
Mainz were very much beaten by that point,
although they went close to grabbing a consolation
when Christian Clemens rattled the crossbar from
a tight angle.
Lewandowski saw a hat-trick chance go begging
when he pounced on an error by the Mainz
defence, who just about recovered to prevent the
Pole from netting again after a neat one-two with
Xabi Alonso.
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