Manama, January 23 (BNA): Bayern Munich beat Hertha Berlin and regained the top spot in the German League with six points, with a 4-1 victory on Sunday.
Visitors should have won more than that with a bunch of missed opportunities. He also saw two goals rightly disqualified through VAR, according to the Associated Press.
Corentin Tolisso and Thomas Müller scored in the first half before Leroy Sané and Serge Gnabry rewarded Bayern’s dominance in the second half.
Substitute Jurgen Ekellenkamp scored a goal seconds after entering Hertha’s consolation goal, but the result did not reflect a match in which the host team scored four attempts on goal compared to the visitors’ 30.
Leipzig beat Wolfsburg 2-0 at the start of the match, extending the visiting team without a win to 11 games in all competitions.
Wolfsburg’s relegation is good news for Hertha, who remains just three points above the relegation zone, one point behind Wolfsburg.
Local media reported that around 80 Hertha fans broke up the team’s training session on Saturday to reprimand the players after their German Cup defeat at home to rivals Union Berlin on Wednesday.
A DJ played in an almost empty stadium before kick-off – only 3,000 people were allowed in the 74,475-seater Olympics due to measures taken against the coronavirus.
Unlike Hertha, Bayern had a full week to prepare for the match as there was no distraction in the German Cup. Borussia Monchengladbach lost the Bavarian force 5-0 in the previous round.
Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann managed to call up an almost complete squad, only Leon Goretzka and Alfonso Davies missing. Hertha counterpart Typhoon Korkut gave 17-year-old Linus Gechter his debut in the Bundesliga.
Bayern needed less than two minutes to score, although Tolisso’s goal was disallowed for offside after a VAR check.
Kingsley Coman’s cross for Tolisso to head the opener at 25, ending a brief encouraging period for Hertha.
Bayern’s attacks resumed and Muller scored before the break when Hertha’s defense failed to track down with a Joshua Kimmich free kick.
Vladimir Darrida may have made the match exciting when he missed Hertha’s best chance from close range after Maximilian Mittelstadt’s cross from the left.
Bayern maintained their grip on the match and Korkut responded with three changes before the hour mark, which led to Frederic Andre Bjornkan signing for his Bundesliga debut.
And the loss continued to waste opportunities until the best player in Hertha, goalkeeper Alexander Schullo, gifted Sani the third goal in the 75th minute when he tried to play the ball across the goal.
Gnabry got the fourth goal four minutes later, before Ecklenkamp scored the ball with his first touch to lift the ball over Manuel Neuer after the Bayern Munich goalkeeper saved the effort of fellow substitute Stefan Jovic.
Sane thought he finished the match on brilliance as he scored the best goal in the 89th minute. But a VAR check showed that he briefly controlled the ball with his arm before letting it fly into the far post.
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