Berlin, Feb. 12 (BNA): Rising club Bochum surprised Bayern Munich and the Bundesliga with a 4-2 victory over the Bavarian force on Saturday, preventing the league leaders from winning by 12 points, according to the Associated Press.
Bochum had to come from behind to do so, after Robert Lewandowski’s opener brought the visitors back into memories of the 7-0 win when the two teams met in Munich in September.
But Thomas Reis’s side responded with four goals in the first half, three of them in a six-minute period when he let Bayern sway Bochum’s intensity.
Lewandowski opened the scoring in the ninth minute, when he managed to control the Kingsley Coman ball and pressed it past Bochum goalkeeper Michael Esser.
Bochum responded five minutes later via Christopher Antwi-Adge, who dodged Niklas Sule and let him fly inside the post after being groomed by Gerrit Holtmann.
Bochum earned a penalty when Dayot Obekano’s outstretched arm saved Elvis’ Rexbecag cross. Jurgen Lucadia converted the penalty kick in the 38th minute.
Then Christian Gamboa scored a goal of the season two minutes later, when he played the ball through Koeman’s legs and one-two with Patrick Osterhag – who returned the ball with his heel – before firing a missile with a shot into the net. corner.
As if to show it wasn’t a coincidence, Holtmann repeated the feat from the other side four minutes later, playing the ball between Upemakano’s legs before firing another superb shot into the far corner.
It brought back memories of Bochum’s near-success on the star-studded Bayern side in September 1976, when the visitors battled four goals to a 6-5 victory and Uli Hoeness scored the winning goal in the 89th minute. It was his second goal. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Gerd Muller were among the other scorers at Bayern Munich.
This time, Bochum kept the win.
Two goals for the home team were disallowed for offside after the break, before Armel Bela Kuchap cleared the goal to deny Lewandowski the other end.
Esser was the next to deny Lewandowski in the 63rd minute, before the Polish star finally found his way in the 75th minute. That was Lewandowski’s 26th goal in 22 games this season.
Lewandowski hit the crossbar with a free kick in the 88th minute. It was as close as the defending champions got into the fight.
Hertha Berlin lost to last-placed Greuther Fürth 2-1, Borussia Mönchengladbach eased their relegation fears with a 3-2 victory over Augsburg, and Wolfsburg beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0. Also, Freiburg came back from behind to draw 1-1 with Mainz.
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