Lewandowski hits hat-trick as 10-man Bayern thrash Stuttgart
Lewandowski hits hat-trick as 10-man Bayern thrash Stuttgart
BERLIN (AFP) - Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick on Saturday as Bayern Munich romped to a 4-0 home win over Stuttgart despite having Alphonso Davies sent off in the 12th minute.
The result keeps Bayern four points clear at the top after second-placed RB Leipzig won 1-0 at Arminia Bielefeld on Friday.
Lewandowski has now scored 35 league goals this season to leave him just five short of Gerd Mueller s all-time Bundesliga record of 40, set in 1971/72.
Davies saw an early red card at the Allianz Arena for a tackle on the ankle of Stuttgart s Japan midfielder Wataru Endo.
Bayern responded with a burst of three goals in five minutes.
Lewandowski beat two defenders to tap home a Serge Gnabry cross on 18 minutes.
A superb exchange of passes between Leroy Sane and Thomas Mueller set up Gnabry to score Bayern s second on 22 minutes.
Just 77 seconds later, Lewandowski headed home Mueller s cross and the Poland star wrapped up his hat-trick six minutes before half-time with a low shot.
