BAYERN 5 - 0 WOLFSBURG
Bayern Munich go top as RB Leipzig lose unbeaten run
Ancelotti's team took advantage of the shock loss of Leipzig to draw level with the surprise package on points, ahead on goal difference. Reus was the saviour for Dortmund.
RB Leipzig, the team that has taken most by surprise this season fell to their first loss allowing the powerhouse that is Bayern Munich to overtake them at the top of the Bundesliga.
Bayern top as Leipzig lose to table-proppers
Robert Lewandowski netted twice as Bayern Munich returned to the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday with a 5-0 win over Wolfsburg after RB Leipzig lost their unbeaten record.
Leipzig's shock 1-0 defeat at bottom side Ingolstadt, who finished with ten men, ended their three-week stint as leaders as Carlo Ancelotti's Bayern cut the three-point gap and regained top spot on goal difference with both teams on 33 points.
Second-placed RB had their 13-match unbeaten run ended - a record for a club at the start of their first Bundesliga season - as coach Ralph Hasenhuettl endured a horror return to Ingolstadt, who he left after last season. Ingolstadt's Australia striker Mathew Leckie was sent off for two yellow cards in quick succession in the tense final stages. But his team held on for the win which took them off the bottom leaving Darmstadt, who lost 1-0 at Freiburg, now last.
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Bayern host Leipzig on December 21 at Munich's Allianz Arena, where the hosts romped to a heavy win over Wolfsburg. The 2015 German Cup winners have fallen from grace and defeat leaves Wolfsburg 15th, only clear of the relegation zone on goal difference.
Head coach Valerien Ismael, who took over after Dieter Hecking was sacked in October, left Germany's attacking midfielder Julian Draxler out of the squad. The 23-year-old cost 35 million euros ($37.3m) from Schalke in August 2015 and Wolfsburg say they are open to sell Draxler in January's winter break.
Bayern started with Jerome Boateng on the bench with a shoulder injury and his centre-back partner Mats Hummels was missing with gastroenteritis. Arjen Robben opened the scoring by cutting in from the right and curling his superb shot around Wolfsburg's goalkeeper Diego Benaglio on 18 minutes. Lewandowski netted five goals in a record nine minutes in the same fixture in September 2015 and the Poland hot-shot needed just 21 minutes to also get on the scoresheet.
To compound Wolfsburg's problems, defender Marcel Schaefer went off with a knee injury after 23 minutes as it finished 2-0 at the break. Lewandowski added his second on 58 minutes, Mueller grabbed his first league goal of the season by firing home Robben's pass on 76 minutes then Brazil winger Douglas Costa added Bayern's fifth just before the whistle.
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Fresh from their 2-2 Champions League draw at Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund needed a 90th-minute Marco Reus goal to rescue their 1-1 draw at ten-man Cologne. Cologne took the lead when Germany defender Jonas Hector fired in a long-range free-kick and Artjoms Rudnevs slipped his marker, heading past Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller on 28 minutes.
But Reus rescued a point when he cooly slotted Adrian Ramos' cross for a point which kept Dortmund sixth as Cologne had Salih Ozcan sent off late on for a second yellow.
Hamburg stay in the bottom three despite their 1-0 home win over Augsburg as both sides finished with ten men. The hosts took the lead when Nicolai Mueller hit the post and Serbia international Filip Kostic converted the rebound on 68 minutes.
Hamburg had Lewis Holtby sent off just before the break for lashing out after Augsburg's midfielder Dominik Kohr's rough tackle. But Kohr was also shown a red when he earned his second yellow soon after.
On Friday, Hoffenheim were held to a goalless draw at Eintracht Frankfurt but are now the only unbeaten team in Germany's top flight.