Pep Guardiola said Bayern Munich would toast their 5-0 rout of Dinamo Zagreb during yesterday’s annual visit to Oktoberfest after Robert Lewandowski’s phenomenal goal-scoring run continued with a hat-trick.
Bayern romped to the top of Group F in the Champions League as Dinamo’s 45-match unbeaten run was halted in emphatic fashion.
Lewandowski again ran riot at the Allianz Arena as Mario Goetze and Douglas Costa also netted to put Bayern top of their group following their 3-0 win against Olympiakos two weeks ago before they face Arsenal away in three weeks.
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Poland hot-shot Lewandowski has now scored 10 goals in his past three games after netting five in just nine spectacular minutes of Bayern’s 5-1 hammering of VfL Wolfsburg on Tuesday last week before claiming two more in Saturday’s 3-0 win against FSV Mainz 05.
Bayern are to host Borussia Dortmund on Sunday in a top-of-the table clash in the Bundesliga, but their Spanish head coach said they would enjoy a few beers at Munich’s annual bumper beer festival before focusing on their next match.
The Spaniard put Lewandowski’s success down to the width on Bayern’s game from fleet-footed wingers Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman.
“That was a good team performance over the whole 90 minutes,” Guardiola said. “Six points means we’re on the right path. Tomorrow we’re off to Oktoberfest, after that we’ll have time to think about Dortmund.”
“With Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman our playing style is much better, we can play out wide more and the strikers have more chances,” he said. “Even our counterattack game was very good.”
Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said the game was over after 30 minutes as the hosts took a 4-0 lead against a woeful Zagreb team, whose defense capitulated in their first defeat since November last year.
“We played in a very concentrated fashion from the start and when you take your goal chances, the game was over after 30 minutes,” Lahm said.
Lewandowski, the Bundesliga’s top scorer, will be hoping to add to his tally against ex-club Dortmund on Sunday.
“I am happy to get three more goals, but the main thing is that we won 5-0,” Lewandowski said. “It doesn’t matter how many goals I score as long as we keep picking up points.”
“The whole team played well, which creates opportunities for me,” he said.
With 10 goals in eight days, Lewandowski is in incredible form.
“He’s had an unbelievable week behind him,” said Lahm, who joked that he expects at least three goals from Lewandowski per game from now on.
Zagreb dropped to third in the group and Dinamo’s coach Zoran Mamic admitted his side were outplayed.
“Bayern have showed how strong they are and we caught them on a very good day, they were better than us in all departments,” Mamic said. “The difference in quality was huge and we were brutally punished.”
“They have a lot of good players, they are all fast, and it’s hard to commit tactical fouls against them,” he said. “They deserved to win by that margin.”
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