A hat-trick by Robert Lewandowski helped defending champions Bayern Munich brush Werder Bremen aside with a 6-0 win in Friday’s opening match of the new German league season
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Berlin: A hat-trick by Robert Lewandowski helped defending champions Bayern Munich brush Werder Bremen aside with a 6-0 win in Friday’s opening match of the new German league season.
Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring the second goal during their Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen at Allianz Arena in Munich on Friday. Pic/Getty Images
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Lewandowski, the Bundesliga’s top-scorer last season with 30 goals, could have finished with five as Bayern ran riot.
“I’m just happy I scored and that we got the win,” Lewandowski told broadcaster ARD and revealed he finished the game with a hole in his goal-scoring right boot.
After Xabi Alonso scored the first goal of the 2016/17 campaign at Munich’s Allianz Arena, Lewandowski netted either side of the break before captain Philipp Lahm added a fourth.
Franck Ribery fired the fourth and Lewandowski then converted a penalty to claim his third and Munich’s sixth.
Having also hammered Hamburg 5-0 in last season’s opening game, this was another emphatic win as Bayern Munich look to
win a fifth consecutive Bundesliga title.