Lewandowski hits hat-trick due to 10-gentleman Bayern thrash Stuttgart
Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick on Saturday seeing as Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich romped to a good 4-0 home make an impression on Stuttgart despite losing Alphonso Davies to a good red card found in the 12th minute.
Stuttgart leader Thomas Hitzlsperger described Lewandowski's performance as "something above top notch".
The result keeps Bayern four points clear at the very top after second-placed RB Leipzig won 1-0 at Arminia Bielefeld on Friday.
Lewandowski has scored 35 league goals this year to keep him just five brief of Gerd Mueller's all-period Bundesliga record of 40, occur 1971/72.
"I simply just keep thinking from video game to game rather than just how many more goals I have to rating," stated Lewandowski, who netted along with his left foot, right feet and head for a 'perfect' hat-trick.
Davies received an early on red card in the Allianz Arena for a deal with on the ankle of Stuttgart's Japan midfielder Wataru Endo.
"From then on we woke up," stated Lewandowski. Bayern responded with a burst of three goals in 5 minutes.
Lewandowski beat two defenders to tap home a good Serge Gnabry cross on 18 minutes.
A superb exchange of passes somewhere between Leroy Sane and Thomas Mueller setup Gnabry to score Bayern's second on 22 minutes.
Just 77 seconds later on, Lewandowski headed house Mueller's cross and the Poland star wrapped up his treble 6 minutes before half-period with a minimal shot.
"We paid dearly. They have scored with every probability," explained Stuttgart sporting director Sven Mislintat.
Davies and Jerome Boateng might both end up being suspended for Bayern's April 3 showdown in Leipzig. Boateng found a first-half yellow cards, his fifth this season.
- Haaland equaliser -
Somewhere else, Erling Braut Haaland rescued Borussia Dortmund with two goals, including a late equaliser, in a 2-2 attract at strugglers Cologne.
The 20-year-old Norway star stormed off the pitch at the ultimate whistle as Dortmund's defensive weaknesses were again exposed.
Dortmund, who deal with Manchester City found in the Champions League quarter-finals the following month, were going to defeat before Haaland struck on 90 moments after also offering the site visitors an early lead.
Dortmund's England midfielder Jude Bellingham gave away a good first-half penalty whenever a VAR analysis showed he previously blocked a shot along with his arm and Ondrej Duda netted the spot-kick.
A mistake by Dortmund defender Thomas Meunier allowed Germany Under-21 winger Ismail Jakobs to fire Cologne right into a 2-1 lead with one hour gone.
Haaland hit the content with a towering header before stabbing in Dortmund's equaliser.
Fifth-placed Dortmund are several details from the Champions League areas.
Eintracht Frankfurt, the golf club immediately previously mentioned them, cruised to a good 5-2 home make an impression on Union Berlin seeing as Portugal striker Andre Silva netted twice.
Wolfsburg consolidated third place with a 2-1 gain at Werder Bremen as Dutch striker Wout Weghorst strike what became the winning goal right before the break.
Later, Borussia Moenchengladbach ended their slide straight down the league desk with a 3-0 win at bottom area Schalke with goals simply by Lars Stindl and Stefan Lainer.
Schalke goalkeeper Frederik Ronnow summed up the house side's fortune when he parried a good header by Nico Elvedi, but the ball carried over the goalline.
The away win ended Gladbach's awful run of seven defeats because it was announced head coach Marco Rose was leaving to take charge of Dortmund next season.
Gladbach are ninth even while Schalke are 12 things from escaping underneath three.
