Lewandowski nets 23rd goal as Bayern go 11 clear

Both sides had their chances as Wolfsburg ‘keeper Koen Casteels, who had flu in midweek, denied Lewandowski and Mueller before Coman beat him.

Though far from their fluent best at the Volkswagen Arena, Bayern made it 20 victories from 23 top-flight games this term against a Wolfsburg side they thrashed 5-1 in September, when Lewandowski scored all five of the hosts’ goals in nine second-half minutes. Robert Lewandowski enters the fray looking for a fourth goal in three games.

It was the Polish striker’s sixth goal against Dieter Hecking’s men this season, following his record-breaking five-goal haul in the previous meeting between the two sides this campaign.

– Bayern have won all seven Bundesliga matches this season following a Champions League match.

A questionable offside call saw Lewandowski’s tap-in chalked off early in the second half, with Guardiola calling on Franck Ribery from the bench to replace Arjen Robben soon after.

In other matches, Claudio Pizarro scored a late goal to salvage a 2-2 draw for Werder Bremen against Darmstadt, bottom-place Hannover ended a five-match losing streak under new coach Thomas Schaaf with a 2-1 win in Stuttgart and Hamburger SV settled for a 1-1 draw at home against Ingolstadt. The ball fell kindly to Coman, who slotted it home from close range in the 66th.

“These are three very important points for us”.

Four days after their 2-2 draw at Juventus in the Champions League, Guardiola is set to rotate his Bayern squad, especially with defenders Holger Badstuber, Jerome Boateng and Javi Martinez all sidelined. We started very well, but then didn’t attack resolutely enough.

It was business as usual at the top of the table as Bayern Munich overcame Wolfsburg 2-0.

Christian Schulz netted a brace as Hannover came from behind to win their first Bundesliga game since the end of November and give themselves some hope of avoiding relegation with a 2-1 win at Stuttgart.

Bayern are eight points clear of second-placed Borussia Dortmund – and a massive 28 ahead of eighth-placed Wolfsburg.