Rampant Dortmund crush Ingolstadt to go top of table

“During the break I really wanted the team to reward itself for such a performance”.

Nyland was helpless to prevent Kagawa adding the third with five minutes remaining, though, as the former Manchester United midfielder found the net from 12 yards out, while Aubameyang’s injury-time goal from close range rubbed salt in Ingolstadt’s wounds.

The hosts weathered a first-half storm, but could not deny Dortmund after the interval as Matthias Ginter scored his first goal for the club and Marco Reus converted a penalty, before late strikes from Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang added gloss.

Later Borussia Monchengladbach, who will discover their Champions League group stage opponents on Thursday, dropped to bottom of the table on goal difference after losing 2-1 to Mainz.

The Ruhr outfit finished the last campaign in seventh, but this season has been going well so far, as they recorded a consecutive 4-0 win.

Jairo Samperio opened the scoring for Mainz in the 42 minute before Patrick Herrmann equalised for Monchengladback in the 54 minute.

Bayern claimed the dramatic victor when Brazil winger Douglas Costa fired in a superb cross and Lewandowski drilled home his shot.

In what will be the first-ever Bundesliga match at the Audi-Sportpark, Dortmund will have to be wary of a recently promoted side who already have three points on the board after surprising Mainz and much of the top division with a 1-0 victory last week.

Hoffenheim wasted the chance for an historic first win over bayern at the 15th attempt when Eugen Polanski blasted his penalty attempt off the post after Jerome Boateng’s handball saw the Germany global sent off for a second yellow card on 72 minutes.

The match between FC Ingolstadt and BVB Dortmund began as a typically frantic early season encounter with both sides still seemingly trying to find their feet after the off-season.

Hamburg moved up to ninth with a 3-2 win at home to ten-man VfB Stuttgart as their ex-Arsenal defender Johan Djourou scored the 89th-minute victor after Stuttgart right-back Florian Klein was sent off for a second booking in as many minutes.