BERLIN - Newly-crowned FIFA world player of the year Robert Lewandowski scored a double, including a dramatic injury-time winner, as Bayern Munich beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 on Saturday to usurp their opponents at the top of the Bundesliga.
Lewandowski, who beat Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to the individual award on Thursday, scored in the 93rd minute to put the reigning champions two points clear heading into the winter break.
“What a year we have had, I hope we will continue to play like this in the New Year,” Lewandowski told Sky.
“It’s always nice to score a goal in the last few seconds, especially to get an important victory.
“This shows that we always want to win games like these.” Lewandowski has 20 goals in 18 games this season in all competitions, having also headed Bayern level just before the break after Patrik Schick gave Leverkusen an early lead.
Second-placed Leverkusen are level on 28 points with RB Leipzig, who sit third after a goalless draw at home with Cologne.
Bayern are the first Bundesliga team to beat Leverkusen this term, having also ended Wolfsburg’s unbeaten league run this season in midweek.
For the seventh Bundesliga game in a row, Bayern conceded the opening goal when Leverkusen exposed the European champions’ trend of weak defending at set-pieces. Schick smashed his shot past Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, voted goalkeeper of the year on Thursday, from a corner to give the hosts a 14th-minute lead. -AFP
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