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Eintracht crush Bayern 5-1 in first league defeat of the season

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FRANKFURT : Eintracht Frankfurt pulverised Bayern Munich 5-1 with a sensational three-goal first-half performance on Saturday to snap the champions' unbeaten run in the Bundesliga this season.In an explosive first half, Eintracht completely over-ran Bayern and exposed their error-prone backline, scoring three times in 24 minutes.Omar Marmoush opened their account in the 12th, drilling in on the rebound after Fares Chaibi had hit the crossbar following a miskick from Bayern's Noussair Mazraoui.After yet more slapdash defending from Bayern, Eric Dina Ebimbe doubled their lead in the 31st and Hugo Larsson made it 3-0 five minutes later, benefiting from a Joshua Kimmich error.Kimmich made amends just before the break with a powerful shot from 20 metres out to cut the deficit but it did not stop the home side.Eintracht put the ball in the net again, five minutes after the restart, to make it 4-1, outplaying Bayern with another textbook quick break and with Ebimbe beating keeper Manuel Neuer for his second goal of the afternoon.Ansgar Knauff slotted in to make it 5-1 on the hour as Frankfurt became the first team in 48 years to score five goals in one hour against Bayern in the Bundesliga, since their own 6-0 win in 1975.Bayern, who have a game in hand after seeing last week's league game against Union Berlin postponed due to snow, remain in second place on 32 points, with leaders Bayer Leverkusen, on 35, travelling to third-placed VfB Stuttgart, who have 30 points, on Sunday.

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BERLIN: Excelling in the Champions League, disappointing in the Bundesliga. Borussia Dortmund suffered another domestic setback when they were held at Augsburg to 1-1 on Saturday just days after topping a Champions League group with Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle. When asked how the team cannot maintain their good Champions League form in the Bundesliga, Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck answered, “I don’t know.” Ermedin Demirović held off Schlotterbeck’s challenge — arguably with a shove — to fire Augsburg into a 23rd-minute lead. Donyell Malen played a one-two with Niclas Füllkrug to equalize in the 35th. Augsburg missed three good chances early in the second half before Dortmund coach Edin Terzić sent on Gio Reyna for Marco Reus in the 58th, then the 19-year-old Samuel Bamba for his Bundesliga debut in the 71st, but Dortmund were unable to grab a winner. It’s Dortmund’s third straight Bundesliga game without a win, and their fifth across all competitions including a 1-1 draw with PSG on Wednesday. Terzić’s team have won only one of their last seven Bundesliga games. Dortmund, which came agonizingly close to ending Bayern Munich’s domestic dominance last season, can fall nine points behind the defending champion, and 13 behind league leader Bayer Leverkusen if Leverkusen beat Eintracht Frankfurt at home on Sunday. Dortmund also risk falling further behind fourth-placed Leipzig in the race for Champions League qualification. Leipzig hosted Hoffenheim late Saturday.

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