Bochum stun Bundesliga leaders Bayern 4-2

Promoted Bochum have stunned Bayern Munich and the Bundesliga with a 4-2 win over the Bavarian giants, preventing the league leaders from going 12 points clear.

Bochum even had to come from behind to do it on Saturday, after Robert Lewandowski's opener for the visitors had brought back memories of their 7-0 thrashing when the teams met in Munich in September.

This time Thomas Reis' team answered, astonishingly, with four first-half goals - three of them in a six-minute spell when Bayern were left reeling from Bochum's intensity.

"Every player has to ask themselves if they threw everything into it," Bayern midfielder Joshua Kimmich said afterwards.

Lewandowski had opened the scoring in the ninth minute, when he did well to control Kingsley Coman's ball back and squeeze it past Bochum goalkeeper Michael Esser.

Bochum struck back five minutes later through Christopher Antwi-Adjei, who evaded Niklas Sule and let fly inside the post after being set up by Gerrit Holtmann.

Bochum were awarded a penalty when Dayot Upamecano's outstretched arm blocked Elvis Rexhbecaj's attempted cross, with Jurgen Locadia converting the spot kick in the 38th.

Cristian Gamboa then scored a contender for goal of the season two minutes later, when he played the ball through Coman's legs and a one-two with Patrick Osterhage - who returned the ball with his heel - before firing a rocket of a shot into the far corner.

As if to show it was no fluke, Holtmann repeated the feat from the other side four minutes later, when he played the ball between Upamecano's legs before unleashing another spectacular shot inside the far corner.

The home team twice had further goals ruled out for offside after the break, before Armel Bella Kotchap made a goal-saving