Promoted Bochum beats Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich

BERLIN (AP) — Promoted Bochum stunned Bayern Munich and the Bundesliga with a 4-2 win over the Bavarian powerhouse on Saturday, preventing the league leader from going 12 points clear.

Bochum even had to come from behind to do it, after Robert Lewandowski’s opener for the visitors stoked fears of another thrashing following Bayern’s 7-0 rout when the teams met in Munich in September.

But Thomas Reis’ team answered with four first-half goals, three of them in a six-minute spell which left Bayern reeling from Bochum’s intensity.

“We wanted to take the fun of football away from Bayern,” Reis said. “We could have scored the fifth goal.”

The visitors were left to contemplate an unforeseen setback before their Champions League playoff match at Salzburg on Wednesday. Bayern hadn't conceded more than three goals before halftime since November 1975 when it conceded five in a 6-0 loss at Eintracht Frankfurt.

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

Lewandowski opened the scoring in the ninth minute, but Bochum struck back five minutes later through Christopher Antwi-Adjei, who was set up by Gerrit Holtmann, evaded Niklas Süle and let fly inside the post.

Bochum was awarded a penalty when Dayot Upamecano’s outstretched arm blocked Elvis Rexhbecaj’s attempted cross. Jürgen Locadia converted the spot kick in the 38th.

Cristian Gamboa then scored a contender for goal of the season, when he played the ball through Kingsley 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