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Bayern Munich win 5-2 at Bayer, hat-trick for Makaay
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-08-14 09:10
Dutch striker Roy Makaay scored a hat-trick to fire
champions Bayern Munich to a 5-2 win at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
Bayern Munich's Dutch International Roy Makaay takes a free
kick against Bayer Leverkusen during their Bundesliga football match in
Leverkusen. Munich won 5-2. [AFP] |
Bayern's victory sent them top of the table with six points and eight goals
in their first two matches.
Any hopes Bayer may have had of repeating their 4-1 humiliation of Bayern
last season were soon extinguished.
Michael Ballack opened the scoring against his former side, powering home a
perfectly-placed shot into the corner of the net in the third minute.
Makaay put Bayern 2-0 up eight minutes later but Bulgarian striker Dimitar
Berbatov netted a penalty in the 32nd minute, briefly bringing Bayer into the
game.
Four minutes later Ali Karimi extended Bayern's lead to 3-1 and Makaay turned
the screw, scoring twice within seven minutes in the second half. Bayer's Marko
Babic got a late consolation eight minutes from time.
Borussia Dortmund took the lead in the 17th minute against Schalke 04 through
Ebi Smolarek, but Germany striker Kevin Kuranyi headed an equaliser six minutes
later and clinched a winner 13 minutes into the second half before a sell-out
crowd of over 81,000.
Schalke have the same number of points as Bayern and Hamburg SV, 2-0 winners
at Arminia Bielefeld.
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