'Ghost champion' Bayern left basking in an eerie afterglow

Bayern holds a 3-0 first-leg lead over Chelsea in the Champions League.

"This is Bayern Munich, the goals are always high," said Flick after club president Hainer Herbert had said the treble is now the goal.

"We have reached our first big goal, the cup is now the next goal, then the Champions League, but you can't plan for that."

Under normal circumstances, the return leg of the last-16 tie against Chelsea would be played in Munich, but the venue and date of that game remain unclear after UEFA this week confirmed Lisbon as the host of matches from the quarterfinals onwards.

"We've got enough time to get ready for it," Lewandowski said of the August mini-tournament in the Portuguese capital.

Germany's relatively early finish is likely to leave Bayern a month without competitive games after the German Cup final.

The home defeat means Bremen, which is three points from guaranteed safety with two games left, badly needs a result at fellow struggler Mainz on Saturday or at home to Cologne on the final day of the season.

This was Bayern's 13th straight win in Bremen, but Florian Kohfeldt's host worked tirelessly.

Having given Bayern the lead, Lewandowski went chasing a second and had the ball in the net in the 54th minute but was flagged offside.

Canadian leftback Davies showed a lightning pair of heels by clocking 36.51 kilometers per hour, which will be a Bundesliga record if the speed is confirmed, before his late dismissal.

Having been shown a first-half yellow card for a foul on Leonardo Bittencourt, Davies was booked again for blocking the run of Milos Veljkovic.

Bremen piled on the pressure in the final 10 minutes, with Boateng doing excellently to prevent a late cross from reaching Josh Sargent.

Kohfeldt threw on strikers Niclas Fuellkrug and 41-year-old Claudio Pizarro, against his former club.

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer pulled off a stunning fingertip save in the 90th minute to deny Japan forward Yuya Osako, with Pizarro sliding in searching for a tap-in, as Bayern held on.