Lewandowski has the wind in his sails

"We played really well in the first half, then with second-half penalties," said coach Niko Kovac, while Bayern have recovered from Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Leverkusen. "We deserved the victory and the margin of victory."

Dortmund had earlier blew a three-goal lead at home against Hoffenheim, who scored three times late on a spectacular score of 3-3. Bayern dominated at the Allianz Arena in Munich, taking the lead after new signature Schalke Jeffrey Bruma packed the ball in his own net for 12 minutes. Schalke leveled off when The Turkish international Ahmed Kutucu finished a brilliant counterattack in 25 minutes to beat Sven Ulreich, Bayern's substitute goalkeeper with Manuel Neuer dismissed by a thumb injury.

Lewandowski, striker from Poland restored Bayern lead just 90 seconds later, he scored his 100th goal at the Allianz Arena in the red jersey. James Rodriguez then went near for Bayern, Thiago Alcantara cleared a header for Weston McKennie, Schalke threatened to tie up before half-time.

American international McKennie hit the pole after the break for Schalke, but Serge Gnabry sealed Bayern's win with a header on 57 minutes after Lewandowski directed the ball towards the goal with a bicycle kick.

– Frustrated leaders –

Despite a dazzling screen of Jadon Sancho, Dortmund had only himself to blame for give up an advance against Hoffenheim.

"When you lead 3-0 at home, then shoot 3-3, it's very bitter – that should not have happened, "Goetze said. We gave them nothing for a long time, then things really went against us. "

The result will give Mauricio Pochettino some food for thought before his Team Tottenham Team, Dortmund Wednesday at Wembley in the Champions League last 16, first leg.

"We were lucky enough to go 4-0, so draw is hard to take, " said Dortmund's badistant coach Manfred Stefes. "We defended the goals too naively and unfortunately, lost the challenges face to face when it really mattered. "

In the absence of top scorer and playmaker Marco Reus, dismissed by a thigh injury, Sancho stepped up One of his best performances since arriving in Dortmund from Manchester City in August 2017. However, Hoffenheim has fought back in the last 20 minutes when Belfodil operated the house his first goal on a Pavel Kaderabek center, which does 3-2 with a ball header eight minutes of time.

Belfodil has completed his return and claimed a point for Hoffenheim when he s' is launched on a free kick and his head beat goalkeeper Roman Burki in 87 minutes. Somewhere else, Borussia Moenchengladbach slipped to third place after losing 3-0 at home against Hertha Berlin after Salomon Kalou, Ondrej Duda and Davie Selke scored.

In the basement battle, Hanover climbed from the bottom with a 2-0 home victory in Nuremberg to 10 men, who dropped to the bottom of the table, with the former striker from Germany Nicolai Mueller scoring both goals. Nuremberg was reduced to 10 men after just 11 minutes when midfielder Simon Rhein was seen sending a red card without fail for a dangerous foul.

Fourth RB Leipzig drew and lost at home by Eintracht Frankfurt, which are just a place behind them. The mid-table sides Freiburg and Wolfsburg shared a point in an entertaining 3-3 draw Gian-Luca Waldschmidt equalized two minutes from the arrival of Freiburg.