Mainz 05 put up a fight in the second half at the Stadion am Bruchweg, but it wasn’t enough to stop Bayern Munich from returning to winning ways on the road and moving ahead of Bayer Leverkusen (who play VfB Stuttgart on Sunday) into second place on goal difference. Mario Gómez gave the visitors a 3-0 advantage after seventy-seven minutes with his eighteenth league goal of 2010-11, but Sami Allagui prevented the Bavarians from claiming their second clean sheet away from home this season.
Mainz 05 Vs. Bayern Munich: 3-1 Win Moves Bavarians Into Second
After Müller doubled Bayern’s advantage with forty minutes played the game followed a fairly uniform pattern: Mainz would try to keep the ball and put their visitors under pressure, and when FCB won the ball back they would break dangerously at pace. Bayern probably should have scored more than the three they did; Gómez had two chances aside from the one from which he scored.
Louis van Gaal’s team looked in command until Allagui scored -- perhaps remembering their defeat in Cologne two weeks ago, some of the home fans may have sensed a slight wobble by the defending champions. However, nothing came of it, and Bayern will head into their midweek Champions League clash against Inter Milan on the back of two successive wins in the league that will mean they end the weekend, at worst, in third place. For Mainz, defeat has definitely re-opened the race for European places to Freiburg, who are level on points with die Nullfunfer, and both Hamburg SV and FC Nürnberg, who are one and two points behind, respectively.
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