Bayern Munich broke the record for the most goals scored in a single Bundesliga season as they thrashed St Pauli to open up a 12-point lead at the top of the table.<\/p>\n
Jamal Musiala gave them a ninth-minute with a diving header at the back post, before Leon Goretzka, Michael Olise, Nicolas Jackson and Raphael Guerreiro scored in the second half to secure a convincing victory.<\/p>\n
Musiala’s header from a Konrad Laimer cross was Bayern’s 101st league goal this season, equalling the record they set in 1971-72 for the most scored in a Bundesliga campaign.<\/p>\n
Musiala also hit the post with a curling effort midway through the first half, before a heroic Kim Min-Jae block denied St Pauli an equaliser from one of their few sights of goal.<\/p>\n
It took Vincent Kompany’s side eight minutes after the restart to break the Bundesliga goals mark when Goretzka volleyed in the 102nd after a Joshua Kimmich free-kick was flicked on to the far post.<\/p>\n
Just 75 seconds later France winger Olise found the bottom corner from the edge of the penalty area, before Jackson side-footed past St Pauli goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj from close range.<\/p>\n
Guerreiro added a deserved fifth in the 89th minute after picking the pocket of a defender and slotting home.<\/p>\n
Bayern took full advantage of Borussia Dortmund’s 1-0 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen earlier on Saturday, and now hold a commanding lead over their closest rivals with just five games left to play.<\/p>\n
Their goal difference now stands at 78, with Kompany’s side having scored at least twice in 27 of their 29 league matches.<\/p>\n
Musiala was named player of the match on just his third league start of an injury-hit campaign as he looks to earn a place in Germany’s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n
Such was the ruthlessness of Bayern’s second-half attacking play, England captain Harry Kane was able to rest on the bench before the second leg of his side’s Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid on Wednesday, with the Germans 2-1 ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich broke the record for the most goals scored in a single Bundesliga season as they thrashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-393728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}