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#1 Ruthless finishing on display
After constant waves of Bayern pressure, Pavard levelled the scoring after 35 minutes with a well-struck downward volley which cannoned in off the crossbar. Mainz were frustrated, but things were about to worsen before the half-time break.
Ivan Perisic and Robert Lewandowski both went close with respective efforts, before the latter was hauled to ground unceremoniously by Alexander Hack as he broke forward in a dangerous area outside the area. David Alaba let fly from distance with the resulting free-kick, watching as his sweetly-struck bullet arrowed into the top corner.
It was the Austria international's first goal since their title-clinching win over Eintracht Frankfurt on the final day last term and he couldn't have picked a more opportune time to score it either, on the stroke of half-time. But they were not finished there.
Perisic made no mistake to head home from Pavard's inviting delivery ten minutes after the restart, capitalising on some sloppy defensive marking to convert beyond a helpless Florian Muller. Ten minutes later, Coman got on the scoresheet - slotting into the bottom corner with a neatly-placed first-time strike after Joshua Kimmich's clever cutback. It was suddenly getting ugly and Kovac made a double alteration soon afterwards, with Thomas Muller and Alphonso Davies being introduced.
Lewandowski got the goal his tireless hold-up play deserved, having been teed up by Muller. His first touch was immaculate and he let fly, watching it take a little deflection on the way through as it cannoned in off the far post. Davies made it a super six after a well-worked team move rewarded his movement with an open goal finish across goal, again being fed by Muller.
