Bayern Munich went level on points with Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga with an emphatic 5-1 win against Borussia Monchengladbach at Borussia-Park.
It took just two minutes for Bayern to take the lead through a Javi Martinez header from a James Rodriguez corner, which survived a VAR check for an alleged push from the Spaniard, after Yann Sommer kept out Robert Lewandowski's effort just seconds earlier.
Die Roten doubled their lead after 11 minutes through Thomas Muller, who was quickest to react and finish from close range, after he was initially denied by Sommer, although Gladbach did halve the deficit eight minutes before the interval when a well-worked move was finished by Lars Stindl, who fired past Manuel Neuer at his near-post.