Bayern win 5-2 away, hat-trick for Makaay

Dutch striker Roy Makaay scored a hat-trick to fire champions Bayern Munich to a 5-2 win at Bayer Leverkusen yesterday.

Bayern's victory sent them top of the table with six points and eight goals in their first two matches.

Any hopes Bayer may have had of repeating their 4-1 humiliation of Bayern last season were soon extinguished.

"You get days like this in football. We were shocked to go down by two goals - goals which could have been prevented," said Bayer coach Klaus Augenthaler.

"We cut their lead to 2-1 and had some good chances. But the third goal broke our necks," he added.

Michael Ballack opened the scoring against his former side, powering home a perfectly-placed shot into the corner of the net in the third minute.

Makaay put Bayern 2-0 up eight minutes later but Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov netted a penalty in the 32nd minute, briefly bringing Bayer into the game.

Four minutes later Ali Karimi extended Bayern's lead to 3-1 and Makaay turned the screw, scoring twice within seven minutes in the second half.

Bayer's Marko Babic got a late consolation eight minutes from time.

Bayern coach Felix Magath said goals would not always come so quickly and Bayer had not put his team through their paces. "Our next Bundesliga home game against Hertha will be much harder," he said.

Borussia Dortmund took the lead in the 17th minute against Schalke 04 through Ebi Smolarek, but Germany striker Kevin Kuranyi headed an equaliser and clinched a winner 13 minutes into the second half before a sell-out crowd of over 81,000.

Schalke have the same number of points as Bayern and Hamburg SV, 2-0 winners at Arminia Bielefeld.

Promoted MSV Duisburg troubled Kaiserslautern in an action-packed game before losing 5-3. "We made a determined push forward, but made lots of mistakes at the back. That shows we have a lot of work to do," said coach Michael Henke.

Today, Mainz meet Werder Bremen and VFB Stuttgart play Cologne.