Bayern’s Thomas Mueller scoring one of his three goals, yesterday.Bayern’s Thomas Mueller scoring one of his three goals, yesterday.

Bayern Munich’s Thomas Mueller scored a hat-trick as the undefeated champions crushed Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0 yesterday to open up a seven-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.

At the other end of the table Werder Bremen moved off the bottom with a 2-0 home win over Stuttgart, leaving Borussia Dortmund, who take on third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach to-day, in last spot.

Mueller’s opening goal in the 22nd minute was a bad omen for Frankfurt, with the attacking midfielder having scored in 50 previous Bundesliga games of which Bayern had won 47 and drawn three.

The Germany international doubled the visitors’ lead when he tapped in a Franck Ribery pass in the 64th but Bayern, who booked their spot in the Champions League last 16 last week with a win over Roma, never hit top form.

Mueller completed his hat-trick three minutes later when he raced clear to beat Felix Wiedwald for his sixth goal of the season.

Xherdan Shaqiri then deflected a Sebastian Rode shot into the goal as Bayern won for the sixth time in seven league games.

“After a Champions League game it is always a bit difficult. We had our problems at the start,” coach Pep Guardiola told reporters.

“Now we have a few days to sit down in peace and quiet and analyse what we can improve.”

The Bavarians are top on 27 points with second-placed Wolfsburg and Gladbach in third, both on 20 and in action today.

Bayer Leverkusen failed to replicate their winning Champions League form from midweek and had to settle for a goalless draw against Mainz 05. They dropped to sixth on 17 points.

Hoffenheim are also on 17 having lost 4-3 to Cologne after coming back from 3-1 down to level with a double from Roberto Firmino in a roller-coaster game.

Schalke continued their erratic form and slumped to a 2-0 loss at Freiburg to drop to 11th . It was a second successive loss for Schalke after going 4-2 down to Sporting in the Champions League.

Results
Augsburg vs Paderborn - 3-0
B. Leverkusen vs Mainz - 0-0
E. Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich - 0-4
Freiburg vs Schalke - 2-0
Hoffenheim vs Cologne - 3-4
W. Bremen vs Stuttgart - 2-0

  P W D L F A Pts
B. Munich 11 8 4 0 27 3 27
Wolfsburg 10 6 2 2 20 9 20
B. Mgladbach 10 5 5 0 15 5 20
Hanover 11 6 1 4 9 11 19
Hoffenheim 11 4 5 2 17 14 17
B. Le’rkusen 11 4 5 2 17 15 17
Augsburg 11 5 0 6 14 12 15
Mainz 11 3 6 2 13 12 15
Paderborn 11 4 3 4 16 16 15
Cologne 11 4 3 4 11 11 15
Schalke 11 4 2 5 14 15 14
E. Frankfurt 11 3 3 5 17 23 12
Freiburg 11 2 5 4 11 14 11
Hertha Berlin 11 3 2 6 15 21 11
W. Bremen 11 2 4 5 14 24 10
Hamburg 10 2 3 5 4 12 9
Stuttgart 11 2 3 6 14 25 9
B. Dortmund 10 2 1 7 11 17 7

Playing today
Wolfsburg vs Hamburg - 15.30
B. Dortmund vs B. Mgladbach - 17.30

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