Bundesliga: Thomas Muller scores late penalty in Bayern Munich win
Sunday 13 September 2015 14:28, UK
Thomas Muller scored a 90th-minute penalty against Augsburg to keep Bayern Munich’s 100 per cent league record intact.
Muller kept his nerve to score his sixth goal of the season to help the Bundesliga champions beat their Bavarian rivals 2-1.
It came in the 90th minute of a game Bayern had been chasing since early on, and Muller, who has passed on the penalty-taking duties to Arjen Robben a few times recently, was not his usual confident self as he stepped up in front of the South Stand of the Allianz Arena with the score tied at 1-1.
"That really put me under a lot of pressure, in the 90th minute," Muller said on his club's website.
"To take a penalty in the 90th minute - it certainly puts butterflies in the belly even of an experienced player like me."
Alexander Esswein's strike had put Augsburg ahead at the Allianz Arena, but Robert Lewandowski struck to level the match with 13 minutes left.
Bayern are joined at the top of the division by Borussia Dortmund, who also continued their winning run when beating Hannover 4-2 at the HDI-Arena.
Hannover grabbed an early lead through Artur Sobiech but Dortmund hit back through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Sobiech levelled after the interval, but Felipe's own goal and an Aubameyang penalty - the second of the game - were enough to secure a routine away win.
Elsewhere, Stuttgart lost 2-1 at Hertha Berlin and remain winless this season while Bayer Leverkusen were dispatched 1-0 at home by Darmstadt and Wolfsburg drew 0-0 with Ingolstadt.
