Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund have continued their superb start to the season by thrashing bottom club VfB Stuttgart 4-0, while Bayern Munich stopped the rot and picked up a crucial 3-1 win at Wolfsburg.
Jadon Sancho, Marco Reus and Paco Alcacer had unbeaten Dortmund cruising inside 25 minutes at Stuttgart, who made a chaotic start to the reign of new coach Markus Weinzierl. Maximilian Philipp added a late fourth.
United: Dortmund continued their impressive start to the season.Credit:AP
Struggling champions Bayern ended a four-game winless run in all competitions to go second on a double from Robert Lewandowski despite Arjen Robben's red card. But they still trail Dortmund by four points.
Elsewhere, Bayer Leverkusen rescued a 2-2 home draw against 10-man Hanover, RB Leipzig were held 0-0 at Augsburg and Nuremberg lost 3-1 at home to Hoffenheim.
Stuttgart's resistance against Dortmund lasted only three minutes on coach Weinzierl's debut but they were unlucky as a deflection took Reus' cross to Sancho and another ricochet sent his shot past keeper Ron-Robert Zieler.
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Reus drilled home the second on 24 minutes and just 60 seconds later Alcacer scored his seventh of the season, on his first start, by capitalising on an error from French World Cup winner Benjamin Pavard.
Stuttgart rallied early in the second half but Christian Gentner and Santiago Ascacibar missed great chances to cut the deficit before Philipp completed the scoring.
Bayern started the weekend sixth and under pressure, not least because club bosses held a bizarre press conference on Friday to attack the media for criticising their players.
But they responded well with Thiago's clever dummy releasing Lewandowski for the opener and the Pole struck again, from defender William's errant header, just after the break.
A careless foul earned Robben a second yellow card and Wout Weghorst pulled one back just after the hour but James Rodrigeuz made the points safe to boost under-fire coach Niko Kovac.
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