Leon Goretzka has scored twice for Bayern Munich to beat Wolfsburg 3-2 and retain its four-point lead in the Bundesliga.

BERLIN (AP) — Leon Goretzka scored twice for Bayern Munich as it beat Wolfsburg 3-2 to open a seven-point lead in the Bundesliga on Saturday. Defending champion Bayer Leverkusen could restore the four-point gap with a win at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the late game.

After a tough start to the season with little game time, Leon Goretzka has battled his way back into the Bayern München team. The 29-year-old central midfielder made his second start in three games since the turn of the year against Wolfsburg on Saturday and repaid the faith shown in him with an impressive brace in Bayern's 3-2 win.

Leon Goretzka scored a brace as league leaders Bayern Munich beat Wolfsburg 3-2 at home on Saturday, going seven points clear of defending champions Bayer Leverkusen.

Bayern Munich defeated Wolfsburg 3-2 in their Bundesliga match to extend their lead to seven points at the top of the table.

Leon Goretzka was forced off with an injury in FC Bayern's 2-1 win at SC Freiburg on Saturday afternoon. "He felt something at the back as he was moving, we just have to see what it is now,"

On matchday 18 of the ongoing 2024/25 Bundesliga season Bayern Munich hosted mid-table side - VfL Wolfsburg at the Allianz Arena. In front of a boisterous home crowd, on the back of an impressive 5-0 win over Hoffenheim just three days earlier,

Is the Bundesliga title race over? Perhaps not quite. But Bayern Munich has made a big step towards reclaiming the Bundesliga title from Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday. While the Rekordmeister beat SC Freiburg 2-1, Leverkusen dropped two points against RB Leipzig after being 2-0 up early on.

Bayern would pick up their fifth Bundesliga win in a row, and their fourth out of four since the restart. To make things even better, Bayer Leverkusen dropped points late on away to RB Leipzig, giving Bayern a lead of six points at the top of the table.

Bayern Munich has signed highly rated German midfielder Tom Bischof from Bundesliga rival Hoffenheim for next season.

Stanišić then gets to make his comeback over the weekend, but only to replace an injured Leon Goretzka. How very typical. However, initial impressions are that Goretzka got off a lot easier than Davies.