Dortmund fire four past Ingolstadt, Mainz win
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Borussia Dortmund's dream start to the season continued Sunday as their 4-0 win at new-boys Ingolstadt saw them leapfrog Bayern Munich to top the German Bundesliga table on goal difference.
Dortmund claimed their sixth win in all competitions under new coach Thomas Tuchel as defender Matthias Ginter, Marco Reus, Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored second-half goals.
"I knew we'd go top of the table after we went 3-0 up, but what especially pleased me was the performance," said Tuchel. "I'm proud that the team kept the performance up for 90 minutes and never waned. I'd hoped in the half-time break that they would be rewarded for playing well."
Dogged Ingolstadt defending meant Dortmund only went ahead when right-back Ginter fired home Henrikh Mkhitaryan's final pass on 55 minutes. Germany winger Reus doubled the lead by converting a penalty on the hour after left-back Marcel Schmelzer was fouled. Kagawa added the third with a superb shot off his left foot after beating two defenders on 84 minutes before Aubameyang claimed his sixth goal in six games in stoppage time.
Later Borussia Moenchengladbach, who will discover their UEFA Champions League group stage opponents on Thursday, dropped to bottom of the table on goal difference after losing 2-1 to Mainz. Leaky defence let them down again having lost 4-0 to Dortmund last Saturday.
Gladbach cancelled out Jairo Samperio's first-half goal when Germany winger Patrick Herrmann equalised just after the break only for right-winger Christian Clemens to score Mainz's 79th-minute winner to leave Gladbach without a point.