“We can qualify for the next round as the top side in the group [if we win]”.
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Max Meyer equalized against the run of play eight minutes later.
Javi Martinez scored his first Bundesliga goal since the 2012-13 season.
Suarez struck again just before the interval with a sweet volley and the rout continued in the second half as Neymar, Suarez and Messi all combined to give Gerard Pique a tap-in. Adriano capped the demolition after converting from the rebound following Neymar’s missed penalty.
“Very important, especially with what happened in Porto we really needed to win this match, and also important to get two victories in a few days”, Mourinho told BT Sport. Their Champions League home opponents, meanwhile, Olympiakos could not even get game time as their tie was called off because of crowd trouble.
It was another classic Bayern Munich performance.
Kingsley Coman headed in Bayern’s fourth goal in the 70th minute as Bayern moved up to 12 points in the group ahead of their final game at Dinamo Zagreb on December 9.
Olympiakos hosts Arsenal next month to decide the second team to advance from the group. Alexis Sanchez scored twice and set up Mesut Ozil for Arsenal’s first goal.
20′ – GOAL! Bayern 3-0 Olympiacos.
Bayern will now head into the draw for the second round as a top seed, and that will mean avoiding the likes of Barcelona until the latter stages of the competition.
Before the 20-minute mark had been reached, the result had been put beyond any doubt.
In the only negative point for Chelsea, captain John Terry fell awkwardly in the 75th and was taken off on a stretcher.
Augsburg went on to win 4-0 and climb provisionally off the bottom with its biggest ever Bundesliga win.
Andriy Yarmolenko and Derlis Gonzalez netted to inflict Porto’s first defeat of the season.
The 2015 UEFA Champions League schedule is moving forward with some group stages matches today.
United’s summer signing Memphis Depay finally bagged his first Premier League goal for the club on Saturday, opening the scoring in the side’s 2-1 win away to newly-promoted Watford.
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That might have been the sort of practice adopted by Germans at the 1982 World Cup along with their Austrian neighbours, but the current Bayern side are so well versed in the art of winning that it’s hard to see them doing anything else – and with plenty to spare.
