“During the break I really wanted the team to reward itself for such a performance”.
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Shinji Kagawa added a third with six minutes to go and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finished off the rout to take the Westphalians to the top of the pile on goal difference and inflict the first defeat of the season on the league’s newcomers.
The 2011 and 2012 champions, who won their opener against Borussia Moenchengladbach by the same score, struggled in the first half despite a hatful of chances against the Bavarian club but broke the deadlock in the 55th minute when defender Matthias Ginter shook off his marker and slotted in.
Five minutes later Dortmund doubled their lead from the penalty spot courtesy of a Marco Reus strike after Moritz Hartmann gave away the initial foul inside the box, 2-0.
Leaky defence let them down again having lost 4-0 to Dortmund last Saturday.
The Poland striker sealed the champions’ comeback after Germany Under-21 striker Kevin Volland had opened the scoring with nice seconds gone, darting onto David Alaba’s loose pass and drilling his shot home at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena.
Hoffenheim wasted the chance for an historic first win over bayern at the 15th attempt when Eugen Polanski blasted his penalty attempt off the post after Jerome Boateng’s handball saw the Germany worldwide sent off for a second yellow card on 72 minutes.
Bayern claimed the dramatic victor when Brazil winger Douglas Costa fired in a superb cross and Lewandowski drilled home his shot.
But Tuchel’s side, fresh from Thursday’s thrilling 4-3 Europa League triumph over Odd, were worthy winners to make it back-to-back victories at the start of the league season.
It was one-way traffic from start to finish, yet Ingolstadt were able to survive the storm for the first 45 minutes with a mixture of wayward finishing and good goalkeeping helping them stay in the game.
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Hertha Berlin had briefly led the table on Friday night after their 1-1 draw at home to Bremen when Valentin Stocker’s goal was cancelled out by Anthony Ujah’s equaliser.
