Treble winners Bayern Munich demolished Schalke 04 4-0 on Saturday to join Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table after they drew 1-1 at Nuremberg.
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Bayern's Bastian Schweinsteiger, back in the starting line-up after an ankle injury, drilled in a well-timed header in the 21st minute and Mario Mandzukic did exactly the same a minute later to silence the 61 000 Schalke crowd.
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Franck Ribery sealed their win with a clever flick off a David Alaba cutback in the 75th minute before substitute Claudio Pizarro completed yet another dominant performance by the Bavarians in the 84th, following their 3-0 midweek mauling of CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.
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"We took the game very seriously from the first minute," Schweinsteiger told reporters.
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"We also knew of the results in the earlier games. At times we played very good football. We vary our game a lot and that makes it difficult to take the ball from us."
The title is surely between those two german clubs again so the rest can just fight for 3rd and 4th place one more time!