Bayern Munich reasserted their overwhelming stranglehold on German football on Saturday by thrashing sorry Hamburg 8-0 at the Allianz Arena.
The win means the defending champions maintained their eight-point lead at the top of the table over Wolfsburg, who beat Bayer Leverkusen 5-4.
Germany pair Mario Gotze and Thomas Muller, and Dutchman Arjen Robben, all scored twice for Bayern.
Robert Lewandowski and Franck Ribery grabbed the other goals.
Muller's second goal and Robben's first were the pick of the bunch - both curling long-range strikes that gave keeper Jaroslav Drobny no chance.
The Bavarian giants thumping of their struggling Bundesliga rivals on Saturday, set a number of records in the process, including propelling Arjen Robben to unprecedented heights
It was their biggest win in over 30 years, with the last time that they won so handsomely being a 9-0 triumph over Kickers Offenbach in March 1984. It was also the third biggest scoreline ever posted by the Bavarians - No.1 being an 11-1 battering of Borussia Dortmund in November 1971.
For the first time in his club career, Muller was directly involved in four Bundesliga goals – also assisting two strikes in this game. Gotze's double means that Hamburg are now his favourite team to play against, having hit six goals in nine appearances versus the northerners.
Robben is also now having the best club season of his career statistically, having been directly involved in 17 goals in his 17 Bundesliga games – four of them assists. He has 10 goals in his last 10 matches.
For Hamburg, who have not won any of their last 13 competitive matches against Bayern, it was their heaviest league defeat since the Bundesliga was formed in 1963.
In better news for the visitors, their embarrassing loss fell some way short of the heaviest defeat in Bundesliga history. Dortmund's 12-0 humiliation at the hands of Borussia Monchengladbach in April 1978 stands as the biggest ever margin in a top-flight clash in Germany.
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