BAYERN ANSWER FRANK ENQUIRY

BAYERN MUNICH will travel to Dortmund on Tuesday with their lead over Borussia still intact.

But Erling Haaland and Co will relish their chance to reduce the points deficit at the top after Frankfurt exposed Bayern’s defence here.

Hans-Dieter Flick’s side looked like they were about to open the floodgates when they made it 3-0, 35 seconds into the second half.

Leon Goretzka had given them the lead with a thudding first-time finish after Ivan Perisic’s lovely dummy helped free Thomas Muller to cross from the left. Muller then doubled the edge five minutes before the break with a neat finish of his own after good work from Alphonso Davies. And little more than half a minute into the second half, Kingsley Coman’s cross picked out Robert Lewandowski (above) seven yards out and he headed home. But out of nowhere, two dreadful pieces of defending led to two goals for Martin Hinteregger — both of them headers from corners, with Bayern’s zonal marking ripe for picking. Hinteregger headed the ball up in the air and was the only man to react for his first. And he then had a free run to head past Manuel Neuer for his second. For a brief moment, Bayern looked ruffled. But on the hour-mark impressive left-back Davies burst forward, lost the ball to Gelson Fernandes but got it back, and turned it home. Neuer made a good save to deny Mijat Gacinovic, but when substitute Serge Gnabry flicked the ball past keeper Kevin Trapp, Hinteregger got his feet in a tangle to score a comedy own-goal. Dortmund will be a much tougher exam.