Roma fans’ race shame
BAYERN MUNICH crashed to their heaviest Bundesliga defeat for a decade with a 5-1 humiliation at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Under-pressure Bayern boss Niko Kovac was left fighting for his job after the latest loss.
On a day to forget the defending champions slipped behind leaders Borussia Moenchengladbach, who won 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen.
Bayern’s biggest league loss since 2009, when they crashed at Wolfsburg by the same score, was sparked by Jerome Boateng’s early red card.
Boateng brought down Goncalo Paciencia as the last
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man with wi just nine minutes on the cloc clock.
Booked for the challenge, which happened outside the box, referee Markus Schmidt went to the side of the pitch to review the decision before changing his mind to send off the defender.
Frankfurt took advantage when
Filip Kostic tucked home a deflected shot for the 25thminute opener.
The lead was then extended eight minutes later when Djibril Sow finished off a well-worked move.
Bayern were on the ropes before Robert Lewandowski, who has scored in every game
BARCELONA’S second-half collapse saw them crash to a shock 3-1 defeat at Levante.
Ernesto Valverde’s champions conceded three goals in seven second-half minutes.
Lionel Messi (below) had put the visitors ahead with a 38th-minute penalty following Jorge Miramon’s foul on Nelson Semedo.
Jose Campana levelled for Levante after 60 minutes, before Borja
Mayoral and Nemanja Radoja added a second and third.
VAR denied Messi with
Antoine Griezmann offside. across all competitions so far this season, threw the visitors a 37th-minute lifeline.
But that was as good as it got as keeper Manuel Neuer conceded three more times in the second half.
First David Abraham struck before Martin Hinteregger headed home.
And the rout was complete when Paciencia struck late on to heap more pain on Bayern.
The biggest win of the day though went to RB Leipzig, who hammered Mainz 8-0, with in-demand striker Timo Werner (above) helping himself to a hat-trick.
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AS ROMA’S match was temporarily suspended yesterday after Kalidou Koulibaly (above) was racially abused by fans.
Referee Gianluca Rocchi halted the Serie A game against Napoli following the chants.
The official used the speaker in the Stadio Olimpico in a bid to stop the abuse. After a brief break, Roma went on to win 2-1 thanks to Nicolo Zaniolo and Jordan Veretout’s spot-kick, with Arek Milik replying for the visitors.
But the game was overshadowed by the abuse – and it is not the first time Napoli’s Senegal defender has been targeted in Italy.