The previews for the 2025/26 Bundesliga season showed that Bayern Munich would have a less difficult mission in winning another league title in Germany due to the strengthening of their squad with significant investment and, above all, the fall in the technical level of Bayer Leverkusen. However, not even the most confident of fans could have expected that their Bundesliga opener would be a flawless 6-0 thrashing of RB Leipzig.
Flawless Bayern Munich crush RB Leipzig to launch Bundesliga campaign
Highly dominant in all phases of the game and with enormous attacking volume, the reigning champions showed no difficulties and occupied the attacking field for the entire match. RB Leipzig even held off the pressure for 27 minutes, but after several shots, Bayern finally opened the scoring after a ball recovered in midfield and a quick exchange of passes, when Stanisic was flicked on in the area and the ball reached Olise, who shot first time and opened the scoring.
Keeping up the intensity, Bayern Munich then extended their lead thanks to another enthralling combination from the left into the middle. Gnabry stepped up and laid the ball off for Luis Díaz to score his first Bundesliga goal. Just before the break, Gnabry took advantage of a corner kick and broke free of two defenders to set up Olise, who burst into the box and hit the ball past the keeper.
After three, Vincent Kompany's side came back down a gear in the second half, but kept control of the action and took their chances. In the 64th minute, Luis Díaz received a beautiful gift and faced his marker for Harry Kane to leave his marker on the ground in the most beautiful goal of the match. Kane then scored again after a pass from Luis Diaz, and to complete the merciless rout, Kim Min-Jae raced through the middle and confirmed Harry Kane's hat-trick, in a match that confirmed Bayern's enormous favoritism in the Bundesliga.