Defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich showed everyone why they are the best team in Germany as they beat previously unbeaten Freiburg 2-1 in the German League on Saturday. The game will be best remembered for Robert Lewandowski scoring his 60th goal of the year to make a case for the Ballon d’Or.

Lewandowski knocked the ball into the back of the net from close range in the 76th minute of the game after stretching to redirect Leroy Sané’s attempted shot. Of the 60 goals he has scored in 2021, 51 have come for Bayern and nine for Poland. Lewandowski had set a new single-season scoring record for the Bundesliga with 41 goals in 2020-21.

Leon Goretzka drew the first blood in the game to give Bayern the lead in the 30th minute off a slick team passing move. He could have scored more in the second half, when he hit the post with one shot and clipped the crossbar with another.

Janik Haberer ensured that Bayern got a nervy finish when he got Freiburg back into the game in added time as Bayern conceded its 10th goal in four games in all competitions.

In other games around Germany, striker Lukas Nmecha scored the only goal of the game in Wolfsburg’s 1-0 win over Augsburg just a day after getting his first call-up to the German national team.

Nmecha headed in off Paulo Otavio’s cross in the 14th to score in his third successive game in the Bundesliga and Champions League. That kept up new coach Florian Kohfeldt’s winning start at Wolfsburg after a 2-0 win at Bayer Leverkusen last week and a 2-1 defeat of Salzburg in the Champions League.

Borussia Dortmund, who are second to Bayern in the Bundesliga table, visits Leipzig later Saturday for a crucial matchup in the German top flight.