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FC Bayern Munich won the reunion with its former top striker Robert Lewandowski.
Against his new club, FC Barcelona, Bayern won 2-0 (0-0) in Munich with goals from Lucas Hernández (51st) and Leroy Sané (54th).
For FC Bayern it was the eighth win in the past nine duels with Barça.
In the Group C table, Bayern are in first place (six points) thanks to the win.
They are followed by Barcelona on three points thanks to a better goal difference than Inter, who beat Viktoria Plzeň earlier in the evening.
The game had only just started again when Bayern took a 2-0 lead with a quick double strike.
First, Hernández was ignored in a corner kick, allowing the FCB defender to head in unhindered at the first post (51').
Right-back Noussair Mazraoui, who came on for the injured Benjamin Pavard, then played to Jamal Musiala, who served Sané.
He pushed through the center and overcame Marc-André ter Stegen with good timing.
The ball rolled past the Barça goalkeeper into the goal (54th).
Barcelona's young midfielder Pedri, who made an outstanding game, missed the best chance of a goal when he failed from just five meters on the post (63).
Barcelona more dangerous in the first half
As clearly as the game ended in favor of Bayern, the hosts could have fallen behind several times in the first half.
The Munich team tried, sometimes desperately, to play their way out of their own half with flat combinations.
That often went wrong.
It became dangerous for the first time in the 9th minute through Pedri.
Returnee Lewandowski had several chances to score against his former team-mates (18', 21', 43').
Bayern, on the other hand, rarely posed a real threat in the first half, with Marcel Sabitzer (30') and Sadio Mané and Thomas Müller, who hindered each other's shots (41'), having the best chances.
Just before the break, the hosts were lucky that Barcelona didn't get a penalty.
On the right, Ousmane Dembélé fell while dribbling against Alphonso Davies.
The slow motion showed that the action could have been counted as a foul, but the video assistant didn't intervene (44').
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