The reigning champions beat Nurnberg 3-0 on Saturday, but remain nine points adrift of leaders Borussia Dortmund as they continue to play catch-up <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich has revealed his excitement at being involved in such a challenging Bundesliga campaign.<\/p>\n
Niko Kovac’s side moved up to second place with a 3-0 victory over their Bavarian rivals Nurnberg, but they remain nine points behind leaders Borussia Dortmund, who\u00a0beat Schalke 2-1.<\/p>\n
Kimmich’s corner set up Robert Lewandowski’s opener, with\u00a0the Poland striker adding a second before the half-hour \u2013 Franck Ribery’s first league goal of the season adding further gloss late on.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n And the youngster, who went agonisingly close to adding a fourth in stoppage time with a long-range strike that rattled the crossbar, is relishing the task of catching up with Dortmund.<\/p>\n “I have never experienced anything like this season,” Kimmich told Bayern’s official website<\/em>.<\/p>\n “Last season we were a bit behind, but this season the gap is bigger.<\/p>\n “Dortmund have\u00a0won again.\u00a0That’s why the season is really exciting.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Now we have another situation and this can\u00a0show if we also have guys in the team to play in this\u00a0situation.”<\/p>\n Kovac named an unchanged side for Saturday’s encounter at Allianz Arena, and the Bayern boss’ faith was justified by a dominant display.<\/p>\n “We have allowed almost nothing for over 90 minutes,” Kovac told Bayern’s official website.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We ourselves had many possibilities. I am satisfied with the performance. It was important that we did not lose the lead.<\/p>\n “Positive results are always important. We have now won three games in a row,\u00a0I am satisfied.”<\/p>\n Kovac’s focus will now switch to the Champions League clash with Ajax on Wednesday, with top spot in Group E\u00a0at stake.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The reigning champions beat Nurnberg 3-0 on Saturday, but remain nine points adrift of leaders Borussia Dortmund as they continue to play catch-up Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich has revealed his excitement at being involved in such a challenging Bundesliga campaign. Niko Kovac’s side moved up to second place with a 3-0 victory over their Bavarian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n