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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23534654" data-attributes="member: 158020">Drochtersen/Assel 0 Bayern Munich 1:  Lewandowski spares Bayern's blushes  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/18/17/4F30066A00000578-0-image-a-62_1534610172598.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Robert Lewandowski's goal eight minutes from time spared Bayern Munich’s  blushes as they toiled against fourth-tier side Drochtersen/Assel in the  DFB-Pokal before winning 1-0.   Niko Kovac named arguably his strongest side possible but his team struggled  to create chances against diligent and organised opponents until late on.Thomas  Muller thought he had opened the scoring with 12 minutes to go, only for Franck  Ribery to be adjudged offside, before Lewandowski finally put Bayern ahead by  diverting Leon Goretzka's shot home.  Nevertheless, it was hardly a convincing performance from Kovac's men  ahead of their Bundesliga opener next week.   Bayern's big guns had been rolled out at the Kehdinger Stadion but they were  limited to few opportunities.Javi Martinez had a header cleared off the line and  Mats Hummels nodded over, yet Drochtersen/Assel were otherwise comfortable in  the first half.They even threatened themselves when Manuel Neuer, on his 300th  Bayern appearance, saved from Florian Nagel with his feet.   It was more of the same after the break and within six minutes Kovac called  for Kingsley Coman and Goretzka from the bench.Thiago Alcantara then saw a  shaped shot from range crash back off the crossbar and fall the right side of  the line from a Drochtersen/Assel perspective.   The fourth-tier side would have welcomed a break to regroup and they got  one as Bayern fans threw beachballs and tape onto the pitch in an apparent  protest.Play eventually restarted, after substitute Sandro Wagner had appealed  for calm, and Bayern lost momentum.   Facing extra-time, Bayern finally had the ball in the net when Muller poked  in Coman's cross only for a hurdling Ribery to be deemed offside.Yet Kovac's  side found a way through again shortly after. After good work from Ribery,  Goretzka fired in a shot and Lewandowski stuck out a leg to divert the ball into  the net, as Bayern breathed a sigh of relief.</blockquote>

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