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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24132774" data-attributes="member: 158020">Hoffenheim 1 Bayern Munich 3:  Goretzka goals close gap on Bundesliga's return  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/18/22/wire-8711704-1547850459-920_634x495.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Leon Goretzka's maiden Bundesliga brace guided Bayern Munich to a hard-earned  3-1 win at Hoffenheim in their first fixture of 2019.Victorious in each of their  final five league matches last year, the defending champions picked up where  they left off as Goretzka struck twice in 12 first-half minutes.    Hoffenheim took a 10-match unbeaten streak into Friday's encounter but were  unable to build on Nico Schulz's fine 59th-minute strike in Julian Naglesmann's  100th match at the helm in Germany's top flight.  Robert Lewandowski provided the knockout blow three minutes from the end  to trim Borussia Dortmund's advantage back to three points ahead of the  league-leaders' tricky trip to fourth-placed RB Leipzig on Saturday.   Bayern began brightly and threatened through Lewandowski and Thomas Muller  inside the opening 20 minutes.Mats Hummels should have gone one better, but  failed to poke past goalkeeper Oliver Baumann amid a scramble in the  box.Goretzka eventually made the dominance count with a quickfire double.   He broke the deadlock in the 34th minute with a deflected close-range finish  after Baumann saved Lewandowski's initial header, before David Alaba's  inch-perfect cross enabled the midfielder to cap a swift counter-attack in  first-half stoppage time.   Hoffenheim were more competitive after the interval and it did not take long  for Joelinton to draw Manuel Neuer into a smart low save, the follow-up to which  Kerem Demirbay dragged wide.Neuer, though, was given no chance with the next  effort as wing-back Schulz speared an unerring drive into the bottom-left corner  from 20 yards.   The hosts pressed with renewed hope and an Adam Szalai header drew a crucial  denial from the Bayern captain, but the comeback was extinguished when Muller  intelligently turned James Rodriguez's dinked pass into Lewandowski's path for  the sealer.</blockquote>

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