Ten-man Bayern Munich crashed to their first defeat of the season as they were humbled 3-1 by defending Bundesliga champions VfB Stuttgart on Saturday, but keep their place at the top of the table.
Two goals by Mario Gomez - scorer of a double in their 4-2 defeat by Lyon in the Champions League on Wednesday - and a wonder strike by Turkish international Yildiray Basturk at Stuttgart's Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion meant the leaders were in the shock situation of being 3-0 down at half-time.
Bayern had only conceded four league goals before this game and Stuttgart took the lead when Germany's player of the year Gomez met a cross at the far post and the ball went in off his hip on 10 minutes.
A net-buster of a shot from 30 metres by Basturk made it 2-0 before a bicycle kick from Brazilian Cacau was tapped back by Roberto Hilbert into the path of Gomez on 42 minutes who made it 3-0. Bayern's coach Ottmar Hitzfeld responded by swapping Lukas Podolski after an ineffective first-half with German international strike partner Miroslav Klose, the top scorer at last year's World Cup and adjusting his midfield.
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