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Leroy Sane (right) set up two goals for Serge Gnabry (left) and then scored one himself
Serge Gnabry scored a hat-trick and Leroy Sane scored on his Bayern Munich debut when they opened the new Bundesliga season with a demolition of Schalke.
Leroy Sane, who made his debut after a £ 44.7 million move from Manchester City, assisted in two of Gnabry’s goals.
Hansi Flick’s team has won 22 matches in a row.
Robert Lewandowski, Leon Goretzka, Thomas Muller and Jamal Musiala, 17, all scored their other goals.
Bayern’s record is now 30 wins and a draw since their last loss in any competition on December 7. They won last season’s hat-trick in the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the Champions League.
Schalke, by contrast, have not won in the Bundesliga since January 17 and lost seven of their nine games after the restart of the 2019-20 season.
Bayern had hoped to have a crowd of 7,500 for the season opener, with clubs in some states allowed to have fans this weekend, but that was blocked by the mayor of Munich.
Gnabry scored in the fourth minute when he found space outside the box before heading home, and Bayern never looked back.
This was the biggest victory a team has achieved in the first Bundesliga weekend.
Goretzka drove a second low since Muller’s firing and Lewandowski scored a penalty after he was fouled.
The 32-year-old Pole scored 55 goals in 47 games last season.
Sane then prepared Gnabry to score on an empty net from 20 yards for his second goal. They paired up again with Gnabry passing the ball through the goalkeeper’s legs.
Muller scored next when he flew home from a Lewandowski rabona center.
German international Sane ran for a direct pass from the midline before conceding. That was his first club goal since scoring for City against Manchester United in a 2-0 derby win in April 2019.
Teen Musiala, who played two minutes last season, came off the bench and attacked from the wing before adding an eighth. He is Bayern’s youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history.
That was the second time Bayern had scored eight goals in a match this year, after crushing Barcelona 8-2 in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
