Germany’s aristocrats look to be unstoppable

Some teams have a tendency to make you reach for the catechism of cliché, and perhaps inevitably the word that comes to mind about Bayern Munich is blitzkrieg.

In their 5-1 win against Schalke 10 days ago, which set a new Bundesliga record of 15 consecutive victories, they were four goals up after half an hour. They even managed to score Schalke’s goal for them, Rafinha putting the ball into his own net to the fury of Manuel Neuer, who has been looking to break the Bundesliga record for consecutive clean sheets (currently nine).

Schalke admittedly were suffering from shell-shock after their 6-1 defeat by Real Madrid four days earlier, but on Saturday Bayern again demonstrated their ability to blow teams away with their own 6-1 win at Wolfsburg.