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Lewandowski's superb injury-time goal gives Bayern all three points in Bundesliga resumption (Video)

Robert Lewandowski
Lewandowski’s late heroics stunned Freiburg. (Reuters)

Bobby Five Goals is at it again.

Robert Lewandowski, who once scored five goals in just nine minutes against a strong opponent in Wolfsburg, bagged two goals for Bayern Munich on Friday to hand the 26-time German champions a 2-1 away win at Freiburg.

After a month-long layoff, Bayern continued its steady march to a fifth straight Bundesliga title, even if it looked for a while like the Bavarians might face a difficult night. For half an hour, eighth-place Freiburg troubled the visitors, claiming the better of the chances.

Indeed, the Brazilians of Breisgau, as they’re apparently nicknamed, took an audacious lead against the German juggernauts. In just the fourth minute, Janik Haberer was played through the line, took a deft touch and beat Neuer cleanly with his finish.

Bayern didn’t really threaten at all for the first third of the game, as Freiburg had it unexpectedly easy. But towards the end of the first half, Bayern found its groove, and it was that bad man Lewandowski who would win the game with his 13th and 14th league goals of the season in his 17th appearance.

In the 35th minute, he turned and shot but his effort was deflected over by a thigh. On the subsequent corner, however, he side-foot volleyed home to equalize.

Bayern largely controlled the second half, but neither side had much by way of chances. Haberer’s tumble in the box was a blatant dive. And Max Philipp’s long shot for Freiburg swerved just wide.

And so it was left to Lewandowski again to decide the game. In the 91st minute, Franck Ribery chipped a workaday ball into him. Lewie backed up in traffic, jumped, chested the ball down, deadened it with his right and volleyed it with the outside of his left, all before it ever touched the ground. The ball spun off the far post and into the net.

It was a world-class goal, scored in the dying moments of a game played on a frigid night with temperatures in the teens, while a thicket of defenders bore down on him.

It will look like just another win on Bayern’s ledger, a sixth victory in a row since the away loss at Borussia Dortmund – the only defeat of the season in domestic play – as the overwhelming title favorites perhaps look back on another triumphant season.

Following the unambiguous 3-0 defeat of RB Leipzig in Bayern’s final game before the 30-day winter break, Carlo Ancelotti’s team retook the league lead. But it isn’t the straightforward wins that make champions, like the 6-0, 5-0 and 3-0 wins Bayern has already registered so far this season. It’s the points picked up in the tougher games, after month-long layoffs in the bitter cold, in away games wherein you go behind early.

Bayern Munich is back in the driver’s seat in the Bundesliga, in considerable part because Robert Lewandowski is scoring classic Robert Lewandowski goals.

Leander Schaerlaeckens is a soccer columnist for Yahoo Sports. Follow him on Twitter @LeanderAlphabet.