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Lewandowski Shines With Brace Against Borussia Dortmund In Klassiker

Ballon d’Or Best Striker winner Robert Lewandowski scored a brace as Bayern Munich opened up a four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga with a nervy 3-2 win at second-placed Borussia Dortmund on Saturday evening.

The duo of Julian Brandt and Erling Haaland scored Dortmund’s goals at Signal Iduna Park, but former Dortmund hero Lewandowski netted and converted the winning penalty, either side of a Kingsley Coman goal.

Dortmund coach Marco Rose was shown a red card for his remonstration as the referee awarded a penalty to the German champions after a Mats Hummels handball led to Lewandowski converting the key spot-kick 12 minutes from time.

This was Bayern’s seventh straight win over Dortmund, including five Bundesliga victories and two German Super Cup triumphs.

Dortmund were unhappy to not be awarded a penalty after Marco Reus appeared to be fouled just before Lewandowski’s crucial spot kick.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.