Berlin [Germany], October 11: Bayern Munich drew 2-2 at Augsburg on Saturday after conceding the fastest Bundesliga goal in history following a Manuel Neuer howler.
Robin Fellhauer scored after just 8 seconds when Neuer's attempt to chip him ended up with the ball bouncing back off the Augsburg player and into his path.
Ismael Saibari levelled early in the second half but Rodrigo Ribeiro, after another questionable Neuer decision, soon put the hosts back ahead. Bayern had three goals ruled out for offside before Nathaniel Brown's first league goal for the visitors sealed a point.
"Yes of course, it was a stupid mistake by me," Neuer told broadcaster Sky.
"I tried to find a solution, but I should have made a different decision. I clearly take responsibility for that."
The champions looked rusty in their first game following the long international break and missed the chance to go top following leaders Borussia Dortmund drawing 2-2 at home to Werder Bremen on Friday.
Third-placed Freiburg can go above the big two and reach the summit if they beat Schalke on Sunday.
Bayer Leverkusen rose to fourth after a wild 4-3 victory at Mainz.
The Werkself were 2-0 up through Robert Andrich and Patrik Schick, but Anthony Caci's double before the break brought the hosts level.
England defender Jarell Quansah and Mousa Diaby, with his first league goal back in Leverkusen colours, put the away side 4-2 up on 55 and 65 minutes before Benedict Hollerbach's late goal for Mainz.
Christopher Nkunku scored a first-half hat-trick as RB Leipzig battered mid-table Eintracht Frankfurt 6-0 in the late game. The fifth-placed hosts, with mixed results under new coach Martín Demichelis before the international break, were 2-0 up in the first 5 minutes.
Union Berlin won their first league game of the season 1-0 over promoted Elversberg and VfB Stuttgart prevailed 2-0 at newcomers Paderborn thanks to Jeff Chabot and Chris Führich. SV Hamburg left it late to beat ten-man Hoffenheim 3-2 away but lost captain Nicolai Remberg to a knee injury.
Bottom side Borussia Monchengladbach and new coach Alexander Blessin visit neighbours Cologne on Sunday.
Gamble paid off Augsburg, in sixth spot, made a flying start in the Bavarian derby as Fellhauer beat the previous record of 9 seconds set by Kevin Volland in 2015 and Karim Bellarabi a year earlier.
Volland's goal had also been against Bayern for Hoffenheim. More recently, the last three times Bayern conceded in the opening minute have all come at Augsburg, who also beat the champions in Munich last term.
Bayern passed the ball back to Neuer from the kick-off and Fellhauer's gamble to close him down paid off.
"It is indescribable to be part of something so big," Fellhauer told Sky as he was congratulated by Volland and Bellarabi on air. "We would have liked to have got more out of it, but when you look at the game I think we can be very happy with the point."
Neuer, who could retire at the end of the season after he turns 41, held his hands up to apologize to his team-mates following one of the biggest errors of his illustrious career.
Bayern, without right back Konrad Laimer after he became a father and the injured Jamal Musiala, were behind for the first time in the league this season and laboured for the rest of the first half.
Harry Kane hit the bar just before the break and the German double winners, who visit Norway's Viking in the Champions League on Tuesday, only really came to life in the second period.
Luís Diaz thought he had benefitted from another goalkeeping mistake by Finn Dahmen only for an earlier offside to rule out the equalizer.
Bayern argued it had been a new phase and the goal should have stood, but they did not have to wait long for the leveller as Saibari smartly finished off Kane's pass.
Ribeiro then struck after Neuer had palmed Calvin Brackelmann's shot out to him. The assistant's flag thwarted Bayern again and again, but Brown struck on 80 from another Kane assist.
Source: Qatar Tribune
