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Bayern Munich closing in on recording new Bundesliga points record

Bayern Munich are two wins short of beating their own end-of-year record in the Bundesliga.

Bayern's top-flight dominance continued at the weekend when they put four past Augsburg in the last 32 minutes of the game to record a 4-0 victory. They have now gone without defeat in 19 consecutive league games, and have only conceded three goals in the first 15 matches of the season.

Pep Guardiola's side have also now opened a nine-point gap at the top of the table and already won the Herbstmeisterschaft -- the unofficial title for the best Bundesliga team after the first half of the campaign -- for a fourth consecutive year, which is another record.

Should Bayern pick up six points from their remaining two games of 2014 against Freiburg and at Mainz, they will set a new Bundesliga record of having 45 points at the end of a calendar year.

Last season, Bayern claimed 44 points but only played 16 games, with their final league match of 2013 postponed because of their participation in the FIFA Club World Cup.

"On our path to the championship we can't avoid that title, even more so if we want to win many points," Bayern forward Thomas Muller told kicker. "We don't win a prize for it, it's only an unofficial title."

Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer, who has conceded only one goal in his last 13 Bundesliga games, echoed Muller's comments.

"The Herbstmeisterschaft does not decide anything but proves the way we have improved," he added in kicker.

Guardiola told a news conference: "Our players have won everything. They play every third day and win, win, win."

And attacker Robert Lewandowski, who struck his seventh Bundesliga goal for Bayern against Augsburg, told Sky Deutschland: "That title doesn't mean anything to me. It's just important that we win our two games until Christmas."

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