Football
Stephan Uersfeld, Germany correspondent 9y

Kevin Volland: Scoring fastest goal against Bayern Munich 'worth nothing'

Hoffenheim attacker Kevin Volland scored the fastest goal in Bundesliga history against Bayern Munich on Saturday but saw his team fall to a last-gasp defeat.

His goal, which came after 9.3 seconds, gave Hoffenheim the perfect start but was not enough as Bayern battled to a 2-1 victory thanks to Robert Lewandowski's late winner.

Germany international Volland scored with his first touch of the match when he intercepted a David Alaba pass and fired the ball past Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

"It was Bayern's error, an invitation," Volland said on the official Bundesliga website. "Manuel Neuer slipped as he went for the ball, but I was lurking in the right place.

"We wanted to get straight at them and the rest is about instinct. You don't really think about it."

However, he added that beating the previous record of 9.6 seconds, set by Bayer Leverkusen's Karim Bellarabi in August last year, "was, in the end, worth nothing."

Bayern equalised through Thomas Muller shortly before half-time, but they had appeared to be in serious trouble when Jerome Boateng was shown a second yellow card for a handball in his own penalty area on 73 minutes.

However, Eugen Polanski hit the post from the ensuing penalty and Pep Guardiola's men snatched a winner in stoppage time.

Bayern midfieleder Mario Gotze, who played the full 90 minutes, told the club's official website: "This kind of win is the best."

Club captain Philipp Lahm added: "We showed real passion, especially with 10 men against 11. It proved we were absolutely determined to win here."

Neuer, meanwhile, said Bayern were deserving winners.

He told reporters: "We never lost our calm. We were the better and more dominant side, had the better chances even when we were down to 10. It would have been a bad joke had we returned home with a draw. It was a victory of our philosophy."

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