Bayer Leverkusen v Bayern Munich: Bundesliga – live

71 min: Bayern substitution Mathys Tel on, Leon Goretzka off.

70 min There’s a bit more urgency from Bayern now, even if it reeks of desperation. Musiala slithers infield and has a shot that is blocked on the edge of the area.

68 min Leverkusen have had 43 per cent of the possession, which would be their lowest of the season. This is not a criticism: so far they’ve done a textbook number on Bayern.

66 min Kane’s cross from the right is half blocked and reaches Sane in the area. He tries to turn away from Tah (I think), who reads it well and pokes the ball behind for a corner.

65 min: Leverkusen substitution Jeremie Frimpong replaces Nathan Tella, who had a fine game and made the second goal. Stanisic will probably move into midfield.

65 min Tella hits the side netting after yet another superb counter-attack, though he was fractionally offside.

64 min Tapsoba is booked for a tactical foul on Musiala.

63 min: Grimaldo hits the bar from a corner! And I’m pretty sure he meant it. He struck it like a knuckle-ball free-kick, and the ball dipped dramatically to hit the top of the bar with Neuer wondering what the flip was going on. He may have had it covered, though I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.

62 min Goretzka is booked for a foul on Adli. Maybe a bit harsh.

60 min: Bayern substitutions Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich replace Dayot Upamecano and Aleksandar Pavlovic; 4-2-3-1 it is.

59 min The dangerous Tella runs at Kim on the right of the area and cracks a low drive that is comfortably held to his right by Neuer.

59 min Leverkusen have defended really well, and everything about them reeks of quality coaching, but there’s a but coming up. Bayern’s attacking play has been so ponderous, it’s hard to make sense of it.

58 min “It’s not Tuchel,” says Joe Pearson. “It’s the universe having a laugh at Harry Kane. You know it’s true. I wonder if there is a German word about enjoying the pain of others.”

It’ll get even weirder when he wins the European Championship in Germany in the summer.

56 min Bellingol has struck again in Spain, where the would-be disruptors are not having the same success as Leverkusen.

55 min Leverkusen appeal unsuccessfully for a penalty when Dier’s desperate clearance hits the arm of his team-mate Goretzka. It might have been given in England, because his arm wasn’t in an entirely natural position, but not here.

52 min Mazraoui's cross is volleyed over by his fellow wing-back Boey. He got in front of Tapsoba (I think) on the six-yard line, but was off balance and could only launch the ball skyward.

52 min Xabi Alonso made the surprising decision to start Josip Simunic and Nathan Tella today. Simunic scored the first, Tella made the second.

Alex Grimaldo, one of the players of the season, has swept Leverkusen into a 2-0 lead.It came on the break, of course it did, when Upamecano lost a challenge on the halfway line. Eventually Grimaldo cut inside from the left, played an angled pass back towards Tella and kept running. Tella poked a delicious return pass to release Grimaldo, who allowed the ball to run past his body and lifted an emphatic first-time shot into the net.

Tuchel out!

48 min “Gotta admire the Bayern board for the mind-bending decision to boot Nagelsmann and hire Tuchel,” says Yash Gupta. “Tuchel has seen this Bayern side lose in four cup competitions and only won Bundesliga because Dortmund handed him the title on the final day of last season. There needs to be a new term coined for this - Tuchelitis.”

"I’m not a Tuchelexpert but that feels a bit harsh. Without wanting to go all win percentage on you, he’s won something like 22 of his 29 league games at Bayern. Take the point about cups but I thought they played really well in the first leg v Man City last season.

46 min Peep peep! Leverkusen begin the second half, with no changes on either side. Yet.

Harry Kane touched the ball eight times in the first half. None of them were memorable.

“Since I’m a Stuttgart fan, I’m nominally a neutral,” writes Kári Tulinius. “But I’m not, I’m desperate for Leverkusen to win. It’s long since started to be soul-sapping to follow German football, and if Bayern make it twelve in a row, the rest of the Bundesliga might as well just pack it up and go home. Or pack Bayern off to the European Super League.”

Twelve years is a long time in football, and much else besides.

Half-time reading

You won’t believe who’s scored.

Leverkusen are doing a number on Bayern, who have spent most of the half farting around in possession before being exposed in transition. It was a Bayern player, the on-loan Josip Stanisic, who scored the goal, and Manuel Neuer also had to make good saves from Nathan Tella and Kim Min-Jae.

The xG – Leverkusen 1.14-0.13 Bayern – tells the story of the half. So does the actualG.

45+1 min Two minutes of added time.

45 min Bayern have some good options on the bench – Kimmich, Muller, Tel, Guerreiro. If it stays like this Thomas Tuchel will surely revert to a back four, perhaps as early as half-time. Bayern’s ponderous attacking performance has put the ffs in faffs.

42 min: Chance for Adli! Xhaka, deep in his own half, waves a lovely ball with the outside of the boot to put Adli clear of the defence. He moves towards goal from the halfway line but is running through treacle and Upamecano - who was originally at fault when he tried to nick the ball on the halfway line – to get back and make a vital tackle on the edge of the area.

41 min Hincapie wanders forward from defence and pings a drive over the bar from 25 yards. Nicely struck, though Neuer had it covered.

37 min The resulting free-kick eventually leads to a towering header from Adli that is comfortably saved by Neuer.

36 min A frustrated Boey stands on Andrich’s boot and is booked. Bayern aren’t playing well.