So, how about that scoreline?

For a second week in a row, we'll be atop the table (because I'm kind of assuming that there's no way that Schalke can make up the 11 points difference in our goal differential tomorrow). And what a convincing win it was!

While Manu Neuer rescued kittens and drank beer in pubs, the rest of the team spent the afternoon pretty much decimating Freiburg in every position, at every moment. As a Bayern fan, it was nice to get up at the crack of dawn and be able to just really enjoy a match, rather than spending the match yelling at my computer in frustration. For Freiburg fans, well...it could have been worse.

So a few highlights:

*Mario Gomez appears to not only want to remain the top goal scorer in the league, but to overtake a certain hat trick record. If you're keeping track, that's two in the last two matches. Glad to see he was fully fit and has no linger effects from the injury that kept him out of international duty. Mario was also the first Bayern player to score four goals in a match since Rumme himself.

*Ribery was great today. He was creative, he seemed at several points to have developed a Messi-like ability to dissolve and re-form on the other side of defenders, and he was helping create chances for others.

*Bastian Schweinsteiger. Need I say more? If you look over the stats of the game (or if you spoke enough German to laugh at the fact that today's commentator was REALLY fond of statistics), Basti was, in a word, dominant. And I know I'm not the only one who loved seeing him with the armband.

*Nils Petersen scored his first goal for Bayern in an official match! Yay Nils! And what a goal it was!

Other than a lack of Tymo, today's performance was pretty much flawless. Which puts us in good shape as we head to Spain this week to play Villareal in our first Champions League group match. That match will be on Wednesday at 2:45pm EDT. If you can't catch the match on Wednesday, Fox Soccer will be showing it at 2:00pm EDT on Wednesday 15 September.

And Robben has been ruled out of Wednesday's match. Seriously, at this point, I'm starting to think we should all just assume he's out for a match and the club should only announce if he's actually fit to play. But in all honesty, he's still young and I hope they let him heal FULLY and COMPLETELY before he's allowed anywhere near a pitch. Between his glass bones and Ivica's tissue paper tendons, we really need to be careful with them.

Oh, and don't forget that we're away at Schalke on Saturday. Should be a good match! I, for one, am hoping for a birthday present in the form of a trouncing on Bayern's part.