The German champion in the past ten seasons opened the scoring through Senegalese striker Sadio Mane (29), before Mainz hit back with a hat-trick thanks to French striker Ludovic Ajork (65), Luxembourgish Leandro Barreiro Martins (73) and Spanish substitute Aaron Martin Caricol (79).
Bayern, who suffered its fourth loss this season, froze at 59 points, two points ahead of Borussia Dortmund, who has the opportunity to take the lead if it beats its guest Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of this evening’s competitions.
On the other hand, Mainz, who had not lost since February 11, advanced to sixth place temporarily, with 45 points, to compete with the Danish coach Bo Svenson for European positions.
And the failures of the Bavarian giant, who is going through a difficult period, followed with the arrival of his new coach, Thomas Tuchel, instead of Julian Nagelsmann, who was dismissed from his duties, as he exited the local cup and then from the quarter-finals of the European Champions League against Manchester City (lost 0-3 in the first leg and drew 1-1 in the forth). .
Tuchel made several changes to the starting line-up after the tie against City, keeping French Kingsley Coman and Leroy Sané on the bench, and replacing Canadian Alfonso Davis, Manet and Thomas Mueller. He also missed the efforts of Frenchman Benjamin Pavard to be suspended, who was added to the absence of compatriot Lucas Hernandez and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer due to injury.
Mane scored a goal with a “Loeb” drop ball after confronting goalkeeper Robin Zentner after a deep pass from Jamal Musiala, but the referee rejected it due to the offside of the Senegalese striker (15).
Bayern suffered a moral blow after Tuchel was forced to remove Davis after suffering an injury, and to introduce Moroccan defender Nosair Mazraoui in his place 10 minutes after the whistle at the start of the first half.
Bayern waited for the 29th minute to open the scoring after a solo effort from Portuguese Joao Cancelo on the left side, to pass a cross to the second post, followed by Mane’s header into the net, in his seventh goal this season in the “Bundesliga”.
And from a fatal mistake by the Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer, who escaped a ball shot by South Korean Jae-Sung Lee from inside the area, and it reached the striker Ajurk, who followed it into the net (65).
Mainz added the second, after pressure from the Austrian, Karim Onicevo, on Bayern’s Croatian defender, Josep Stanisic, to pass the first ball to Martins at the penalty mark, which he easily followed into the net (73).
Tuchel pushed the young 17-year-old French striker Matthijs Till and the Dutchman Ryan Gravenburch instead of veteran Mueller and Joshua Kimmich (74) to give a dose of confidence, but Bayern fell into the ban by receiving his third after a left shot from inside the area to substitute Martin Karikol (79).
Wolfsburg returned to the winning streak after two draws and a loss by sweeping Bochum 5-1.
Cologne beat Hoffenheim 3-1, while Werder Bremen deepened the wounds of bottom club Hertha Berlin by defeating it 4-2.
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