BAYERN MUNICH moved level on points with Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga after a hard-fought 1-0 win over ten-man Hamburg.
Jupp Heynckes' side were made to work for three points at the Imtech Arena as Markus Gisdol's men showed their resilience after Gideon Jung was sent off. The Bavarian club bossed the first half against Die Rothosen, with Kingsley Coman and Arjen Robben both squandering two key chances each.
And when Jung was shown a straight red card in the 39th minute for a foul on Coman, it looked as though Munich would show their class in the closing 45 minutes.
It took just seven minutes after the break for the away side to take the lead, when Tolisso found the bottom right corner from the centre of the box.
The script was set for Munich to run riot, but they could have found themselves on level terms when Andre Hahn and Kyriakos Papadopoulos both forced Sven Ulreich into action. Coman again came close for Munich, before former Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara hit the left post with a strike from distance.
Summer signing Niklas Sule then almost doubled Munich's lead, but his effort from outside the box was inches wide from nestling in the top right corner.
Arturo Vidal, David Alaba and Robert Lewandowski were then all foiled in their efforts to find the back of the net, before Papadopoulos' 91st minute header went agonisingly wide of the left hand post.
The 1-0 victory wasn't enough to send Bayern back to the top of the table, as Dortmund - who drew 2-2 with Eintracht Frankfurt - have a better goal difference.
From The Sun
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