If there were any questions as to how Bayern Munich were going to compensate for the loss of Robert Lewandowski, they were answered emphatically on Friday night as the German champions inflicting a devasting defeat on Eintracht Frankfurt.

Senegalese striker Sadio Mane, who arrived this summer as an indirect replacement for the Polish hitman, was on the scoresheet with his first Bundesliga goal – and Bayern’s third in a 6-1 rout.

Joshua Kimmich opened the scoring, firing a free-kick through the smoke from the Frankfurt ultras’ pyrotechnics to wrong-foot Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp after just five minutes. Shortly after, Benjamin Pavard fired home unmarked in the box from a corner, with Frankfurt defenders all caught following the ball.

The next three goals all involved Mane, first heading home from a Serge Gnabry cross, then winning the ball ahead of a Jamal Musiala tap-in, and then winning another 50-50 battle with Frankfurt captain Sebastian Rode to help set up Gnabry for Bayern’s fifth.

Frankfurt scored a consolation goal through Kolo Muani, the new French arrival from Nantes capitalising on a rare Manuel Neuer error to slide the ball into the empty net.

But it changed nothing as Musiala, who ran rings around Frankfurt’s midfield in the first half, capped the rout with a second goal late on.

• A DW report