Wolfsburg 4-1 Bayern Munich

Neither club had played a competitive game since the weekend before Christmas

Bayern Munich suffered a first meaningful Bundesliga defeat in over two years as they lost to Wolfsburg.

Bayern's only league defeats since October 2012 had come after they wrapped up last season's title but they returned from the six-week winter break in unfamiliar fashion.

Bas Dost opened the scoring after four minutes and volleyed home a second in first-half injury-time.

Kevin De Bruyne scored a goal either side of Juan Bernat's strike.

The result - Bayern's first league defeat since April - sees second-placed Wolfsburg close the gap on the leaders to eight points.

This was Wolfsburg's first competitive game since the death of Belgian midfielder Junior Malanda

There was a minute's applause before the game for 20-year-old Wolfsburg first-team player Junior Malanda, who died in a car crash earlier this month.

And what followed was an equally fine tribute.

Pep Guardiola's Bayern had only conceded four goals in the first half of the Bundesliga season, comprising 17 games before the winter break, but 73 minutes into the second part of the campaign that tally had been doubled.

Wolfsburg took the lead with their first chance of the game as they swiftly counter-attacked after Thomas Muller lost possession near the box, De Bruyne laying the ball across to Dost who slotted home in lots of space.

Both sides squandered chances before Dost, a 25-year-old uncapped Dutch striker, hit a wonderful first-time volley from the edge of the box as an attempted clearance fell into his path.

Wolfsburg started the second half in similar attacking fashion as Daniel Caligiuri fired wide, but they did not have to wait long for goal number three.

De Bruyne - starting his run in the Wolfsburg half - latched onto a Max Arnold through ball, took a few touches and slotted past Manuel Neuer from the edge of the box.

Seconds later a comeback looked a possibility when Naldo miscontrolled the ball to Bernat, who scored into an empty net.

But the expected onslaught never materialised and Wolfsburg's Dost, Arnold and Luiz Gustavo all missed chances for a fourth before De Bruyne killed the match off.

Arnold again played a ball from his own half for the former Chelsea attacking midfielder, who wrong-footed defender Dante before smashing the ball past Neuer into the roof of the net.

Things look poised to get even better for Wolfsburg, who are suddenly back in with an outside shot of the title, with Germany World Cup winner Andre Schurrle expected to join from Chelsea in a £22m deal before transfer deadline day.

Pep Guardiola said after the game: "Congratulations to Wolfsburg, they did really well. We deserved to lose."

The last time Bayern conceded four goals in a league game was in April 2009, again to Wolfsburg - who won 5-1 and went onto win the title

Manuel Neuer was beaten as many times in 73 minutes as in the previous 17 league games

Bas Dost is the first player in 102 Bundesliga games - about three years - to score a brace against Bayern Munich