( CNN ) -- When you 're on a roll , you generally get all the breaks . And when you 're a top football club like Bayern Munich , you make the most of them . The European champion came from behind to win 2-1 at Hoffenheim Saturday , equaling the German Bundesliga 's record run of 36 matches unbeaten . Pep Guardiola 's team can claim sole ownership of that milestone next weekend at home to lowly Augsburg , moving past the mark set by Hamburg 30 years ago . However , the Bavarians will face a slightly tougher test before then in Tuesday 's Champions League trip to Viktoria Plzen , having won the home encounter 5-0 against the Czech side . `` It certainly was n't our best performance , but we 've won it , '' Guardiola said after his team regained a one-point lead at the top of the table . `` Not everything was perfect , and we 'll need to correct the way we 're playing . Meetings with Hoffenheim in recent years have always been close , but we did have a little bit of luck today . '' The pressure was on Bayern following second-placed Borussia Dortmund 's 6-1 hammering of Stuttgart on Friday . The home side had scored more goals this season than any other in the Bundesliga , and extended that when 18-year-old defender Niklas Sule became the youngest player in Hoffenheim history to find the back of the net . However , Bayern equalized before halftime when Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic deflected in Franck Ribery 's low free-kick for his eighth in the league this season , and the Frenchman was also involved as Thomas Muller scrambled a second-half winner from close range . `` We gave a good account of ourselves against the best team in the world , '' said Sule , who capitalized when Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer failed to deal with a corner . `` We held them off well and we had chances of our own . But Bayern have the quality you need to go on and score the winning goal . '' Third-placed Bayer Leverkusen dropped four points behind Bayern , losing 1-0 at bottom club Eintracht Braunschweig thanks to an 81st-minute goal by Congolese striker Domi Kumbela . Braunschweig joined Nuremberg on seven points from 11 games after Bayern 's local rival lost 3-0 at home to Freiburg -- which moved up to third from bottom . Borussia Monchengladbach stayed fourth with a 2-0 win at Hamburg , as striker Max Kruse scored in each half to go to seven this season . Wolfsburg moved up to fifth with a 2-1 win at Eintracht Frankfurt , while sixth-placed Schalke won 2-0 at Hertha Berlin , two points back in seventh place .
Bayern Munich returns to top of German league table with 2 - 0 victory at Hoffenheim . Bavarians equal Hamburg 's record of 36 matches unbeaten from 1982 - 83 . Thomas Muller 's second - half winner puts Bayern a point above Borussia Dortmund . Third - placed Bayer Leverkusen win 1 - 0 at bottom club Eintracht Frankfurt .