Is the title race still on or does it feel like job done for Bayern after they avoided defeat? Pep Guardiola looked furious at the end of the match, but will doubtless be delighted that his side bounced back from defeat against Mainz with an all-action display - to earn a priceless point. Guardiola insists his words with Kimmich were to ensure the youngster acknowledged his defensive handywork, after shutting out one of the best striker’s in Europe, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The Dortmund substitute, Adrian Ramos, could and should have won it for the hosts with his late header but Bayern were guilty of missing their crucial openings too. Arturo Vidal’s second-half effort ended up stroking the bar after Roman Burki managed to save his effort from point-blank range, while Douglas Costa squandered his opportunity, when put through one-on-one against Burki in the first-half. Here’s to a few goals next time. Thanks for reading! Bye!  Pep Guardiola is giving a pep talk. It looks encouraging but he’s not exactly holding back. He ends up cuddling his defender, Joshua Kimmich, only after yelling instructions at the youngster’s face. Ah, ja!  So, the five-point gap still stands in the way of these two Bundesliga heavyweights!  90 min: One minute of added time, nothing more. Dortmund send the ball down field with a direct ball.  89 min: Benatia replaces Alonso. Sahin comes on in place of Gundogan for Dortmund.  88 min: Robben looks to keep hold of the ball near to the corner flag but he’s surrounded by yellow shirts. Dortmund clear while Alonso is down with cramp.  87 min: Aubameyang does brilliantly, he still looks interested. He drives down the right, crosses for the substitute Ramos but his header falls wide. Ramos was pretty much unmarked and he ought to have at least got his effort on target. Big chance, and perhaps the last.  86 min: Everybody’s looking pretty happy. Neither team exactly going for it in the last few minutes.  85 min: Mueller has a half-chance for Bayern. He dribbles around the edge of the box but his effort was always going away from goal.  83 min: Wasteful and Bayern gobble it up. The visitors look pretty content with a point now, a point that would nudge them onto 63 points.  82 min: Lewandowski tries to get on the end of a through ball and is upended by Pizszcek but no foul given. Dortmund go straight up the other end, corner it is.  80 min: Ramos replaces Reus. That was easy to say, but Reus is not a happy chappy about it. Tuchel wants a win, but Dortmund need to go and get it.  78 min: Xabi Alonso has tried an audacious strike at goal, well, audacious for anybody else but him. He’s shot from just inside his own half but Burki is alert to it. Not quite like this one, sadly:  76 min: It comes to nothing but it’s not long before Bayern are back on the attack. Ribery cuts in from the left, before Vidal fires aimlessly over.  75 min: Robben goes on a mazy run down the right hand side, links up with Mueller, who then gives it back. Bayern have a corner.  Franck Ribéry is about to come on here. He started the defeat to Mainz in midweek. Douglas Costa is the man to come off. 74 minutes gone.  72 min: Yep, big chance for Robben. Dortmund’s Weigl is guilty of losing possession, and Robben is presented with an opening inside the box. The ball moves across from left to right, invitingly for the Dutchman, who can only shoot over. Another chance goes missing.  Would Bayern be happy with a point? And would a draw be enough for Dortmund to keep the heat on Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich? Cue the opening goal ...  68 min: It’s bordering on silly that we still have not had a goal here in der Klassiker. Dortmund are sitting a little deeper, but that probably means we can expect a few more incisive counterattacks.  66 min: Hummels launches the ball forward, Reus heads on and Aubameyang strikes ... but it hits the bottom of the stanchion. Great, direct move from Dortmund. The game is heating up, with both teams going close in the last couple of minutes. But, still, no breakthrough ...  64 min: Vidal goes close! Robben whips in the corner, the ball drops to the midfielder, who smashes it at goal. Burki, who knew little about it, tips it on to the bar and manages to keep it out. This has been one of Vidal’s best displays in a Bayern shirt. He’s been a real nuisance.  63 min: Robben weaves in from the right, crosses with his right foot to the back post but Durm does brilliantly to clear for a corner.  60 min: Neuer punches the ball miles to clear Dortmund’s free-kick from the right. Neither team really has a hold on the match as it is, and both sides have been guilty of losing possession cheaply in midfield.  58 min: Alonso has a free-kick but it’s wasteful. Bayern build from the back, starting with Neuer. Robben is slid through but his effort is slightly too high and too wide.  55 min: Götze, who is warming up on the touchline, is ordered to move further away from the Yellow Wall after supposedly winding up the home supporters. He obliges.  54 min: Robben has just had an extremely tame strike at goal. Comes to nothing, but then Muller finds Vidal who nods narrowly wide. The match is poised for a pulsating final 30 minutes here.  Minutes after that big Dortmund chance, Stefan reckons Bayern’s Costa is not top of the class at finishing school. “Well Ben, Douglas Costa is neither Diego Costa nor a “Knipser”, as we call the more lethal strikers over her,” he says.  51 min: Mkhitaryan has a big chance, running in-behind the Bayern defence but he cannot find the required finish.  50 min: Mkhitaryan looks for Gundogan but his ball across the pitch is wayward. A few huffs and puffs from Dortmund.  49 min: Gundogan nabs the ball away from Alonso and kickstarts Dortmund’s move. Schmelzer and Hummels then combine down the left before Mkhitaryan’s pass goes out for a goal kick.  47 min: Early stages of the second-half have started in the same way the first 45 minutes finished. Robben’s ascendency down the right flank has penned Dortmund in for a throw.  The second-half is back underway. Neither side has made changes at the break. Can we expect more counterattacking initiative from each team?  Devyani Ramamoorthy has a warning for the hosts, who as it stands, remain five points behind the Bundesliga leaders. “Dortmund better make the most of their initial incisiveness, because Bayern tend to rue missed chances less than any other other team,” she emails.  That’s the first 45 minutes over, and they’ve been pretty encapsulating, too. Marco Reus has been Dortmund’s best source of danger, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang looks certain to score, if he can eventually lose the attentions of the impressive Joshua Kimmich. But it is Bayern who have squandered the best chance of the match so far. Douglas Costa fired more-or-less straight at Roman Bürki, when presented with a glorious opportunity, with no Dortmund defender in sight and just Roper the goalkeeper to beat. Your thoughts?  44 min: Half-time whistle is approaching. Bayern probably finishing this first period the stronger of the two sides.  42 min: Schmelzer does brilliantly to cut the ball out and away from Müller. The ball falls to Robben, who whips his effort goalwards and is well saved by Bürki. Robben then gets another bite at it before the Dortmund keeper again clears.  41 min: Alaba again is far from comfortable, who allows Neuer to sweep up. He manages to kick the ball clear, just before Aubameyang can run the ball down.  40 min: It comes to nothing and then Alaba is fortunate after failing to deal with the ball over the top. Bayern look to build again.  39 min: Durm concedes a corner for Dortmund, after Müller’s searching ball. He’s looking for Vidal once more, but it’s cleared away.  38 min: Vidal is flagged offside (he’s actually onside) and manages to chest the ball down from Xabi Alonso’s scheduled flight XA451H.  36 min: Mkhitaryan does well again with some neat footwork around the box, but Kimmich intercepts superbly before Costa gets the ball going upfield. Bender then goes into the book for a foul on Lewandowski. We go again.  35 min: Surprise, surprise, another counterattack. Bayern are wide open but Reus is called offside after Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang combine.  In dog news ... Sebastian Schund gets it straight: “Joshua Kimmich was born in Rottweil, Germany. Alaba was born in Vienna and never fails to amuse with his thick Viennese accent.” OK, so what about David Alaba I hear you ask? “Alaba was born in the town where Wiener dogs were invented,” chirps up Michael Gartner. Next?  Costa really should have opened the scoring, but instead his effort made for quite a routine stop in the end. Dortmund’s Yellow Wall roared to celebrate Bürki’s save.  27 min: Bürki does brilliantly! Bayern go straight on the counter, Costa is played in by Robben, who goes through one-on-one with the Dortmund keeper but he fails to shoot with any conviction. Danger cleared. Both teams here look incredibly sharp on the counter.  26 mins: Reus goes down under pressure from the Bayern defender Kimmich, who does superbly to avert any calls for a penalty.  Christopher Faherty has got in touch to have a moan about a bland Bayern defender. And who can blame him? “I cannot think of a more colourless footballer than Juan Bernat,” he says.  22 min: Weigl has just fouled Bernat and immediately asks for the Dortmund midfielder to go into the book. Bayern, you just feel, are getting a little wound-up here. Thomas Müller is growing increasingly frustrated.  21 min: Alonso has just been booked for a nasty looking, studs-showing challenge on Weigl.
Bayern Munich remain five points clear at the top of the Bundesliga after their 0-0 draw with Borussia Dortmund