Substitute Zirkzee scored in the 86th minute for Bayern to beat Wolfsburg 2-0. Serge Gnabry added another in the 89th while the visitors were still recovering.
Hoffenheim came from behind to score two late goals and win 2-1 against Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.
Dortmund let a two-goal lead slip as Leipzig came from behind to earn a 3-3 draw and maintain their three-point lead at the top.
Philippe Coutinho starred for Bayern Munich as the side ended its two-game losing run in the league with an impressive 6-1 win over Werder Bremen.
Robert Lewandowski scored two and substitute Thomas Müller grabbed the other as Bayern bounced back from successive 2-1 defeats to Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen.
The Bavarian club ended a run of two league losses with a 3-1 win over Tottenham in the Champions League on Wednesday, but has few options ahead of three Bundesliga games in a week.
Left-back Ramy Bensebaini scored both goals for Gladbach, which last won the title in 1977. Bensebaini headed in a corner to draw Gladbach level after Ivan Perisic's volley for Bayern, and then scored the decisive penalty in added time.
Borussia Mönchengladbach is trying to turn back the clock to the 1970s. That was the decade when Gladbach was an unstoppable force in what was then West German soccer, winning five league titles, including three in a row.
Bayer Leverkusen edged past Bayern Munich in a thrilling 2-1 win on Saturday, while a 10-man Dortmund side held on to their lead against Hertha Berlin.
Bayern Munich routed Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-0 away, while Gladbach lost at promoted Union Berlin 2-0.
Marco Reus scored in injury time to salvage a 3-3 draw against last-placed Paderborn, but it wasn’t enough to stop irate supporters raging against the players.
Robert Lewandowski stretched his Bundesliga record by scoring in each of the opening 11 games this season as Dortmund suffered another heavy defeat to Bayern.
Kovac, who coached Frankfurt to a German Cup win over Bayern in 2018, saw his former side end its 16-game winless run against the Bavarian powerhouse.
It was the second consecutive game in which Dortmund failed to score after its meek performance in the 2-0 loss at Inter Milan on Wednesday.
Robert Lewandowski became the first player in the league to score in each of the opening nine games as Bayern Munich went top with a 2-1 win over Union Berlin.
The seven-time defending champion was stunned when Augsburg's Marco Richter scored in the first minute after a one-two with Rani Khedira.
Days after an incredible 7-2 win over Tottenham in the Champions League, Bayern Munich faced a stunning 1-2 defeat to Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.
Lewandowski grabbed the first two goals to take his league-leading tally to nine in five games.
Paco Alcacer, Raphael Guerreiro and Marco Reus were on the scoresheet for Borussia Dortmund as they prepared for their clash against Barcelona in style.
Lewandowski, who joined Bayern from league rival Borussia Dortmund in 2014, has started the season with five goals in two Bundesliga games, making him the only Bayern player to have scored in the league so far.
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