German international Bastian Schweinsteiger has helped lift Bayern Munich to a fighting comeback win over Swiss champions FC Basel in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

The Group E fixture ended 2-1 to last season's competition runners-up despite Basel leading into the early stages of the second half.

Alexander Frei put his side ahead in front of home fans at St Jakob-Park when he curled an unstoppable shot into the top corner ion the 18th minute but that was seemingly the only joy Basel would have for the contest.

Schweinsteiger converted a penalty in the 56th minute after Benjamin Huggel had fouled Thomas Muller in the area before he sidefooted a Holger Badstuber free-kick into the back of the net with just a minute remaining to give Bayern maximum points on the road.

They now lead Group E with six points from their two matches as Basel slumped to their second defeat.

UEFA Champions League Group EFC Basel (SUI): 1 (Alexander Frei 18') Bayern Munich (GER): 2 (Bastian Schweinsteiger (p) 56', 89') Venue: St Jakob-Park, BaselCrowd: approx. 30,000 Referee: Craig Thomson Yellow cards:BAS - Marco Streller 83' BM - Holger Badstuber 28', Toni Kroos 35', Danijel Pranjic 57', Bastian Schweinsteiger 61'

Starting Line-Ups

BAS Franco Costanzo (gk), Beg Ferati, David Angel Abraham, Behrang Safari, Samuel Inkoom, Benjamin Huggel (Cabral 87'), Gilles Yapi Yapo (Almerares 90'), Valentin Stocker, Xherdan Shaqiri (Chipperfield 80'), Alexander Frei, Marco Streller

Subs - Yann Sommer (gk), Scott Chipperfield (80'), Reto Zanni, Fwayo Tembo, Cabral (87'), Federico Almerares (90'), Genseric Kusunga

BM Hans-Jorg Butt (gk), Holger Badstuber, Daniel van Buyten, Danijel Pranjic, Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Mark van Bommel, Miroslav Klose (Tymoschuk 77'), Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos (Olic 56'), Hamit Altintop (Gomez 45')

Subs - Thomas Kraft (gk), Martin Demichelis, Edson Braafheid, Mario Gomez (45'), Andreas Ottl, Ivica Olic (56'), Anatoliy Tymoschuk (77')