Bayern Munich takes one other step nearer to thirty second German league title
Bayern Munich gained 3-0 at struggling Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday to take one other step towards a record-extending thirty second German league title, transferring 9 factors forward of second-place Borussia Dortmund with 4 video games left.
The Bundesliga race may very well be determined when the groups meet in Munich subsequent Saturday.
It was an anticipated however welcome win for Bayern after a shock elimination by Spanish facet Villarreal within the Champions League quarterfinals.
“In the end, the first 20 minutes were a good indicator of how we come out of this week,” Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann mentioned. “It was a deserved win and important that we got the chance to seal the title against Dortmund.”
Bayern led after 11 minutes when Danish defender Jacob Barrett Laursen scored an own-goal below stress from league prime scorer Robert Lewandowski.
The aim was awarded following a video replay which confirmed Lewandowski was not offside when he went to satisfy Joshua Kimmich’s move.
Serge Gnabry scored the second aim — additionally awarded following a VAR evaluate — within the eighth minute of first-half stoppage time from one other move by Kimmich.
The first half was delayed close to the top when Arminia’s Fabian Kunze was stretchered off injured after taking an elbow throughout an aerial problem.
Bayern was hardly ever troubled by a facet which has scored solely 23 objectives, 9 lower than Lewandowski has managed himself. Lewandowski, who has netted almost 350 objectives for the membership general, is in talks over a brand new contract, along with his present deal expiring on the finish of subsequent season.
He arrange Jamal Musiala for the third aim within the eighty fifth.
Arminia mentioned that about 10 minutes from the top of the match a fan needed to be “resuscitated” within the stands and was taken to the hospital after being stabilized.
OTHER RESULTS
Leipzig leapfrogged Bayer Leverkusen for third place with a 1-0 win in Leverkusen.
Dominik Szoboszlai scored the winner within the 69th to provide Leipzig its third straight win in all competitions. The membership is unbeaten in 9 consecutive league video games.
Leverkusen was coming off two wins and a attract its final three video games.
Sixth-place Union Berlin constructed on its derby win over Hertha Berlin with a 2-0 victory towards Eintracht Frankfurt.
Eintracht, coming off a win over Barcelona within the quarterfinals of the Europa League, was one in all solely two Bundesliga groups that Union had did not beat at residence because it earned promotion in 2019. Bayern is the opposite.
Last-place Greuther Fürth drew 0-0 at eighth-place Hoffenheim. Fürth is 12 factors from security and solely has a mathematical probability of avoiding relegation.
On Saturday, striker Erling Haaland scored twice as Dortmund routed Wolfsburg 6-1 to keep up its very skinny probabilities of catching Bayern.
