Bayer Leverkusen tightened their grip on second place within the Bundesliga as they cruised to a 2-0 victory at struggling Holstein Kiel on Saturday whereas Serhou Guirassy hit 4 targets as “euphoric” Borussia Dortmund routed Union Berlin 6-0. The victory allowed German champions Leverkusen to chop Bayern Munich’s benefit to 5 factors earlier than the leaders host third-place Frankfurt on Sunday. Bayern had floor out a 0-0 draw at Leverkusen within the earlier spherical and the groups have been drawn to satisfy within the Champions League spherical of 16, with the primary leg on March 5.
Leverkusen dominated at last-place Kiel. The guests took the lead after 10 minutes. Home goalkeeper Timon Weiner pushed a cross from Amine Adli to Patrik Schick, who tapped house.
Adli added a second on the stroke of half time, gathering a go from Florian Wirtz and chipping Weiner.
Leverkusen have now gone 28 away video games with out defeat, a report for the membership.
However, it was a statistic which didn’t excite coach Xavi Alonso.
“It’s not an important factor and we do not get a medal for it,” stated Alonso.
“But it implies that we’re very steady and that we now have a high mentality. We do not wish to cease now, we wish to maintain going.”
Mainz moved as much as fifth with a 2-0 house victory over St Pauli.
Lee Jae-sung poked house a rebound to present the hosts a 67th minute lead. Paul Nebel hit the second on a breakaway deep into added time.
In Moenchenglabach, house goalkeeper Jonas Omlin was despatched off after 28 minutes for bringing down Phillip Tietz who was operating in unchallenged at objective.Â
French striker Alexis Claude-Maurice made Borussia pay with a 15-minute second-half hat-trick as Augsburg gained 3-0.Â
Dortmund trounced Union Berlin 6-0 with 4 targets from Serhou Guirassy which took his season tally within the Bundesliga to 13.
Dortmund, who’re nonetheless concerned within the Champions League and face Lille within the final 16 subsequent month, are tenth within the desk with 32 factors.
“Everyone is relieved, we’ve not seen the spectators so euphoric in a very long time,” Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl instructed Sky.
“Serhou placed on an enormous present.
An personal objective from Diogo Leite gave Dortmund a Twenty fifth-minute lead with Maximilian Beier including the sixth within the closing moments.
Bochum crept out of the underside two with a 1-1 draw at Wolfsburg, the place each targets got here from headers after corners.Â
Erhan Masovic gave the guests a fiftieth minute lead. Mattias Svanberg compelled house an 81st minute leveller.
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