Borussia Dortmund cruised previous Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0, with two objectives coming from Donyell Malen, on Saturday to take over the lead within the Bundesliga from Bayern Munich with 5 matches left within the season.
Dortmund, who final gained the league title in 2012 with then coach Juergen Klopp, scored 3 times within the first half to verify of a club-record ninth straight house sport win that lifted them to 60 factors, one forward of Bayern, who slumped to a 3-1 loss at Mainz 05.
It was the eighth league sport for Frankfurt, the final yr’s Europa League champion, and not using a win and it dropped to ninth, out of rivalry for a European spot.
“We are satisfied with the performance and the result but it is just one, a good one but just one step we took today,” mentioned Dortmund coach Edin Terzic. “Now there are exactly five more steps.
“You could see that every player wanted to show that what we showed last week in the second half was not our standard.”
Dortmund had led 2-0 within the second half after which 3-2 earlier than settling for a 3-3 draw at VfB Stuttgart final week.
“Today’s energy is what we need to take the next five steps. We still have a lot of work in front of us to take those next five steps as successfully as today,” Terzic mentioned.
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Jude Bellingham opened Dortmund’s account within the nineteenth minute after choosing up the ball on the fringe of the field, turning on the spot and firing in.
The host struck once more 5 minutes later however its second objective was far simpler, with keeper Gregor Kobel kicking the ball deep in to the Frankfurt half and Malen slotting in after the ball was headed on twice previous a clueless Frankfurt backline.
Mats Hummels made it 3-0 with a well-timed header from a Raphael Guerreiro cross earlier than Karim Adeyemi’s solo effort arrange Dutch striker Malen for his seventh league objective of the season within the 66th.
