Bundesliga Roundup: Dortmund sends Bayern message with rout of Wolfsburg
BERLIN (AP) — The Bundesliga isn’t over but.
Karim Adeyemi and Jude Bellingham each scored twice for Borussia Dortmund to ship a message to league chief Bayern Munich with a 6-0 rout of Wolfsburg on Sunday.
Sebastien Haller and Donyell Malen additionally scored as Dortmund restored the one-point hole on Bayern with three rounds of the league remaining.
Bayern, the 10-time defending champion, had stretched its result in 4 factors with a win over Werder Bremen on Saturday – piling the stress on Dortmund, which misplaced the lead final weekend with a 1-1 attract Bochum.
Wolfsburg hadn’t conceded in any respect in its earlier three video games, and clocked eight targets of its personal within the final two.
But Adeyemi acquired Dortmund on its means with the opener within the 14th minute, leaping excessive to beat a defender to Julian Ryerson’s cross, then establishing Haller for the second within the twenty ninth.
Inbetween the targets, Dortmund wanted goalkeeper Gregor Kobel at his greatest to disclaim Patrick Wimmer in a one-on-one with Mats Hummels throwing himself in entrance of Jakub Kaminski from the rebound.
Kobel additionally produced an excellent flying save to thwart a goal-ward effort from Kaminski earlier than Julian Brandt arrange Malen for the third objective within the thirty seventh.
Wolfsburg ‘keeper Koen Casteels deflected Bellingham’s shot onto the crossbar however the ball trickled over the road within the 54th, 5 minutes earlier than Adeyemi grabbed his second.
The Germany ahead missed his likelihood for a hat trick when he fired a penalty over the bar within the sixty fifth, however the Dortmund followers and coach Edin Terzic tried consoling him as he went off for Gio Reyna 4 minutes later.
Brandt headed the ball on for Bellingham to finish the rout within the 86th.
