Robert Lewandowski scored twice as injury-hit Bayern Munich romped to a 3-0 league win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday ahead of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final at Porto.
Despite having only four fit players on the bench, Bayern dominated at the Allianz-Arena and are three wins from claiming a third straight Bundesliga title.
Lewandowski, the league’s top goalscorer last season, now has 16 goals for the season and is third in the current rankings.
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Frankfurt were missing the league’s top scorer with Alexander Meier, who has 19 goals in 26 matches, out with a knee injury.
Despite their woes, Bayern needed just 15 minutes to take the lead when Lewandowski produced a classy turn and volley, then headed home, with suspicion of offside, on 66 minutes.
Mueller added the third eight minutes from time when he fired home from a tight angle.
Second-placed VfL Wolfsburg remain ten points behind Bayern and on course for the UEFA Champions League next season after their 2-0 win at ten-man Hamburg SV.
Goals either side of half-time by midfielder Josuha Guilavogui and right winger Daniel Caligiuri sealed Wolfsburg’s win.
Borussia Moenchengladbach picked up their fourth straight league win with an impressive 3-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund. Tenth-placed Dortmund went behind after just 29 seconds as Patrick Herrmann’s shot was blocked by Borussia’s Roman Weidenfeller, but defedner Oscar Wendt slammed home the parry.
Brazilian forward Raffel added their second on 32 minutes before Norway’s Havard Nordveit fired home when left unmarked at the far post with 67 minutes gone, before Ilkay Gundogan pulled a late goal back for Dortmund.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen enjoyed a 3-2 win over FSV Mainz 05 leaving them in fourth in the battle for one of the Bundesliga’s three automatic UEFA Champions League places for next season.
Fifth-placed Schalke 04 drew 0-0 with relegation-threatened SC Freiburg, while Augsburg stayed in sixth spot despite their shock 2-1 defeat at SC Paderborn 07.
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