Bayern now stand 10 points clear of second place Borussia Dortmund with only four games to play, although Dortmund can reduce that gap to 7 points if they win their Bundesliga fixture this afternoon against Hamburg.
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Bayern Munich’s head coach Pep Guardiola reacts during the German first division Bundesliga football match against Schalke 04 in Munich, Germany, on April. 16, 2016.
Bayer Leverkusen climbed to third place as they secured a comfortable 3-0 home win over relegation-threatened Eintracht Frankfurt.
They head into their game this weekend with 5 wins in their last 6 games in all competitions, with their most recent league game being a 3-1 wing against Stuttgart.
The opening goal, on 54 minutes, came from the Polish striker Robert Lewandowski who ended something of a mini-drought. With the club nine points adrift at the foot of the table, defeat to Gladbach would see them equal a Bundesliga record of 13 home defeats in one season.
Bayern, who overcame Benfica to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday night, are chasing a treble, with a German Cup semi-final to come at home to Werder Bremen next Tuesday night. Uniquely, the game took wards Guardiola and power and emotion, wait a massive assault on the gate, “Schalke” on speed limits from the first seconds, we would not have. Franck Ribery danced his way through Schalke’s territory before the Frenchman teed up for Vidal, who poked home from very close range in the 73rd minute.
Kevin Kampl, Julian Brandt and Karim Bellarabi all scored in the second half for Roger Schmidt’s side, with Australia attacker Robbie Kruse an unused substitute for Leverkusen.
Niklas Stark put Berlin ahead, but goals from Fabian Schaer and Mark Uth turned the match around. The Polish center-forward – without a goal in his last three matches – decided the outcome with two simple finishes in the second half, before Arturo Vidal continued his excellent streak with a third.
Darmstadt edged Ingolstadt 2-0 by courtesy of the goals from Konstantin Rausch and Sandro Wagner to win the clash of the newly promoted sides and Augsburg increased Stuttgart’s relegation worries with a 1-0 win.
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In Bremen, Claudio Pizarro returned from injury to convert a penalty and become Bremen’s top all-time scorer with 102, one more than club chairman Marco Bode.
