Bundes Liga

Dortmund roar

Champions Borussia Dortmund crushed Cologne 5-0 with two goals from in-form striker Robert Lewandowski on Saturday to move into second place in the Bundesliga, three points off leaders Bayern Munich.
Dortmund bounced back in style from their 3-1 Champions League defeat to Olympiakos with a dazzling performance reminiscent of their championship-winning form of last season.
Poland international Lewandowski, who has seven goals in 10 games, scored either side of halftime after goals from Shinji Kagawa and Marcel Schmelzer had given the hosts an early cushion.
Captain Sebastian Kehl powered in a header on 66 minutes to complete the rout.
"We showed how important goals are in a game," Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp told reporters. "Our outstanding pressing game and passing game made us better than our opponents. It was very difficult to defend against what we offered today."
Borussia Moenchengladbach dropped to fifth on 17 points after Hoffenheim forward Vedad Ibisevic, starting for the first time after a months-long injury break, struck on 56 minutes to give the hosts a 1-0 win.
It was one-way traffic in Dortmund from the start, with Japan international Kagawa scoring from close range after good work from Kevin Grosskreutz down the left on seven minutes.
Germany international Schmelzer doubled the lead with the first Bundesliga goal of his career, a curled shot from 14 metres after Cologne defenders allowed Mario Goetze too much space in the box. Lewandowski added another in the 44th.
With Cologne, who had won three of their last four games, still dazed, Dortmund's Neven Subotic rattled the crossbar on the stroke of halftime.
The hosts struck twice more in the second half, with the disappointing visitors offering their first and only shot on goal in the 86th minute.

RESULTS
Hertha Berlin 0 Mainz 05 0
Nuremberg 2 (Simons 9, Wollscheid 70) VfB Stuttgart 2 (Kuzmanovic 61-pen, Rodriguez 84)
Borussia Dortmund 5 (Kagawa 7, Schmelzer 25, Lewandowski 44, 50, Kehl 66) FC Cologne 0
Hoffenheim 1 (Ibisevic 56) Borussia M'gladbach 0
Kaiserslautern 1 (Kuzmanovic 61) Freiburg 0
Hamburg 1 (Petric 56) VfL Wolfsburg 1 (Mandzukic 2)

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