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Dortmund Maintain Their Hopes Of Top-Four Finish

 

Third-placed Borussia Dortmund maintained their hopes of a top-four finish with an accomplished 4-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, while Hamburger SV slipped into full crisis mode by losing 4-2 at bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig.

Dortmund was playing Frankfurt for the second time in a week after its 1-0 German Cup quarterfinal win over the same opponent on Tuesday.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan dispossessed Frankfurt defender Sebastian Jung and then waited before playing the perfect pass through four Frankfurt defenders for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to open the scoring in the 10th.

Aubameyang got his second goal 11 minutes later after a corner, and Robert Lewandowski converted a penalty to make it 3-0 two minutes after the break. It was the Polish striker’s first goal against Frankfurt and his 14th of the season.

Milos Jojic scored just seconds after coming on for his Bundesliga debut to complete the scoring in the 68th.