Bundesliga round-up: Dortmund close gap on Bayern in bizarre fashion

Borussia Dortmund kept up some pressure on Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga with a 1-0 win at Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday in bizarre circumstances.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 21st goal of the season to earn Thomas Tuchel's men all three points and help them reduce the arrears on Bayern to eight points once again.

Perhaps more importantly, though, they are now 16 points clear of their hosts, who are in the Champions League play-off qualifying berth.

However, what followed after Aubameyang's goal was ridiculous in the extreme. 

Referee Felix Zwayer walked off and suspended the game after Dortmund scored, with the match delayed for around eight minutes and only started again after Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt left his technical area.

Schmidt claimed Dortmund's goal should not have stood after a free-kick was not taken from the right place.

The German referee asked Leverkusen's acting captain Stefan Kiessling, who had conceded the foul that led to the goal, to tell his coach to leave the dug-out.

When nothing happened, Zwayer led the teams off the pitch and into the dressing rooms.

It was the first time a Bundesliga match had been suspended in such circumstances, with Schmidt going on to watch the remainder of the game from his team's dressing room.

Sunday's other fixtures saw Stuttgart's five-game winning run come to an end with a 1-1 draw at Schalke.

Younes Belhanda and Martin Harnik scored the goals at the Arena AufSchalke as the Royal Blues missed an opportunity to move above Leverkusen into third, while Stuttgart extended their unbeaten run to eight.

That is the same number of games that Hannover have now lost in succession after they were beaten 1-0 at home by Augsburg.

The pressure is mounting on their coach Thomas Schaaf, who has lost five of those matches since taking over in the winter break, while Augsburg moved four points clear of the bottom three thanks to Ja-Cheol Koo's goal.