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Bundesliga round-up: Schalke make Bayern Munich wait for title

Image: Robert Lewandowski has 24 goals from 26 league games in the Bundesliga this season

Schalke prevented Bayern Munich from sealing the Bundesliga title despite the league leaders thrashing Borussia Dortmund 6-0.

Had second-placed Schalke dropped points, Bayern knew they would have been crowned champions with a victory over Dortmund later in the evening.

Yet that possibility was taken off the table thanks to their 2-0 win over Freiburg, with goals from Daniel Caligiuri and Guido Burgstaller.

Bayern would then go on to dismantle Dortmund at the Allianz Arena, where a Robert Lewandowski hat-trick inspired the hosts to victory, and James Rodriguez, Thomas Muller and Franck Ribery also got on the scoresheet.

Hamburg were denied a first league victory since November as the division's bottom side drew 1-1 at Stuttgart.

Hamburg's record of having never been relegated from the Bundesliga looks under serious threat this year, though they led at Stuttgart through former Tottenham midfielder Lewis Holtby.

Daniel Ginczek scored his fifth goal of the season for Stuttgart
Image: Daniel Ginczek's goal made Hamburg's potential relegation edge ever-closer

However, a fifth league win of the season eluded them as Daniel Ginczek equalised on the stroke of half-time.

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RB Leipzig moved into the top four with a 3-2 victory over at Hannover, with Emil Forsberg, Willi Orban and Yussuf Poulsen were all on target in the win.

Leipzig moved ahead of both Bayer Leverkusen, who could only draw 0-0 at home with Augsburg, and Eintracht Frankfurt, who travel to Werder Bremen on Sunday.

Serge Gnabry and Mark Uth both scored braces as Hoffenheim thrashed Cologne 6-0.

In the late game on Saturday, Hertha Berlin played out a goalless draw with Wolfsburg at the Olympic Stadium.

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