Bayern bid adieu to Lahm and Xabi
Dortmund seal Champions League spot on last day of season
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice in Borussia Dortmund’s 4-3 win over Werder Bremen yesterday to finish as the Bundesliga’s top-scorer and seal his side’s direct Champions League place on a dramatic final day of the season.
Aubameyang finished with 31 goals, one more than Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, who failed to score in the champions’ 4-1 home win over Freiburg.
There was drama at the bottom of the table as Hamburg guaranteed their survival with an 88th-minute goal to seal a 2-1 win over Wolfsburg.
Two minutes after coming on, Luca Waldschmidt’s header, the day after his 21st birthday, sealed Hamburg’s win which lifted them to 14th and dropped Wolfsburg to 16th.
Fifth straight title
In Munich, Bayern were handed the Bundesliga trophy for the fifth season in a row, extending the record for most wins, and finished with a 15-point margin.
Bayern bid farewell to Philipp Lahm and Xabi Alonso, both World Cup winners, who Bayern Munich Dortmund M’bach Hertha Berlin Cologne Hamburg Ingolstadt Hoffenheim E. Frankfurt 4 4 2 2 2 2 1 0 2 Freiburg Bremen Darmstadt Leverkusen Mainz Wolfsburg Schalke Augsburg RB Leipzig 1 3 2 6 0 1 1 0 2 are retiring after glorious careers. It was the eighth time Lahm won the Bundesliga, his fifth as captain.
Arjen Robben got the party started in Munich by giving the hosts the lead after just four minutes when he slotted home Alonso’s superb diagonal pass.
Bayern doubled their lead when Arturo Vidal’s curling shot beat the Freiburg goalkeeper on 73 minutes. Ex-Bayern striker Nils Petersen came on to claim Freiburg’s consolation on 76 minutes and set a new record of 19 Bundesliga goals off the bench.
Franck Ribery and Joshua Kimmich scored injury-time goals to seal Bayern’s win.
There was drama in Dortmund’s seven-goal thriller as Marco Reus and Aubameyang both converted second-half penalties to seal Dortmund’s comeback win. Defender Marc Bartra made his first appearance since fracturing his right wrist in the April 11 bomb attack on Dortmund’s team bus.