Lewandowski joins Bundesliga’s 100-goal club

BERLIN: Robert Lewandowski grabbed a hat-trick as Bayern Munich romped to a 6-0 victory over crisis-stricken Hamburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

His latest exploits in front of goal mean he has now scored 100 Bundesliga goals for Bayern and is the club’s all-time leading foreign goal-scorer with 142 from 182 games in all competitions.

He overtakes the Brazilian Giovane Elber, who played for the club from 1997 to 2003.

The victory keeps Bayern on course to wrap up another Bundesliga title — their sixth in a row — before the end of March, and heaps misery on Hamburg, who are now without a win in 13 games.

“We played very well today. The performance and result were very important for us,” said Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes, whose side go to Besiktas for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday, leading 5-0 from the first leg.

With eight games left, Bayern are a huge 20 points clear of second-placed Schalke, who won 1-0 at Mainz on Friday.

“It doesn’t matter if we are 10, 15 or 20 points ahead, we need to keep going in the Bundesliga,” said Arjen Robben. “We can’t just focus on the Champions League.”

Hamburg remain seven points adrift of safety as they seek to avoid a first relegation in their history.

“The game was over after 18 minutes,” Hamburg coach Bernd Hollerbach told Sky.

“There is no shame in losing in Munich, but I am not happy with the way we lost.”

Bayer Leverkusen battled to a 2-0 victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Defeat sees Gladbach slip behind Augsburg in the table, after Michael Gregoritsch fired them to a 3-1 away win over Hanover.

Freiburg held Hertha Berlin to a 0-0 draw, while Bruno Labbadia is still without a win as Wolfsburg coach after watching his side lose 3-0 to Hoffenheim.