Midfielder brace keeps team\u2019s Bundesliga title hopes alive with 6-0 thrashing of Wolfsburg
\n BERLIN
\nTwo goals from England\u2019s Jude Bellingham helped Borussia Dortmund to a spectacular 6-0 win over Wolfsburg on Sunday, keeping the Bundesliga title race on a knife edge with three games to go.
\nBellingham struck twice in the second half as Dortmund ran Wolfsburg ragged in a statement victory to keep alive their hopes of a first title in 11 years.
\nThe win keeps Edin Terzic\u2019s team within a point of league leaders Bayern Munich, who battled to a narrow 2-1 win over Werder Bremen on Saturday.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not over yet. We need to win all our games and see what happens, but the belief is definitely still there,\u201d said Dortmund midfielder Emre Can, who also heaped praise on Bellingham and fellow goalscorer Karim Adeyemi.
\n\u201cIt makes it easier for me when they play like that. They both have the quality to score goals and they showed that today,\u201d he said.
\nEngland international Bellingham, who has been linked with a move to Real Madrid in recent days, now has 13 goals in all competitions this season. Dortmund took the lead after just 14 minutes as both sides went for the throat in the opening exchanges.
\nAdeyemi was quicker than his marker to pick up Julian Ryerson\u2019s deflected cross and headed the ball expertly under the bar for the opener.
\nWolfsburg should have equalised when Patrick Wimmer found himself through on goal, but the German striker fired the ball straight at Dortmund keeper Gregor Kobel.
\nAt the other end, Donyell Malen wasted a brilliant opportunity on the counter-attack when he decided to square the ball instead of shoot in a one-on-one with Wolfsburg keeper Koen Casteels.
\nUnfazed, Dortmund doubled the lead through a Sebastien Haller tap-in just before the half-hour mark.
\nAfter Mats Hummels won the ball back brilliantly in midfield, Adeyemi found space to charge on the left wing and picked out Haller in front of goal with a fizzing low cross.
\nWith Dortmund\u2019s attacks now flooding through the leaky Wolfsburg defence, Malen quickly added a third.
\nThe home side continued to tear through their guests after the break, with Bellingham scoring his goal after a rampaging run from inside his own half.
\nAdeyemi made it 5-0 a few minutes later, tapping the ball into the empty net after he and Haller had teamed up to win back possession in the Wolfsburg box.
\nThe Germany striker could have had a hat-trick when Bellingham was brought down in the box, but blasted his penalty high over the bar.
\nBellingham completed the rout a few minutes from time, slotting the ball in from close range after a flick on from Julian Brandt.
\nThe England midfielder\u2019s future remains uncertain, but Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl insisted before the game that he was yet to receive any official offer for a transfer.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that the rumours are swirling, we\u2019ve been in this situation before. But there\u2019s nothing new to announce and there has been no offer,\u201d he told DAZN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Midfielder brace keeps team\u2019s Bundesliga title hopes alive with 6-0 thrashing of Wolfsburg BERLIN Two goals from England\u2019s Jude Bellingham helped Borussia Dortmund to a spectacular 6-0 win over Wolfsburg on Sunday, keeping the Bundesliga title race on a knife edge with three games to go. Bellingham struck twice in the second half as Dortmund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n