Bayern Munich defeat Eintracht Frankfurt; Lewandowski stars

Berlin

Robert Lewandowski scored twice as injury-hit Bayern Munich romped to a 3-0 league win over Eintracht Frankfurt yesterday to warm-up for their Champions League quarter-final at Porto.

With second-placed Wolfsburg at Hamburg yesterday night, league leaders Bayern took the chance to go thirteen points clear, despite having only 14 fit players according to coach Pep Guardiola.

Lewandowski, the Bundesliga’s top-scorer last season, added to his tally to leave him with 16 goals for the season and third in the current rankings.

Frankfurt were missing the league’s top scorer with Alexander Meier, who has 19 goals in 26 matches, out with a knee injury.

“I’m proud of the lads. We played well in Leverkusen and three days later played one of the best attacking sides in the league,” said Guardiola. “We dominated the game and played well, which pleased me.”

Centre-back Medhi Benatia, who has a groin injury, joined flu-victim Bastian Schweinsteiger, plus wingers Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben and left-back David Alaba as just some of the stars on Bayern’s casualty list.

Guardiola made Bundesliga history by naming four Spain internationals in his starting line-up in Pepe Reina, Xabi Alonso, Thiago Alcantara and Juan Bernat.

Gladbach dismantle Dortmund

Third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach picked up their fourth straight league win with an impressive 3-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund.

Tenth-placed Dortmund went behind after just 29 seconds as Patrick Herrmann’s shot was blocked by Borussia’s Roman Weidenfeller, but Sweden left-back Oscar Wendt slammed home the parry.

Brazilian forward Raffel addded their second on 32 minutes after a strong run by Herrmann before Norway’s Havard Nordveit fired home when left unmarked at the far post with 67 minutes gone before Ilkay Gundogan pulled a late goal back for Dortmund.

Bayer Leverkusen enjoyed a 3-2 win over Mainz as they consider terminating the contract of Bosnia international Emir Spahic, who is being investigated by police for allegedly assaulting a club steward.

South Korea striker Son Heung-Min opened the scoring with 15 minutes gone and Stefan Kiessling added a second early in the second-half.