Bayern Munich eased past Mainz 3-0 but had to put title celebrations on ice after Bayer Leverkusen matched their win to stay eight points behind with three matches left.
The Bavarian club, top on 75 points ahead of Leverkusen in second with 67, can now secure a 34th German league title with a win at RB Leipzig next week. But Harry Kane will miss next week’s game after picking up his fifth booking and a suspension.
Leroy Sané fired in after good early work from Serge Gnabry to give Bayern a 28th-minute lead. Bayern doubled it with Michael Olise’s solo effort and superb finish from a tight angle five minutes before the break. Sané twice hit the woodwork in the second half before Eric Dier headed home their third goal in the 84th.
Thomas Müller came on late in the second half to make his 500th league appearance for the club. The 35-year-old, who is leaving at the end of the season after 25 years with Bayern, is only the fourth player to reach that mark in the Bundesliga, featuring for just one club.
“It’s not ideal but we won,” said Bayern’s coach, Vincent Kompany, of Kane’s yellow card. “But it is not like a final. We will play 34 games this season and I think [injured] guys like Jamal [Musiala], Alphonso [Davies], Dayot Upamecano and [Hiroki[ Ito also have to celebrate the title. Every title you have to celebrate it like it’s your first so I don’t think it will make much of a difference for Harry It doesn’t take away a single percent of his contribution this season.”
With 24 league goals this term, the 31-year-old England captain looks set to become the first player to be crowned the league’s top scorer in each of his first two Bundesliga seasons. “Crazy, crazy decision,” said Kane of his booking. “It’s kind of my story that I’ll miss the Leipzig game. But no worries, I’ll celebrate more than anyone else.”
Bayer Leverkusen beat Augsburg 2-0. Patrik Schick struck in the 13th minute with Leverkusen’s first real chance, drilling in from the edge of the box for his 19th league goal of the season.
Leverkusen put the ball in the net once more a little later but Nathan Tella’s header at the far post was ruled offside. They made amends in first half stoppage time when Emiliano Buendía curled a shot past Finna Dahmen to make it 2-0 and ensure three points for the hosts.
Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equaliser but still managed to score a last-gasp winner through Waldemar Anton for a 3-2 win at Hoffenheim that boosted their chances of making next season’s Champions League with three league games left.
Anton slotted into an empty goal with seconds left to play for the winner, lifting Dortmund to sixth place on 48 points with their fourth win in the last five league games. Dortmund remain three points off fourth place – the last spot to offer automatic Champions League qualification – after Freiburg won 1-0 at Wolfsburg.
Serhou Guirassy and Julian Brandt scored Dortmund’s first two goals, the former also having a penalty saved at 1-0. Adam Hlozek scored Hoffenheim’s first equaliser and then Pavel Kaderabek equalised in stoppage time. But Dortmund kept up the pressure before carving out the winner from Germany international Anton.
RB Leipzig lost 4-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt in the late game and are only one point better off than Dortmund. The result cemented Frankfurt’s hold on third place.
In France, the Egyptian defender Mohamed Abdelmonem suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his right knee during Nice’s 3-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain on Friday. “His injury will remain the dark cloud hanging over Nice’s victory in Paris over PSG. It was in the 63rd minute of the match at the Parc des Princes when Mohamed Abdelmonem collapsed in Nice’s penalty area,” Nice said in statement.
“The first images led us to fear that it was a serious injury. The various medical examinations carried out immediately after the match confirmed … Mohamed has suffered a cruciate ligament rupture. OGC Nice dedicates the three points to him and will do everything possible to support him during his months of recovery so that he can return to the pitch even stronger.”
The victory lifted Nice to fourth in the standings with 54 points from 31 games and ended the champions’ chances of an unbeaten Ligue 1 season.
This story will be updated later on Saturday