Benjamin Huebner late goal sends Hoffenheim into Bundesliga top three

ByReuters

Updated 30/04/2017 at 18:19 GMT

A 90th-minute goal from Benjamin Huebner gave Hoffenheim a last-gasp 1-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday and moved them up into third place with three matches left in the season.

Hoffenheim's defender Benjamin Huebner celebrates (C) the 1:0 after the German first division Bundesliga football match between TSG Hoffenheim and Eintracht Frankfurt on April 30, 2017 in Sinsheim, southwestern Germany.

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The top three teams win an automatic Champions League group-stage spot with the fourth going into the competition's qualifying rounds.

Bayern Munich secured their fifth successive league title on Saturday after crushing VfL Wolfsburg 6-0 to leave them 10 points clear with three games left as RB Leipzig, in second place on 63, drew 0-0 against Ingolstadt.

Nadiem Amiri hit the post for Hoffenheim early in the game and the hosts kept up the pressure throughout but could not score until Huebner rose high to drill in his header from a corner.

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Hoffenheim's head coach Julian Nagelsmann (L) congratulates Hoffenheim's defender Benjamin Huebner after the German first division Bundesliga football match between TSG Hoffenheim and Eintracht Frankfurt on April 30, 2017 in Sinsheim, southwestern Germany

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The win sent Hoffenheim into third, one point ahead of Borussia Dortmund, who drew 0-0 against Cologne on Saturday. Hoffenheim and Dortmund meet next week.

Veteran Halil Altintop scored twice as Augsburg crushed Hamburg SV 4-0 in their relegation derby to climb out of the drop zone.

The 34-year-old former Turkey international scored twice in the first half as Augsburg rose to the big occasion, leaving Hamburg boxed in their own half, unable to create any meaningful scoring chance in their own fight to stay up.

Altintop fired in for the lead in the 28th minute and then tapped in at the far post 14 minutes later as Augsburg also hit the woodwork twice in a dominant performance.

Philipp Max made sure of the three points that lifted the hosts Augsburg to 13th on 35, with a low shot and substitute Raul Bobadilla added a fourth in the 86th minute.

Raul Bobadilla of FC Augsburg celebrates scoring his side's fourth goal during the Bundesliga match between FC Augsburg and Hamburger SV at WWK Arena on April 30, 2017 in Augsburg, Germany.

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Hamburg, the only team to have played in the Bundesliga every season since the top league's creation in 1963, drop down to the relegation playoff spot in 16th on 33, four points ahead of Ingolstadt, who are 17th.

Bayern Munich secured their fifth successive Bundesliga title on Saturday after crushing VfL Wolfsburg 6-0 as RB Leipzig, in second place, drew 0-0 against Ingolstadt to leave them 10 points clear with three games remaining.

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