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Dortmund demolish Wolfsburg 5-1 to top Bundesliga

ByReuters

Updated 20/09/2016 at 20:55 GMT

Borussia Dortmund crushed VfL Wolfsburg 5-1 away on Tuesday with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring twice, to top the Bundesliga ahead of champions Bayern Munich on goal difference.

Dortmund celebrate a 5-1 victory over Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga

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Dortmund, who have scored 11 goals in their last two league games, are level on nine points with Bayern and third-placed Hertha Berlin, who the champions host on Wednesday.
Dortmund set a frantic early pace and scored when Raphael Guerreiro fired in from a tight angle after four minutes.
They made it 2-0 in the 17th with Portugal international Guerreiro, in stellar form, flicking the ball on for Aubameyang, who charged through and curled a shot past keeper Koen Casteels.
Wolfsburg briefly threatened and came close to a goal but Roman Buerki denied them by stopping Mario Gomez's effort and then palming away a powerful Ricardo Rodriguez free kick.
Germany international Gomez missed a golden opportunity five minutes after the restart when he slid in to connect near the goal-line but Buerki somehow got a hand on the ball to clear it.
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Borussia Dortmund's Marcel Schmelzer and Gonzalo Castro celebrate

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Dortmund's Swiss keeper was helpless, however, when Wolves' substitute Daniel Didavi slipped into the area and drilled home a Vierinha cutback three minutes later.
But the comeback was short-lived with the visitors scoring twice in four minutes with Ousmane Dembele netting an easy tap-in after Guerreiro had played in substitute Gonzalo Castro, who then delivered an assist for Aubameyang to get his second goal.
An unmarked Lukasz Piszczek headed in a corner in the 73rd to complete the demolition and push Wolfsburg down one place to ninth on five points.
Eintracht Frankfurt moved on to nine points by winning 2-0 at Ingolstadt, while struggling Hamburg SV slumped to a third loss in four matches with a 1-0 reverse at mid-table Freiburg, leaving coach Bruno Labbadia's job in the balance.
Hamburg are 16th with one points from their four games.
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