Borussia Dortmund 1-0 FC Cologne
Borussia Dortmund added three more points to their all but insurmountable lead at the top of the Bundesliga with victory over Cologne on Friday night.
Robert Lewandowski scored the only goal of a game Dortmund dominated a minute before the break to take his side 15 points clear of Bayer Leverkusen.
That gap could well be back to 12 on Saturday evening, but with only nine games of the season left the title appears destined for the Westfalenstadion.
The hosts were on the front foot from the off, Neven Subotic testing Michael Rensing with a 10th-minute free-kick before Christian Eichner cleared Lucas Barrios’ shot off the line.
Rensing kept his side in the contest again just before the half-hour mark, brilliantly saving Felipe Santana’s header from a Nuri Sahin corner.
But the former Bayern Munich keeper was beaten in the 44th minute as Lewandowski took a pass from Sahin and sent a left-footed shot into the bottom corner from 12 yards.
Cologne had their first sight of goal in the 56th minute as Milivoje Novakovic fired wide of the post.
That was as close as they came, however, with Dortmund threatening to extend their lead in the closing stages.
Paraguay striker Barrios crashed a close-range shot off the bar in the 79th minute and, six minutes later, Sahin repeated the trick, this time with an excellent strike from distance.
But those near misses did not prove costly as Jurgen Klopp’s side took another step towards the league title.
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