German champions Borussia Dortmund closed in on another record yesterday as their 5-2 win over relegated Kaiserslautern took their unbeaten run to 27 league games.

Having broken the Bundesliga record for the longest unbeaten run in a season, Dortmund are now just one behind Bayern Munich’s record of 79 points collected in a single Bundesliga season.

Having been confirmed league champions for the second season last weekend, Dortmund picked up their fifth straight win with Paraguay striker Lucas Barrios hitting a hat-trick.

Dortmund got off to an inauspicious start at Kaiserslautern as Brazilian defender Felipe Santana scored an own goal after only 16 minutes to put the hosts ahead.

But the champions roared back just two minutes later as Barrios scored two goals in eight minutes to put the guests into a 2-1 lead.

Germany’s teenage star Mario Goetze netted his first league goal for five months, following a groin problem, on 33 minutes to make it 3-1 at the break.

Although Kaiserslautern pulled another goal back just after the break, it was one-way traffic from then on as Barrios completed his hat-trick on 55 minutes before Croatia midfielder Ivan Perisic scored Dortmund’s fifth on 78.

Fresh from their penalty shoot-out victory heroics at Real Madrid on Wednesday to reach the Champions League final against Chelsea, Bayern enjoyed a 2-0 win at home to Stuttgart.

Mario Gomez and Thomas Mueller scored for the Bavarians at Munich’s Allianz Arena, their last game at home before the Champions League final.

Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored twice in Schalke’s 4-0 win over Hertha Berlin to make him the league’s top scorer with 27 goals in 32 games.

The win means Schalke will finish third and claim the league’s final direct qualification place for the Champions League.

Hertha remain second from bottom and are battling with Cologne, who lost 4-1 at Freiburg, for 16th place which means an end-of-season play-off to stay in Germany’s top flight against the team which finishes third in the second league.

Gladbach’s goalless draw at Augsburg confirms their fourth-placed finish which means they have to win a play-off to qualify for next season’s Champions League.

Bayer Leverkusen’s ex-Germany striker Stefan Kiessling hit the winner in their 1-0 win over Hanover 96.

Bayer Leverkusen will finish fifth in the league that gives them an Europa League place for next season.

Stuttgart will also play in the Europa League.

Wolfsburg, who enjoyed a 3-1 win over Werder Bremen with ex-Germany striker Patrick Helmes scoring twice, are vying with Hanover for seventh spot and the final chance to claim a European place.

Results, standings

Kaiserslautern 2 - B. Dortmund 5
B. Leverkusen 1 - Hanover 0
B. Munich 2 - Stuttgart 0
B. M’gladbach 0 - Augsburg 0
Hamburg 0 - Mainz 0
Hoffenheim 2 - Nuremberg 3
Freiburg 4 - Cologne 1
Schalke 4 - H. Berlin 0
Wolfsburg 3 - W. Bremen 1


 P W D L F A Pts
B. Dortmund 33 24 6 3 76 25 78
B. Munich 33 22 4 7 73 21 70
Schalke 33 19 4 10 71 42 61
B. M’gladbach 33 16 9 8 46 24 57
B. Leverkusen 33 14 9 10 48 43 51
Stuttgart 33 14 8 11 60 44 50
Hanover 33 11 12 10 39 44 45
Wolfsburg 33 13 5 15 45 57 44
W. Bremen 33 11 9 13 47 55 42
Nuremberg 33 12 6 15 37 45 42
Hoffenheim 33 10 11 12 40 44 41
Freiburg 33 10 10 13 45 57 40
Mainz 33 9 12 12 47 48 39
Hamburg 33 8 12 13 35 56 36
Augsburg 33 7 14 12 35 49 35
Cologne 33 8 6 19 38 71 30
H. Berlin 33 6 10 17 35 63 28
Kaiserslautern 33 4 11 18 23 52 23

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