Karim Adeyemi scored a brace to lead Dortmund to a 6-0 win over Wolfsburg on Sunday to put pressure on Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga title race, Sportivationng.com reports.Â
The Ruhr valley club fired three goals past the Wolves in the first half to take the wind out of their sails and added three more after the break in a one-sided game which Wolfsburg littered with defensive errors.
Dortmund are now on 64 points, one behind Bayern, 2-1 winners against Werder Bremen on Saturday.
Dortmund host Borussia Moenchengladbach next Saturday while Bayern take on Schalke 04.
In front of a sold-out crowd of more than 81,000, the hosts went in front after 14 minutes with Adeyemi rising high to head in his fifth goal of the season.
The Wolves had only one chance in the first half and they should have levelled when Patrick Wimmer failed to beat keeper Gregor Kobel from close range in the 20th and Jonas Wind missed the target with his rebound.
Instead it was Dortmund who struck again in the 28th when Adeyemi delivered a pin-point assist for Sebastien Haller to tap in.
Donyell Malen did the same from a Julian Brandt assist in the 37th and after the break the hosts picked up where they had left off with Bellingham seeing his shot initially blocked by keeper Koen Casteels before the ball bounced off the bar and rolled in.
Wolfsburg’s disastrous defending continued, with another wrong pass allowing Adeyemi to slip in and make it 5-0 in the 59th.
The Germany international could have earned his first Bundesliga hat-trick but he thundered a 65th-minute penalty over the bar.
Bellingham put an end to Wolfsburg’s ordeal in the 86th.
