Marseille extended its poor run of form with a 1-0 loss at home to relegation-threatened Rennes in the French league, a third defeat in four games for the sixth-place team. Bayern can secure the quickest title in 51 years of the Bundesliga by winning at Hertha Berlin on Tuesday.
Second-place Borussia Dortmund won 3-0 at Hannover, but remained 23 points behind Bayern with eight games remaining. It leaves Chelsea four points ahead having played one more match than Liverpool and three more than City, which is six adrift.įar from the title race is Manchester United, which remains seventh despite Rooney scoring twice in a 2-0 victory at West Ham.īayern Munich waited until late to grind out a 2-0 win in Mainz, with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mario Goetze scoring in the last 10 minutes as the team’s unbeaten run stretched to a record 51 games. Manchester City climbed above Arsenal into third place with a 5-0 victory over bottom-place Fulham, while second-place Liverpool won 6-3 at Cardiff.
Arsenal crumbled further against the leaders after Eden Hazard converted the penalty kick, with Oscar scoring twice before Mohamed Salah completed the rout.
