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Borussia Dortmund crush Bayern Munich 3-1 in spectacular march to title

Former Bayern player Mats Hummels sealed Dortmund's first win in Munich since 1991 with a powerful header on the hour after first half strikes from Lucas Barrios and Nuri Sahin.

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Borussia Dortmund crushed champions Bayern Munich 3-1 away on Saturday to march 13 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and douse any simmering title hopes their rivals may have held.   

Former Bayern player Mats Hummels sealed Dortmund's first win in Munich since 1991 with a powerful header on the hour after first half strikes from Lucas Barrios and Nuri Sahin.   

The hosts, who dropped to fourth and are 16 adrift of Dortmund, had briefly levelled through Luiz Gustavo but were largely toothless in the second half.  

Wingers Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben were completely shut out by a concrete Dortmund defence that has let in only 14 goals in 24 games.  

Dortmund are on 58 points with second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, on 45, playing Werder Bremen on Sunday.   

A match seen as the highlight of the season lived up to its billing in the first half with Kevin Grosskreutz pouncing on a Bastian Schweinsteiger mistake and perfectly timing a pass for Paraguay international Barrios to slot home after nine minutes.   

The two sides traded blows in a fluid, attacking first half and Luiz Gustavo brought Bayern level, volleying in a Ribery corner after 16 minutes with 22-year-old Australian keeper Mitchell Langerak beaten on his Bundesliga debut.  

Sahin, however, responded two minutes later with a curled left-footed shot and Hummels, who has blossomed into a Germany international after failing to establish himself at Bayern, headed in a Mario Goetze corner on the hour.

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