Leverkusen (Germany) (AFP)

The title road turns into a highway! Bayern Munich outperformed Leverkusen on Saturday to tentatively increase their lead to 10 points over Dortmund, which hosts Hertha Berlin at 6.30 p.m.

RB Leipzig, for its part, made a new misstep, conceding a home draw to the red lantern Paderborn (1-1), after leading until the 2nd minute of added time. Red Bull players take advantage of the setbacks of their direct competitors to maintain their third place.

In Munich, however, the atmosphere is festive. Even if the city hall of Munich has already prohibited the traditional presentation of the trophy to the crowd from the balcony of the City Hall, because of the measures to combat the coronavirus, the "Rekordmeister" goes straight to its eighth consecutive title, the 30th in total, which could take place next weekend.

After the opening scoring for Leverkusen by Lucas Alario (9th), the Bavarians replied by Kingsley Coman (1-1, 27th), Leon Goretzka (2-1, 42nd), Serge Gnabry (3-1, 45th) and Robert Lewandowski (4-1, 66th).

"We came back to the mind," said Bayern captain and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, "we played against a good team but we are still playing to win and we showed it. We were the best team on the field" .

- "Red card to racism" -

With 70 points, the Bavarians can see calmly coming the next shock against Mönchengladbach next Saturday, where he will however be deprived of his two spearheads in attack Thomas Müller and Robert Lewandowski, suspended.

Dortmund follows with 60 pts (before his match at 6.30 p.m.), and Leipzig (59 pts) completes the podium.

Before the match, the Bayern players warmed up with a t-shirt bearing the inscription "Red card to racism - BlackLivesMatter". Central back Jérôme Boateng, born to a Ghanaian father, this week called on his white colleagues to more openly show their solidarity and their rejection of racism, following global protests after the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by the police in the United States.

"All the white athletes who are not currently speaking are not racists, obviously," he said, "but of course it is desirable that they also use their notoriety for this cause."

Bayern then played with an armband that reads "Black Lives Matter".

Without his nugget Kai Havertz, Leverkusen attacked the game without complex, and opened the scoring very quickly, following a mistake by David Alaba, who wanted to put Lucas Alario in offside but advanced a fraction of a second too late.

The Argentine scored, and was first signaled effectively offside by the linesman, before the video assistant allowed the goal (1-0, 9th).

- Thirty goals for Lewandowski -

But the proud Bayern do not like to be led! The last who had the courage to open the scoring against the Bavarians were the players of the Bremen Werder on December 14, 2019. They had been punished 6-1!

Leverkusen held up (a little) better, mainly because Coman or Gnabry in particular did not score goal balls in the second period. But the result is the same: the players from the Rhine do not score any points, and remain in fifth position (56 pts), excluded for the moment from the leading quartet, qualified for the next Champions League.

Also with 56 pts but a better goal difference, Mönchengladbach missed a golden opportunity on Friday to break away, conceding an unexpected 1-0 defeat at Freiburg.

In the scorer ranking, the Pole from Bayern Lewandowski scored his 30th goal this season in the league, equaling his personal best. He has four games left to beat him, but it will probably be impossible to reach the 40 goal mark, the historic record for "Bomber" Gerd Müller, established in 1971-72.

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