Football: end of the German championship

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Bayern Munich sealed their 30th German title on Saturday with a 4-0 victory at Wolfsburg and received the winner's trophy in the empty stadium. Dortmund, Leipzig and Mönchengladbach will accompany him next season in the Champions League. The Bundesliga is the first major league to end its season, relaunched in mid-May after a two-month hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The Munich Bayer is officially German champion for the 30th time. The Bavarians end the season with 82 points and 100 goals, very close to the legendary 101 goals bar, achieved only once in 1971-72 by the team of Franz Beckenbauer and "Bomber" Gerd Müller. The “Rekordmeister” also equaled its best historic result in return matches, with 49 points taken out of 51 possible. This record dates from 2013, the year of the championship / cup / Champions League treble.

One of the great architects of this success is Robert Lewandowski, who scored on penalty kick Saturday against Friborg his 34th goal of the season. The Pole takes down for the fifth time the symbolic “canon” of top scorer of Bundesliga.

M'Gladbach in the Champions League, Bremen suspended

Mönchengladbach, who was two points ahead of Leverkusen before kick-off, did not shake to confirm his fourth place. The “Foals” won 2-1 at home against Hertha Berlin (Jonas Hofmann 7th, Breel Embolo 78th), and the French striker duo Alassane Pléa and Marcus Thuram will play the very lucrative Champions League next season.

The lights were red for Bremen, penultimate and relegated to kick off. The Werder had to beat Cologne at home and hope for a defeat from Düsseldorf to Berlin against the Hertha, to grab in extremis the barrage place to try to save its place among the elite.

The Nordics, boosted, did the job by atomizing Cologne 6-1, including a double from the Japanese International Yuya Osako. And the miracle happened in Berlin, where the Union, which had nothing left to gain, defeated Düsseldorf 3-0.

The Werder will play its head on a round trip match (Thursday and Monday) against the third of the D2, which could be Heidenheim or ... Hamburg, the other big club in the north, which has been patient in the second division for two seasons, after also being a great German in the twentieth century.

Werner's farewell gift

Recruited by Chelsea, international striker Timo Werner played his last match in the Leipzig jersey and scored twice in the victory at Augsburg (2-1).

To the great regret of his coach Julian Nagelsmann, Werner will not play in August the final phase of the Champions League in Portugal, for which Leipzig is already qualified. With 94 goals for Leipzig in four seasons, the 24-year-old ended his stay in Saxony by breaking the goal record for a club player. This season, he has shaken the nets 28 times, and finishes second in the championship behind Lewandowski.

Paderborn and Düsseldorf descend to the second division.

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