Soccer-Bayern Munich win 10th straight league title after beating Dortmund (updated)

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23/04/2022 19:44

* Thomas Mueller earns record 11th league title
    * Bayern are 12 points clear with three games left
    * Lewandowski, Gnabry and Musiala on target for Bayern

 (Updates with details)
    MUNICH, Germany, April 23 (Reuters) - Bayern Munich beat
Borussia Dortmund 3-1 on Saturday to secure their 10th straight
Bundesliga title with three games left to play in the season.
    First-half goals from Serge Gnabry and Robert Lewandowski
put the hosts 2-0 up before Emre Can cut the deficit with a
52nd-minute penalty. Jamal Musiala got Bayern's third goal seven
minutes from the end 
    Bayern, 12 points clear of second-placed Dortmund, have now
won 31 Bundesliga titles since the introduction of the top
division in 1963, and 32 German league crowns in all.
    Bayern were desperate to seal the title -- their only
silverware of the season -- in the league's big game in front of
a 75,000-strong home crowd to make up for their Champions League
quarter-final shock exit to Villarreal earlier this month.
    They took their first chance through Gnabry, who controlled
the ball at the edge of the box with one touch and released a
fierce volley past keeper Marwin Hitz, left frozen on the spot.
    Gnabry put the ball in the net again on the half-hour mark
but his effort was ruled offside. League top scorer Lewandowski
did better in the 34th when Gnabry gained possession and Thomas
Mueller, who became the first player to win 11 Bundesliga
titles, fed the Pole who slotted in through the legs of Hitz 
for his 33rd league goal. 
    Lewandowski, whose future at the club is in doubt with a
contract extension past his current 2023 deal still to be
finalised, is on track to win Bundesliga top scorer for a
seventh time and the fifth straight time. 
    Dortmund were awarded a penalty at the start of the second
half when Marco Reus was felled by Joshua Kimmich and Can
converted it. The visitors kept up the pressure but failed to
score again despite efforts from Reus and Erling Haaland.
    Instead it was Bayern who scored through substitute Musiala
to make sure of the title as the champagne came out in the box
seats for the Bayern club bosses and coach Julian Nagelsmann
celebrated his first league crown.
    Dortmund are on 63 points with third-placed Bayer Leverkusen
on 55. 

 (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann;
Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Clare Fallon)
 ((karolos.grohmann@thomsonreuters.com; +491743343192;))