Cologne relegated as Dortmund sets record
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May 6, 2012, Sunday
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FC Cologne tumbled into the German second division yesterday as Hertha Berlin grabbed the lifeline of a relegation playoff while already-crowned champion Borussia Dortmund thumped SC Freiburg 4-0 to set a Bundesliga season points record.
Dortmund, with two goals from both Jakub Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski, finished on 81 points - eight ahead of second-placed Bayern Munich which crushed Cologne 4-1 ahead of its German Cup and Champions League finals later this month.
Third-placed Schalke 04 will join Dortmund and Bayern in Europe's premier competition next season after its 3-2 win at Werder Bremen with the league's top scorer Klaas-Jan Huntelaar striking twice to take his tally to 29 goals.
Hertha's Anis Ben-Hatira struck twice against 10-man Hoffenheim, which had former Liverpool midfielder Ryan Babel sent off, and Raffael added another in stoppage time to spark wild celebrations at the Olympic stadium.
Cologne joins already-relegated Kaiserslautern in the second division.
Elsewhere in the Bundesliga yesterday, it was: FC Nuremberg 1, Bayer Leverkusen 4; FC Augsburg 1, Hamburger SV 0; Mainz 0, Borussia Moenchengladbach 3; Hanover 96 2, Kaiserslautern 1; and VfB Stuttgart 3, VfL Wolfsburg 2.
Dortmund, with two goals from both Jakub Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski, finished on 81 points - eight ahead of second-placed Bayern Munich which crushed Cologne 4-1 ahead of its German Cup and Champions League finals later this month.
Third-placed Schalke 04 will join Dortmund and Bayern in Europe's premier competition next season after its 3-2 win at Werder Bremen with the league's top scorer Klaas-Jan Huntelaar striking twice to take his tally to 29 goals.
Hertha's Anis Ben-Hatira struck twice against 10-man Hoffenheim, which had former Liverpool midfielder Ryan Babel sent off, and Raffael added another in stoppage time to spark wild celebrations at the Olympic stadium.
Cologne joins already-relegated Kaiserslautern in the second division.
Elsewhere in the Bundesliga yesterday, it was: FC Nuremberg 1, Bayer Leverkusen 4; FC Augsburg 1, Hamburger SV 0; Mainz 0, Borussia Moenchengladbach 3; Hanover 96 2, Kaiserslautern 1; and VfB Stuttgart 3, VfL Wolfsburg 2.
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