Borussia Dortmund will play football from the Champions League next season after a 3-0 home victory against a 10 men’s Holstein Kiel finished an incredible race at the end of the season. Sitting in 11th place barely seven weeks ago, Dortmund collected 22 of the 24 possible points in their last eight championship games, climbing to the fourth, passed Freiburg who lost 3-1 at home against Eintracht Francfurt. Dortmund, who was not in the top four since the end of the first day in September, took an excellent start against their already relegated opponents when Serhou Guirassy converted a third minute penalty.
Knowing that they needed a big victory to guarantee a finish among the first four, Dortmund’s hopes seemed even more pink six minutes later, when Carl Johansson de Kiel saw Red for a last man’s fault.
Marcel Sabitzer added a second with a downside diverted two minutes after half-time and Felix Nmecha did three when he scored at close range with 73 minutes.
Dortmund coach Niko Kovac, who took over in January, said his team, finalists of the Champions League a year ago, should not be carried away while reaching the club’s “minimum goal” of the club “
“We are happy, I am happy and what we have shown in recent weeks has been sensational, but we should not celebrate,” Kovac told journalists.
Dortmnd Emre Can captain was more optimistic, saying “we had big evenings in the Champions League, we want to experience again.”
Dortmund will be joined in the Champions League by Frankfurt, who came from a goal to win in Freiburg, qualifying for the first European competition thanks to the place of the League for the first time.
Freiburg, who started weekends in fourth position and was to win to guarantee first place in the Champions League, took the lead after 27 minutes when Ritsu Doan stole.
Ansgar Knauff de Francfurt did a service to his former club Dortmund when he accumulated things just before half-time.
Frankfurt added two goals in three minutes in the second half thanks to Rasmus Kristen and Ellyes Skhiri to seize the match and their fate of the Champions League.
Freiburg fell in fifth row and will play in the Europa League next season; They will be joined in the competition by the winner of the final of the German Cup between Stuttgart and Arminia Bielefeld in the third flight.
Elsewhere, the Bayern Munich champions ended the season in style, the veteran who came out of the Thomas Mueller scholarships in a 4-0 victory in Hoffenheim.
Harry Kane scored his 26th goal from the League of the Year, winning the top scorer Gong for the second consecutive season, with Michael Olise, Joshua Kimmich and Serge Gnabry on the match sheet.
Kane said that winning the Bundesliga Top-Scoring trophy was “more special”, now he tasted the team’s success, adding “I won some golden boots in my career, but doing it when we win the championship is more significant”.
Bayer Leverkusen was held in a 2-2 draw in Massez in the last match of Xabi Alonso in the canoe.
The undefeated champions of last season have lagged behind with 35 minutes played when Paul Nebel scored, but Patrick Schick scored twice in five minutes after half-time to take the lead, while bringing his count of the season to 21 goals.
Jonathan Burkardt of Massez went back on site. Steffan Bell’s stop goal was detected for handball, but Mainz remained sixth and sealed a investment in the Europa conference league.
Despite the missing victory, Leverkusen set a Bundesliga record by making 34 unlocked games far from his home.
“Of course I will miss it, I learned a lot and I take a lot of these three years for the future,” Alonso told journalists. The coach would be ready to take over at Real Madrid in summer.
The bad season of RB Leipzig continued, losing 3-2 at home against Stuttgart to completely miss European football for the first time since their first promotion in 2016.
Heidenheim will play in the Play-off of relegation after a 4-1 home defeat against Werder Bremen.
Elsewhere, Union Berlin came from a goal to win 2-1 in Augsburg, Andrej Ilic marking a splint.
Bochum, who was relegated last week, said goodbye to the high flight with a 2-0 victory in St Pauli, while Wolfsburg won 1-0 at Borussia Moenchengladbach.
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