Dortmund trounce Frankfurt, stay close to Bayern

Borussia Dortmund returned to within five points of Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga with a 4-1 win over 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt at the Westfalenstadion.

Alexander Meier gave the guests the lead, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan netted a deserved equalizer for Dortmund.

Slobodan Medojevic was sent off just before half-time after he gave away a penalty, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed from the spot.

The Gabon forward made amends to put Dortmund in front in the 57th minute and Mats Hummels added the third before Adrian Ramos completed the scoring late on.

Lukas Hradecky denied Ilkay Gundogan with the first opening of the game before Meier silenced the Westfalenstadion by putting the visitors in front.

Haris Seferovic took the ball down from his goalkeeper's long punt forward and he set up Meier, whose low drive from 25 yards found the bottom left-hand corner.

Aubameyang had the ball in the back of the net at the other end within a minute, but the goal was ruled out for offside.

It was not long before Dortmund had an actual goal to celebrate with Mkhitaryan knocking the ball in from close range from Aubameyang's pass.

Dortmund had the chance to take the lead just before half-time when Medojevic fouled Gonzalo Castro inside the penalty area. A spot-kick was awarded while the Frankfurt defender was shown his second yellow card, but Aubameyang sent the penalty wide of the goal.

Hradecky did his best in trying to keep the Westphalians at bay, but his and Frankfurt's resistance was broken in the 57th minute when Aubameyang converted Shinji Kagawa's cross at the far post.

Hummels added a third four minutes later to give Dortmund a cushion, but they still wanted more.

Kagawa lifted a shot onto the roof of the net as their pressure continued, with Ramos sent on to give further weight to their attack.

He added a fourth too with a fine volley from Lukasz Piszczek's cross to complete a convincing win for Dortmund in the 86th minute.