Dortmund win 3-0 at Union, cut Bayern lead

Borussia Dortmund have gone some way to answering mounting criticism of their performances with a Marco Reus-inspired 3-0 win at Union Berlin that cut Bayern Munich's Bundesliga lead to six points.

The victory, which featured a double from Reus, was an impressive riposte after Dortmund's 5-2 loss at home to Bayer Leverkusen the previous Sunday, which had allowed Bayern to pull away.

"Now, it's important that we also enjoy the win," Reus said.

"That we were able to let out all the frustration we built up in the last game and during the week. We had a very, very restless week."

Bayern's surprise 4-2 loss at promoted Bochum on Saturday gave Dortmund added incentive to claim their first league win at Union at the third attempt.

Union had been hoping to reclaim fourth place and make up for their own loss to relegation-threatened Augsburg in the previous game.

But Urs Fischer's team lacked a cutting edge and were caught out twice in the first half by the clinical Reus.

Captain Reus opened the scoring in the 18th minute when Mahmoud Dahoud played him in to shoot low through Andreas Luthe's legs and he scored again seven minutes later, rounding the Union goalkeeper before finishing from a narrow angle.

Raphael Guerreiro scored the visitors' third from close range in the 71st and VAR added to the home fans' sense of injustice when Union's Kevin Mohwald had a goal ruled out because of an infringement in the build-up.

Ujah fired over late on and Union dropped to sixth with just their second defeat at home this season.

Dortmund were again without injured star forward Erling Haaland due to "muscular problems".

In the day's late game, Hoffenheim beat Arminia Bielefeld 2-0 and ended a series of three straight Bundesliga defeats.

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