European football: Bayern edge closer to title by hitting Schalke for six

Bayern Munich powered past struggling Schalke 6-0, with two goals from Serge Gnabry, to put the pressure on Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga and close in on their 11th straight league crown with two games remaining.

Thomas Müller, whose future at the club has been in doubt since his benching with the arrival of Thomas Tuchel in March, opened their account in the 21st minute and Joshua Kimmich doubled their lead eight minutes later with a well-struck penalty.

With Schalke offering no resistance, the Bavarians picked up where they had left off after the break and Gnabry drilled in his shot in the 50th after João Cancelo’s superb early work in the box.

Gnabry then made it 4-0 with a dizzying sprint in the 65th before the substitute Mathys Tel also got on the score sheet from a Jamal Musiala assist. Tel then turned provider for Noussair Mazraoui in stoppage time to make it half a dozen goals for the hosts.

Bayern are on 68 points and have two games left to play. Borussia Dortmund kicked off against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the late game four points behind, albeit with three games left.

Real Madrid, who host Getafe in the late game in Spain, have lost a €400m (£350m) court battle with the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala over the proposed sponsorship of the Santiago Bernabéu, sources with knowledge of the case have told Reuters.

Madrid had claimed the money because it said Mubadala had failed to honour a sponsorship deal under which it would acquire rights to name the stadium for 20 years. An arbitral tribunal under the court of international trade in Paris has ruled that delays and changes in the redevelopment of the ground meant the sponsorship deal had expired, the source told Reuters.

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