B. Dortmund home wins 5-0 over Kaiserslautern

B. Dortmund home wins 5-0 over Kaiserslautern

Borussia Dortmund's charge up the Bundesliga continued with a dominant 5-0 home victory over Kaiserslautern.

Lucas Barrios opened the scoring in the 31st minute and Kevin Grosskreutz doubled the advantage just seven minutes later.

Mats Hummels made it 3-0 in the 65th minute and Robert Lewandowski and Barrios second completed the rout.

The victory gives Jurgen Klopp's team 12 points and second place in the table, three points behind surprise leaders Mainz. Kaiserslautern dropped to ninth place on seven points.

The game started at an extremely high tempo but with few chances until Shinji Kawaga's header in the 19th minute which Kaiserslautern goalkeeper Tobias Sippel was able to gather.

The visitors' first opportunity came two minutes later but Srdjan Lakic's flat shot went just wide.

Dortmund grabbed the lead in the 31st minute after a superb through ball by Nuri Sahin which Barrios ran onto before firing the ball through the legs of Sippel.

The home side doubled their lead seven minutes later on the counter attack with Sahin passing into the path of Grosskreutz, who turned before firing a shot in off the right-hand post.

Dortmund dominated the start of the second half with Sven Bender shooting just over the bar from 17 yards in the 48th minute.

Sippel just managed to block Kawaga's shot seven minutes later and Lukasz Piszczek blasted over the crossbar.

The hosts finally finished off the game in the 65th minute with a header from Hummels from Sahin's free-kick for his third assist of the night.

Lewandowski joined the scoring party 14 minutes from the end, looping Jakub Blaszczykowski's pass over Sippel to make it 4-0.

And Barrios struck again with two minutes to play to round off a comprehensive win.