Borussia Dortmund kept up some pressure on Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga with a 1-0 win at Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 21st goal of the season to earn Thomas Tuchel's men all three points and help them reduce the arrears on Bayern to eight points once again.
Perhaps more importantly, though, they are now 16 points clear of their hosts, who are in the Champions League play-off qualifying berth and recriminated a foul before Dortmund's goal which led to referee Felix Zwayer ordering both teams off the field for 10 minutes.
He also sent Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt to the stands.
Sunday's other games saw Stuttgart's five-game winning run come to an end with a 1-1 draw at Schalke.
Younes Belhanda and Martin Harnik scored the goals at the Arena AufSchalke as the Royal Blues missed an opportunity to move above Leverkusen into third, while Stuttgart extended their unbeaten run to eight.
That is the same number of games that Hannover have now lost in succession after they were beaten 1-0 by Augsburg.
The pressure is mounting on their coach Thomas Schaaf, who has lost five of those matches since taking over in the winter break, while Augsburg moved four points clear of the bottom three thanks to Ja-Cheol Koo's goal.
Source: PA
