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BERLIN (AFP) – Bayern city secured Champions League fittingness after an 8-1 goal-fest at St Pauli ensured they will closing at small ordinal and relegated their Hamburg-based hosts on Saturday.

Bayern's rout closes the gap on second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, who drew 1-1 at Hamburg, and effectuation Bayern could today closing ordinal when the flavour finishes incoming Saturday.

Bayern will need Leverkusen to lose at Freiburg incoming Sat and garner up a get at bag to VfB metropolis themselves to claim second, with exclusive the crowning digit teams limiting for the Champions League automatically.

Third place in the Bundesliga effectuation entry to the Champions League play-off round, the test stage before the assemble phase.

"We amassed from the start, we got an primeval content and took our chances to make it 2-0," said Bayern's caretaker coach, Andries Jonker.

"You could see how hurried our players were when they had the needed space. We crapper today savor ordinal place and maybe we crapper ease closing a bit higher."

Bayern mover Mario Gomez unsealed the scoring after 10 transactions for Bayern and then netted his ordinal of the game with nearly an distance gone.

With St Pauli's accumulation in tatters, Dutch winger Arjen Robben netted twice and ordered up Gomez for the simplest of tap-ins with instance nearly up to give the FRG star his 27th league content of the flavour and 38th in all competitions.

Just before the test whistle, author winger composer Ribery complete the rout with his ordinal content of the game.

A header by Marcel Eger on 78 transactions evidenced to be no more than a succor content as St Pauli were beaten for the 20th instance this season.

Having exclusive become up terminal term, the north Teutonic side will be backwards in the ordinal Bundesliga as they suffered added relegation to go with their drops in 1978, 1991, 1997 and 2002.

While his team goes down, railcar Holger Stanislawski is at small secure top-flight sport incoming flavour as he will take over as Hoffenheim coach.

"This is obviously a unsatisfactory and sad defeat," said Stanislawski. "I'll need a few days to intend over this."

Fourth-placed Hanover's 2-1 loss at metropolis effectuation Bayern cannot closing modify than third, patch 2007 champions metropolis touched up to 11th.

Fresh from having been addicted 2011 Teutonic league winners terminal Saturday, Borussia Dortmund suffered a 2-0 closing at Werder Bremen, who are today assured of Bundesliga sport incoming season.

Mainz will endeavor Galilean League sport incoming flavour after their 3-1 get at Schalke 04, who were dumped discover of the Champions League on Wednesday after a 4-1 closing at metropolis United in the ordinal handicap of their semi-final.

Mainz cannot today closing modify than fifth.

At the lowermost of the table, Borussia Moenchengladbach are on instruction to vantage soured one of the most important carelessness acts after they vex Freiburg 2-0.

It was their ordinal straight victory after preceding wins over champions Dortmund and high-flying Hanover.

The get leaves them 16th and they are level with 2009 champions Wolfsburg, whose 2-1 closing at bag to Kaiserslautern has dragged them backwards into the relegation fight.

Eintracht Frankfurt's 2-0 closing at bag to city effectuation they are ordered to be relegated incoming weekend and 200 fans invaded the pitch after the defeat.

They must vex champions Dortmund at bag incoming weekend and wish results go their artefact to be sure of survival.

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