BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund came from behind with three goals in five minutes to rout Freiburg 5-1 and consolidate second place in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Jonathan Schmid put the visitors ahead in the 28th, but Dortmund seized control when Robert Lewandowski equalized in the 41st, Nuri Sahin added another in the 44th and Lewandowski grabbed his second in first half injury time.

Sahin grabbed his second in the 73rd, five minutes before Lewandowski played the ball across goal for Leonardo Bittencourt to wrap up the scoring.

“We started well and then conceded three goals through massive naivety. Then the game was lost,” Freiburg coach Christian Streich said.

Schalke lost 3-0 at Nuremberg to drop to fifth, relegation-threatened Augsburg claimed a valuable 1-0 win at Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen drew 2-2 with bottom side Greuther Fuerth, and Hoffenheim drew 0-0 with Mainz.

Dortmund started determined to make amends for last weekend’s loss to Schalke in the Ruhr derby, but the home side was stunned when Max Kruse picked out the unmarked Schmid to score with an easy finish at the far post.

Lewandowski became the first Dortmund player to score in his eighth successive Bundesliga game when he equalized with a header from Sahin’s free kick.

Sahin then scored his first goal since returning from Real Madrid and Liverpool with a crisp strike after some great work from Jakub Blaszczykowski on the left.

There was still time before the interval for Lewandowski to take his season tally to a league-leading 19 goals when Freiburg failed to clear the ball, allowing the Poland striker cut inside a defender before unleashing inside the far post.