Ancelotti shifts focus to Bundesliga title with double dreams dashed

Berlin - Carlo Ancelotti insisted he is focused on wrapping up the Bundesliga before assessing how successful his first season at Bayern Munich has been following a shock German Cup semi-final defeat.

April has been little short of a disaster for Ancelotti and Bayern.

The German champion threw away a 2-1 lead at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday before going down 3-2 to Borussia Dortmund.

That came a week after the Bavarian giant was dumped out of the Champions League at the quarter-final stage by Real Madrid.

Bayern remains on course for a fifth straight Bundesliga though, and Ancelotti refused to try summing up his first campaign in Munich with four league matches still to play and five more points needed to wrap up the title.

"It's too soon for that," said Ancelotti. "We have to now make things clear in the championship (German league) as quickly as possible."

Javi Martinez and Mats Hummels had netted first-half goals for Bayern to cancel out Marco Reus' early strike for Dortmund.

But Borussia roared back in the second-half, brushing off its 4-1 league hammering by Bayern just three weeks ago.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 35th goal of the season, set up by Ousmane Dembele, before the French attacker drilled home Dortmund's winner 16 minutes from time.

"The disappointment is huge," admitted captain Philipp Lahm, who will retire when the season ends.

"We wanted to reach the final, when we have a... lead, it should be hard to win against us," he insisted.

Bayern could win the Bundesliga as early as this weekend, if the team beats relegation-threatened Wolfsburg away on Saturday and second-placed RB Leipzig fails to defeat second-from-bottom Ingolstadt at home.

"If you become a (league) champion, it is never a bad season," added Lahm. "Despite all this I will try to enjoy the last few weeks."