Bereaved Jadon Sancho fired Borussia Dortmund nine points clear at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday with a late winner in a 2-1 derby triumph at Schalke, while a Robert Lewandowski double against Nuremberg lifted champions Bayern Munich up to second.
England winger Sancho, whose grandmother passed away in mid-week, slotted the winner 15 minutes from time in Gelsenkirchen to seal Dortmund's first away derby win for five years and maintained their unbeaten start to 14 league games.
"The goal was for my grandmother," Sancho told reporters after netting his sixth goal of the season.
Thomas Delaney's seventh-minute header for Dortmund was cancelled out by a Daniel Caligiuri penalty just after the hour mark before Sancho struck following a beautiful one-two with Raphael Guerreiro.
"The second goal by Sancho was worked out incredibly well -- we do things like that in training," said Dortmund captain Marco Reus.
"We really deserved it, because we dominated the game for 90 minutes. "We went off the boil in the second half, but showed the right mentality in the end."
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