Dortmund: In-form Borussia Dortmund kept up their hopes of a trophy this season, easing past VfL Wolfsburg 2-0 on Tuesday with goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Robert Lewandowski — his 100th for the club — to reach the German Cup final.

Three-time winners Dortmund, who last lifted the trophy in 2012, could face holders and rivals Bayern Munich or second division Kaiserslautern in the final on May 17 in Berlin.

“For us today it was kind of a reward for all our efforts in the past few weeks,” Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp, whose team beat both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich last week, said.

“We did a lot things well but we had an opponent who was fresh and played great football. We had to do a lot of running to close the spaces and it was hard.”

Fired up by a ear-splittingly loud 80,000 strong crowd, the hosts, who beat champions Bayern 3-0 in the league on Saturday, grabbed a well-deserved 12th minute lead when Armenian Mkhitaryan picked up a pass from Marco Reus and slotted a low shot just inside the near post, past Wolfsburg goalkeeper Max Gruen and three defenders.

With half-time approaching, Belgium Under-21 international Junior Malanda hit the post for Wolfsburg and compatriot Kevin de Bruyne fired the rebound wide for the visitors.

It was a costly miss as Dortmund went 2-0 up 72 seconds later when Germany playmaker Reus found Lewandowski unmarked and he slammed his shot into the top left-hand corner to reach his milestone.

Lewandowski, who joined Dortmund four seasons ago from Polish side Lech Posen, will join Bayern at the end of the season and the final will be his last chance to win another title with Dortmund, who also beat Real Madrid 2-0 last week but were eliminated 3-2 on aggregate in the Champions League quarter-finals.