Schalke moved up to second in the Bundesliga after a convincing win over Eintracht Frankfurt.
Goals from Joel Matip and Benedikt Howedes put the Gelsenkirchen side 2-0 up inside the first 15 minutes.
Alexander Meier pulled a goal back for the home side seven minutes into the second half but Ivan Rakitic and Kevin Kuranyi netted in the last 10 minutes to make sure of the win for Schalke.
Schalke leap above Bayer Leverkusen who travel to relegation-threatened Nuremberg tomorrow.
The visitors scored with their first attack of the game after 12 minutes, Matip heading in Marcio Rafinha's corner from close range.
The second three minutes later also came from a set-piece as Lukas Schmitz's free-kick into the Eintracht box found Schmitz who headed in.
Eintracht came out fighting in the second half and pulled a goal back when Meier diverted in Patrick Ochs' left-footed cross.
Schalke keeper Manuel Neuer then kept his side in front when he got down to save a speculative attempt from outside the box by Halil Altintop in the 75th minute.
But in the 80th minute, with Eintracht piling forward, Schalke broke upfield and Rakitic made the points safe when he fired in from inside the box.
Kuranyi then scored from a difficult angle on the right after he was played in by an intelligent pass from Christoph Moritz.
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