Hoffenheim missed out on reclaiming second place in the Bundesliga after Sundays 1-1 draw at strugglers Hamburg while leaders Bayern Munich finished the weekend four points clear after hammering Werder Bremen. Hoffenheim took an early lead when striker Anthony Modeste coolly slotted home in the 15th minute, but hosts Hamburg, who are third from bottom, hit back when Pierre-Michel Lasogga showed superb finishing on 34 minutes. The former Germany Under-21 international had several chances in the second-half and clipped the crossbar with 10 minutes left to leave Hoffenheim, Bayern, Mainz and Moenchengladbach as the leagues only unbeaten teams. The point lifts Hamburg up to 16th, while Hoffenheim are third after Borussia Moenchengladbach moved up to second with Saturdays 3-0 win at Hanover 96 when Germany striker Max Kruse scored twice. The weekends results mean first plays second when Gladbach host Bayern Munich in the leagues top game next Sunday. Paderborn moved up to seventh with a 3-1 comeback win against Eintracht Frankfurt, who dropped to eighth. Defender Uwe Huenemeier and striker Stefan Kutschke put the result beyond doubt after Marvin Duckschs stunning volley put Paderborn level after Frankfurt captain Alex Meier gave the guests a first-half lead. Pep Guardiolas Bayern maintained their stranglehold on the Bundesliga with their fifth straight victory on Saturday in a 6-0 rout of bottom side Bremen in Munich. The Bavarians warmed up for Tuesdays Champions League clash at Roma as captain Philipp Lahm moved up into the defensive midfield and scored the first double of his career while Germany star Mario Geotze also netted twice. Ex-Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso scored the first goal of his Bayern career when he drove his free-kick under the Bremen wall on 27 minutes after Lahm gave the hosts an early lead. Thomas Mueller put the hosts 3-0 up when he converted a penalty and Goetze made it 4-0 at the break before both he and Lahm added second-half goals. Roberto di Matteo got off to a winning start as Schalke 04 coach when the Royal Blues picked up only their third win of the season with a 2-0 victory at home to Hertha Berlin. The 44-year-old, who won the 2012 Champions League title during his eight-month reign at Chelsea, is looking for his second win when Schalke host Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday in Europe. Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar put Schalke ahead with a long-range header on 19 minutes before Germany midfielder Julian Draxler made it 2-0 with a well-taken goal on 65 minutes. The result lifts Schalke to ninth while Borussia Dortmunds horror league run continued as they lost 2-1 at Cologne to go five Bundesliga games without a win. It was their third defeat in a row ahead of Wednesdays Champions League clash at Galatasaray. Cologne took a 1-0 lead as midfielder Kevin Vogt fired home on 40 minutes. Although Dortmund striker Ciro Immobile equalised, Simon Zoller netted Colognes winner on 74 minutes after a mix-up in the Dortmund defence to seal their first home victory against Borussia since 2003. The result leaves Dortmund 14th – just a point above the bottom three – while Cologne are 11th. Bayer Leverkusen, who host Zenit St Petersburg in the Champions League on Wednesday, threw away a three-goal lead in their 3-3 draw at plucky VfB Stuttgart. A win would have seen Leverkusen go third, but the draw saw them drop to sixth. Leverkusen raced into a 2-0 lead after only nine minutes as South Koreas Son Heung-Min scored twice and he could have had a hat-trick on 11 minutes when his lob hit the crossbar before Germanys Karim Bellarabi made it 3-0 at the break. But Stuttgart battled back as midfielder Timo Werner and left- back Florian Klein scored second- half goals before Martin Harnik headed Stuttgart level on 76 minutes when he was left unmarked at the far post – by Son. VfL Wolfsburg went fifth with a 2-1 win at Freiburg as midfielder Daniel Caligiuri scored twice against his old club, while Mainz are joint third with Hoffenheim after their 2-1 win at home to Augsburg.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:21:24 +0000
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