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German Bundesliga Roundup, Jan. 29






Updated Jan 29, 2011 3:26 PM ET
Borussia Dortmund reclaimed its 11-point lead in the Bundesliga with a 3-0 win at Wolfsburg on Saturday, and Bayern Munich rose to third in the Bundesliga with a 3-1 victory at Werder Bremen.
Lucas Barrios, Nuri Sahin and Mats Hummels scored for Dortmund.
Per Mertesacker scored for Werder in the 47th minute, but his own goal gave Bayern the lead in the 75th after Arjen Robben had equalized 10 minutes earlier.

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Miroslav Klose completed the scoring for Bayern in the 86th. Werder goalkeeper Tim Wiese was sent off three minutes later.
Dortmund has 50 points, Leverkusen has 39 and Bayern 36 after 20 games played.
In Saturday's late game, Lewis Holtby's first-half strike earned Mainz a 1-0 local derby win at Kaiserslautern. The 20-year-old Holtby controlled a cut-back from Andreas Ivanschitz with his right foot before volleying with his left past goalkeeper Tobias Sippel in the 23rd minute.
Srdjan Lakic hit the post for Kaiserslautern late in the game.
Mainz is fourth with 36 points, behind Bayern on goal difference. Kaiserslautern remains in 13th place on 22 points.
Barrios got Dortmund off to a flying start. Sahin's wonderful pass beat the offside trap and the 18-year-old Mario Goetze squared to Barrios, who knocked the ball past goalkeeper Diego Benaglio from close range in the second minute.
Sahin slid in to crash the ball in off the underside of the bar for his fifth goal of the season in the 40th, after a shot from Barrios had been blocked.
Hummels scored from close range following a free kick from Sahin in the 71st, compounding the misery for embattled Wolfsburg coach Steve McClaren.
''That was our 10th win away from home, really world class,'' Sahin said. ''We played very well against a strong Wolfsburg side. I like Wolfsburg a lot, but I think they don't like me so much.''
Wolfsburg drops to 12th place with 23 points.
Robben should have given Bayern the lead before the interval, when he was set up by Mario Gomez following a swift counterattack, but his effort was directly at Wiese.
Mertesacker scored after the interval, squeezing the ball through a group of defenders and past goalkeeper Thomas Kraft to nestle inside the far post.
''I think we were more aggressive after going a goal behind,'' Robben said. ''Maybe that's what we needed. We played very well after that and deserved to win at the end.''
Robben equalized when he got ahead of Mikael Silvestre to convert Danijel Pranjic's cross in the 64th.

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Gomez caused Mertesacker's own goal in the 75th, sending in a close range cross that deflected off the unfortunate defender's shin.
Klose scored Bayern's third goal with a simple tap-in after being set up by Thomas Mueller.
Wiese was sent off for a rash challenge on Mueller shortly afterward.
Bremen general manager Klaus Allofs suggested Luiz Gustavo clearly handled the ball after Robben's equalizer.
''You need a bit of luck in a game and the correct decisions have to be made,'' Allofs said. ''It's absolutely ridiculous that we didn't get a penalty.''
Defender Isaac Vorsah scored the winner for Hoffenheim at Schalke with a header in the fourth minute, when goalkeeper Manuel Neuer failed to claim the ball from a corner.
Neuer denied Ryan Babel - making his Bundesliga debut after his switch from Liverpool - from adding a second in the 30th.
Charles Takyi scored twice to help St. Pauli to a 3-0 home win over Cologne to help his side climb out of the relegation playoff place, now occupied by Cologne.
He scored after being set up by Gerald Asamoah in the 30th, lifting the ball over goalkeeper Michael Rensing from 23 meters (yards) for his first goal of the season.
Takyi added his second five minutes later, the ball breaking kindly for him following an effort from Asamoah.
Florian Bruns added a penalty in the 76th.
''I'm happy with both my first Bundesliga goals,'' Takyi said. ''Three points and two goals. Simply super.''
Timmy Simons scored for Nuremberg over visiting Hamburger SV in the 60th, when he converted a penalty after goalkeeper Frank Rost had brought down Christian Eigler.
Gojko Kacar was sent off in the 69th, when he was harshly adjudged to have taken down Robert Mak.
Nuremberg scored from the resulting free kick, after Rost deflected the ball onto the crossbar, and Almog Cohen was first to react for his first Bundesliga goal.
 
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Ballack inspires Leverkusen to victory


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Updated Jan 28, 2011 5:26 PM ET
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Michael Ballack inspired Bayer Leverkusen to a 2-0 home win over Hannover in the Bundesliga to trim the gap on leader Borussia Dortmund to eight points on Friday.
Leverkusen moved five points clear of third-placed Hannover.

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Dortmund has played one game less and can go 11 clear if it beats Wolfsburg away on Saturday.
Ballack - back in the starting lineup for the first time in four months after recovering from injury - had 94 touches of the ball, more than anyone else.
"We saw two good teams today and it was a lot of work for us. The few chances we had, we used," said Leverkusen coach Jupp Heynckes. "I'd say we were somewhat the cleverer team."
Arturo Vidal had Leverkusen's first chance in the 9th minute when his low shot from the edge of the area skimmed past the post.
The Chilean scored in the 21st with a crisp shot from 16 meters (yards), after the Hannover defense failed to clear from Stefan Kiessling. Vidal created the initial chance for Kiessling after collecting a long punt forward by goalkeeper Rene Adler.
Ballack was given a defensive role in midfield where he faced Sergio Pinto - the man who injured his knee the last time the sides met on Sept. 11 - and he fouled him in the 22nd. Pinto returned the favor 10 minutes later.
Leverkusen captain Simon Rolfes' perfectly timed run onto the pass from Gonzalo Castro allowed him tuck it past goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler into the right corner in the 42nd.
Didier Ya Konan - Hannover's top scorer this season with 10 - was flagged offside early in the second half when he thought he was through on goal.
Ya Konan used his speed to cut between Sami Hyypia and Stefan Reinartz in the 59th, when his shot flew over the crossbar.
Hannover continued to press ahead, and Mohammed Abdellaoue could not keep his header below the bar after a wonderful cross from Steven Cherundolo shortly afterward.
Adler produced a flying save to deny Christian Schultz with 20 minutes remaining, and Zieler bettered it at the other end moments later, when he got a hand to Renato Augusto's chipped effort at the end of a counterattack.
Zieler denied Leverkusen again late in the game, when he rushed to scoop the ball from Castro after the defender beat the offside trap.
"We didn't have any big chances. The header (from Abdellaoue) was just over," said Hannover coach Mirko Slomka. "We're a little disappointed."

 
Robben hits out at Muller






Updated Jan 30, 2011 9:14 AM ET
Arjen Robben has hit out at Bayern Munich team-mate Thomas Muller following the pair's clash in Saturday's 3-1 win over Werder Bremen.
Muller gesticulated at Robben after the Dutchman took a poor free-kick during the match at the Weserstadion, and at the final whistle Robben angrily remonstrated with the Germany international over his actions.

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"I hate it when team-mates constantly raise their hands and complain," said Robben.
"It is disrespectful. We are a team.
"We don't need to do that. We have got to be role models and should not make things any harder than they are.
"You should not make such gesticulations."
Bayern coach Louis van Gaal played down the incident, preferring instead to concentrate on the positives.
"It is normal in Holland that we complain with each other and say what we have to say," he said. "There is a different culture in Germany.
"We are now third in the table, which is where we wanted to be, so hopefully things will settle down now."
 
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