Dortmund routs Wolfsburg 5-1, Bremen beats Cologne - 7M sport

Dortmund routs Wolfsburg 5-1, Bremen beats Cologne



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Posted Sunday, November 06, 2011 by YAHOO Sport

BERLIN (AP)—Claudio Pizarro scored a hat trick as Werder Bremen came from behind to defeat Cologne 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday, and defending champion Borussia Dortmund routed Wolfsburg 5-1.

Christian Clemens and Lukas Podolski put Cologne 2-0 up at the break. Pizarro pulled one back after a goalmouth scramble in the 49th, equalized with a penalty five minutes later—after Cologne had a player sent off—and sealed the win in the 86th.

“It’s amazing to see again and again that Claudio Pizarro is clearly getting better with age,” said Werder coach Thomas Schaaf.

Dortmund, Bremen and Borussia Moenchengladbach, which won 2-1 at Hertha Berlin, are all two points behind leader Bayern Munich. Bayern visits relegation-threatened Augsburg on Sunday.

Also on Saturday, Freiburg won at Nuremberg 2-1, Hoffenheim drew with Kaiserslautern 1-1, and Hamburger SV came from behind to draw 2-2 at Bayer Leverkusen in the late game.

Leverkusen went ahead through Andre Schuerrle’s deflected free kick in the fifth minute, before Lars Benders met Schuerrle’s cross to make it 2-0 in the 20th.

“At the start, it was probably the best 30 minutes of the season,” said Leverkusen’s Michael Ballack, who wore a protective mask after breaking his nose last weekend. “Then we changed down two gears.”

Hamburg captain Heiko Westermann pulled one back in the 34th, and Marcell Jansen—who was unlucky to have a goal ruled out in the first half—deservedly equalized in the 57th, when Goekhan Toere found him free on the left.

Bremen got off to a bad start when Clemens headed Podolski’s cross beyond Tim Wiese in the third minute, and the midfielder returned the favor for Podolski to finish a fine counterattack in the 45th.

Pizarro had been involved in 11 of Werder’s previous 12 goals, and the Peru striker made his mark again early in the second half when Cologne failed to clear the ball.

Henrique Sereno was unlucky to be sent off in the 53rd for bringing down Markus Rosenberg, and Pizarro sent Michael Rensing the wrong way from the resulting penalty.

“There are 300 penalties in every game if you whistle for something like that,” said Cologne’s Sascha Riether.

The 33-year-old Pizarro claimed his 11th goal of the season—and the win— when he met Rosenberg’s header to finish from close range.

“I’m scoring everything at the moment. It’s unbelievable,” Pizarro said. “We always play like that. We go behind and then turn the game around.”

Mario Goetze scored twice for Dortmund, opening the scoring in the 12th after playing a one-two with Shinji Kagawa.

“Because we have such great players in our team, every player does his bit in every training session, in every game, to push our limits and play our football,” said Goetze. “That’s why it’s such fun.”

Sven Bender and Robert Lewandowski combined to set up Kagawa for Dortmund’s deserved second before the interval.

Alexander Hleb pulled one back in the 59th, but Bender killed off any hopes of a comeback when he scored two minutes later.

Lewandowski put the issue beyond doubt in the 66th, when Kagawa split the defense with a terrific through ball, and Goetze sprung the offside trap to score his second in the 78th.

Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp said the win was “deeply tarnished” due to Neven Subotic’s facial fracture sustained in a blow by Sotirios Kyrgiakos’ elbow in the 42nd. The defender needs surgery ruling him out of action for around six weeks.

Moenchengladbach coach Lucien Favre made his first return to former club Hertha, and two players he brought to the German capital combined to score for Berlin in the 18th, when Raffael set up Adrian Ramos to fire beyond Marc-Andre ter Stegen

Marco Reus equalized with the visitors’ first chance in the 33rd, and scored the winner in the 55th, on the rebound after Thomas Kraft saved Juan Arango’s initial effort.

“We’re all very good at the moment, not just me, but the whole squad,” Reus said.

Papiss Demba Cisse sealed Freiburg’s win when he scored a penalty in injury time.

Tomas Pekhart scored for Nuremberg in the 32nd, but Jan Rosenthal capitalized on a defensive mix-up to equalize two minutes later.

Germany coach Joachim Loew was joined by United States coach Juergen Klinsmann at Sinsheim, to see Vedad Ibisevic put Hoffenheim ahead against the run of play in the 33rd.

Kaiserslautern’s Dorge Rostand Kouemaha equalized with the goal of the day in the 73rd, when Richard Sukuta-Pasu chested Christian Tiffert’s cross for the Cameroon striker to fire in a volley from 20 meters (yards).

“We did everything wrong,” Hoffenheim coach Holger Stanislawski said. “We can be happy with this point, because it’s very, very lucky.”



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