Stuttgart 4-2 Freiburg
Eintracht 1-1 Nurnberg
Leverkusen 1-0 Hoffenheim
Hamburg 4-1 Dortmund
Hannover 1-1 Mainz
Bayern 1-1 Bremen
Cologne 1-3 Wolfsburg
Monchengladbach 2-1 Hertha
Schalke 3-0 Bochum
Wolfsburg look like taking some catching this season as they recorded another comfortable win. They had to come from behind against Cologne though, Fabrice Ehret's goal early in the second half merely angering the Wolves. After Sebastien Preis had twice wasted great chances, Cologne were indebted to keeper Faryd Mondragon for keeping them in the game with a string of saves to his name. Five minutes after the break, Ehret robbed a sleeping Alex Madlung and took the ball round Diego Benaglio and squeezed it home from a tight angle to hand Cologne the lead. Two goals in two minutes turned the game on it's head around the 75-minute mark. The brilliant Edin Dzeko got the first of those, sliding in at the back post, and Pierre Womé's 50p-head moment saw him nod the ball past Mondragon under pressure from Dzeko. With the clock running down, substitute Obafemi Martins took Grafite's pass, danced past a couple of defenders and slid the ball under Mondragon for his first goal from his new club.
Bayern scraped another point at home to Bremen for whom Mesut Ozil got the opener. This time it was Mario Gomez who rescued the Bavarians with a scrappy and barely deserved equaliser twenty minutes from the end. Stuttgart put promoted Freiburg to the sword with all six goals in the game coming after the break. Pavel Pogrebnyak opened his account for his new club with a very Gomez-esque goal for the opener before Elson's first, from the penalty spot, doubled the advantage. Mohamadou Idrissou pulled one back, but Elson's second restored the advantage. Idrissou's second gave Freiburg hope, but Julian Scheiber added a fourth for Markus Babbel's side in the dying seconds to seal it. An Eljero Elia-inspired Hamburg made short work of Dortmund, winning 4-1 and four goals coming in the opening quarter of an hour. Guy Demel but Hamburg ahead inside three minutes, but Nelson Valdez equalised inside 60 seconds. Ze Roberto put Hamburg back in front on ten minutes and Paolo Guerrero made it three two minutes later. Marcus Berg wrapped it up half way through the second half.
Leverkusen nullified Hoffenheim's usual attacking instincts and Stefan Kiessling made the most of some slack defending for the only goal of the game to hand his side all three points while there were draws for Eintracht at home to Nurnberg and Mainz at Hannover, both finishing 1-1. Gladbach had the result of the weekend in beating Hertha 2-1, Roel Brouwers and Karim Mantour putting them two up before Gojko Kacar made it a nervy finish. Finally, Schalke easily disposed of a Bochum side that look particularly poor this season. Christoph Moritz set them on their way five minutes from the break and Heiko Westermann adding a second immediately after the break. Jefferson Farfan added a third midway through the second period.
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