Nurnberg 0-1 Bochum
Dortmund 0-1 Schalke
Cologne 0-1 Leverkusen
Wolfsburg 4-2 Hannover
Bremen 3-0 Mainz
Eintracht 0-3 Stuttgart
Hamburg 1-0 Bayern
Freiburg 3-0 Monchengladbach
Hoffenheim 5-1 Hertha
Ze Roberto punished his former team-mates when Bayern paid a visit to Hamburg this weekend by setting up Mladen Petric for the only goal of the game. Bruno Labbadia had seen his side dumped out of the cup in midweek by third division Osnabruck while Bayern had Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben starting together for the first time. It mattered little. Despite a couple of early scares with Robben prominent, Hamburg dominated and when Ze Roberto got to the bye-line to square for Petric to side-foot home, it was fully deserved.
Hertha are in real bother now as Vedad Ibisevic's hat-trick inside the first quarter of the game had them reeling at the Rhein-Neckar. The Bosnian was brilliant a year ago as Hoffenheim topped the standings at christmas, but their season tailed off after he was badly injured. He's back now and no mistaking, scoring in the first, fourth and twentieth minutes to all but seal the game there and then. Raffael got one back in the stroke of half-time, but Chinedu Obasi and Carlos Eduardo, from the penalty spot, eased the Villagers to a big win. Leverkusen keep pace with Hamburg thanks to a 1-0 win over Cologne for whom Maniche was sent off. The Portuguese received his marching orders shortly after Simon Rolfes had put Bayer ahead. Wolfsburg won a hugely entertaining tussle with Hannover with Zvjezdan Misimovic's early free-kick getting it all started. Hanno Baltisch equalised, but Christian Gentner sent the Wolves in at half-time ahead. Japanese international Makoto Hasebe scored just after the break to give the champions a two-goal advantage, but hapless defender Alexander Madlung put through his own net to give Hannover a sniff. Edin Dzeko popped up with a crucial fourth for his side to win it.
Bremen and Schalke both won to keep pace at the top, over Mainz and Dortmund respectively. It wasn't as fiery a Ruhr derby in Dortmund as you normally expect, Jefferson Farfan with the only goal, sliding between two defenders to get to Halil Altintop's centre. Aaron Hunt gave Bremen the lead over Mainz and two Claudio Pizarro goals in the second half inflicted a big defeat on the promoted side. Stuttering Stuttgart saw off ten-man Eintracht who had Marco Russ sent off. Julian Scheiber had already scored twice by then and Tomas Hitzlsperger wrapped it up after the interval.
Freiburg continue their good form with a 3-0 win over Gladbach who a plummeting down the table. All the goals came in the second half, Mohamadou Idrissou, Yacine Abdessadki and Julian Schuster with them. New Bochum coach Frank Heinemann got his first win thanks to an early strike from Diego Klimowicz which was enough to see off Nurnberg.
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