Schalke 2-0 Eintracht
Hannover 5-2 Freiburg
Bayern 0-0 Cologne
Leverkusen 4-0 Nurnberg
Bochum 1-1 Wolfsburg
Mainz 2-1 Hoffenheim
Monchengladbach 0-1 Dortmund
Stuttgart 0-2 Bremen
Hertha 1-3 Hamburg
The last thing you need when you find yourself rock bottom is a suicidal goalkeeper. No, scratch that. The second last thing you need is a suicidal goalkeeper. The last thing you need is two of them. Friedhelm Funkel (great name) took over from the sacked Lucien Favre just 24 hours before the game against Hamburg kicked off and it was all going swimmingly when Arne Friedrich got on the end of Raffael's neat flick in the ninth minute, but then the calamity started. Firstly, Kaka headed past starting keeper Timo Ochs before he was replaced by Sascha Burchert due to injury. The 18-year old handed Hamburg their other two goals with some spectacular brain fartery. Twice, he came out to clear with diving headers. Twice, the ball found itself at the feet of a Hamburg player. Twice, that Hamburg player put it away as Burchert was twice slow to his feet and left completely stranded. David Jarolim was the recipient of the first gift and the always outstanding Ze Roberto the second. Hertha are a mess while Hamburg continue to lead.
Leverkusen remain on Hamburg's heels after another sizeable win, 4-0 over Nurnberg. Toni Kroos got them going just two minutes in and it was three by half time through Simon Rolfes' penalty and Eren Derdiyok. Stefan Kiessling wrapped it up after the break. Bayern, Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim all lost ground on the leaders. Bayern were held to a goalless draw by Cologne while cracks are beginning to appear in Wolfsburg's make-up, Grafite publicly criticising his boss Armin Veh after he was taken off early in the second half. They were a goal down to Bochum - Vahid Hashemian with the goal - midway through the second half when Shinji Ono was sent off, leaving Bochum to hang on with ten men. Edin Dzeko grabbed an equaliser for the champions. Hoffenheim went down to Mainz, early goals from Andreas Ivanschitz and Aristide Bancé giving the promoted side the advantage and the Villagers couldn't muster a response until Andreas Ibertsberger struck three minutes from time. Schalke continue to grind out unimpressive victories and did so again over Eintracht. Gerald Asamoah came off the bench to give them a lead before Pirmin Schwegler was sent off for the Frankfurters. A late penalty from Jefferson Farfan made it safe.
Hannover were impressive in sticking five past Freiburg who had been going well. Sofian Chahed and Arnold Bruggink gave Hannover an early two-goal lead, but Ivica Banovic pulled one back before the break. Karim Haggui restored the advantage before Julian Schuster pulled one back late on, setting up a grandstand finish. However, Hannover responded brilliantly with Didier Ya Konan and Sergio Pinto adding some polish to the scoreline with ever later strikes. Lucas Barrios got the only goal of the game as Dortmund came away from Gladbach with the points and Bremen added to Stuttgart's misery with a two-goal win, Claudio Pizarro and Aaron Hunt the scorers.
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