German Bundesliga Weekend Review

Borussia Dortmund kept up the chase of Mainz at the top of the Bundesliga as they beat Bayern Munich 2-0 on Sunday.

Dortmund went ahead in the 52nd minute thanks to a goal from Lucas Barrios and Nuri Sahin sealed the win eight minutes later from a free-kick.
The result takes Dortmund 10 points clear of Bayern and three behind leaders Mainz, who beat Hoffenheim on Saturday.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Stuttgart's Bundesliga struggles continued with a 2-1 home loss against Eintracht Frankfurt, condemning them to sit in last place over the international break.

Theofanis Gekas opened the scoring in the 18th minute before Chris doubled the lead in the 68th minute for Frankfurt.
Stuttgart went a man down in the 84th minute as Matthieu Delpierre saw red, though Pavel Pogrebnyak pulled a goal back a minute later.
The loss was Stuttgart's sixth in seven games and left them with three points in dead last - one point behind Schalke.
In the day's other game Eren Derdiyok grabbed a late equaliser to earn a 2-2 draw for Bayer Leverkusen after they surrendered an early lead against Werder Bremen.
Patrick Helmes' goal in the 16th minute for Leverkusen was equalised by Hugo Almeida after 53 minutes.
Marko Marin completed the turnaround for Bremen in the 62nd minute before Derdiyok equalised in the 78th minute of an exciting, up-tempo match.
On Saturday Mainz equalled the record for successive Bundesliga wins at the start of a season with a 4-2 victory over Hoffenheim.
Thomas Tuchel's men made it seven from seven - matching the achievement of Bayern Munich in 1994 and Kaiserslautern in 2001 - with another wonderful display at the Stadion am Bruchweg.
Sami Allagui, Adam Szalai, Lewis Holtby and Andre Schurrle, from the penalty spot, got the Mainz goals with Demba Ba and Gylfi Sigurdsson replying.
Hoffenheim's hopes of salvaging a point ended when veteran defender Josip Simunic was sent off for a foul on Holtby which led to Schurrle's spot-kick.
Papiss Cisse's strike 20 minutes from time settled an entertaining encounter at the Dreisam Stadion as Freiburg edged Cologne 3-2.
Jan Rosenthal had given the hosts the ideal start with two goals in the first 11 minutes but the visitors responded well and got back on level terms thanks to efforts from Youssouf Mohamad and Adam Matuschyk.
That looked to have been enough to earn struggling Cologne only their sixth point of the season, but Senegalese striker Cisse - who had been an injury doubt before kick-off - had other ideas.
Hamburg came back from one down to beat Kaiserslautern 2-1 and end a run of four successive defeats.
Srdjan Lakic gave the visitors the lead after just three minutes but Gojko Kacar levelled in the 69th minute and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting hit the winner with six minutes to go.
With the win, Hamburg jumped up to seventh.
Wolfsburg's three-game winning streak ended as Thorben Marx's second-half equaliser secured a 1-1 draw for Borussia Monchengladbach.
Thomas Kahlenberg had given Steve McClaren's Wolves a 27th-minute lead but Marx levelled matters 25 minutes from time.
Schalke's league woes returned to haunt them as they slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Nurnberg.
Schalke's Jermaine Jones was sent off for a second booking in the 53rd minute and the hosts capitalised with Mike Frantz hitting the opener nine minutes later.
Klaas Jan Huntelaar equalised in the 74th minute but Nurnberg captain Andreas Wolf struck the winner with seven minutes to play.
Marius Ebbers' first goal of the season earned St Pauli a 1-0 victory over high-flying Hannover at the AWD-Arena on Friday night.
The 32-year-old met Bastian Oczipka's teasing cross with a bullet header which flew in off a post in the sixth minute to earn the Hamburg-based side their third away win of the campaign.

Hannover ended the match with 10 men, Karim Haggui dismissed in the 80th minute for bringing down Matthias Lehmann when he was through on goal.

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