Bayern on top after Gomez's hat-trick
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August 29, 2011, Monday
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BAYERN Munich's Mario Gomez scored a hat-trick to give his team a 3-0 win at Kaiserslautern on Saturday and send the Bavarians top of the German Bundesliga as champion Borussia Dortmund drew 0-0 at Bayer Leverkusen to stay two points behind.
Gomez, last season's Bundesliga top scorer, converted a 37th-minute penalty and added another 10 minutes after the restart, when goalkeeper Kevin Trapp saved the striker's second spot-kick before Gomez tapped in the rebound.
The Germany international completed his hat-trick by firing in from close range after a Thomas Mueller cross. Bayern, without the injured Arjen Robben, kept a clean sheet for the fifth consecutive game in all competitions.
"This was our best game this season," Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. "But we must still improve the way we convert our chances. Defensively we did not allow anything and I liked to see that."
Dortmund endured more than an hour of Leverkusen superiority before Michal Kadlec was sent off, allowing the champion to press for a goal and force a handful of superb saves from 19-year-old keeper Bernd Leno.
Dortmund was also left with 10 men when Mario Goetze was sent off for kicking Hanno Balitsch 13 minutes from time. Leverkusen and Dortmund both have seven points from four games.
Second place
Werder Bremen snatched a late 2-1 win at Hoffenheim thanks to a goal by Markus Rosenberg. It moved to nine points, in second place behind Bayern on goal difference.
SC Freiburg piled more misery on 2009 champion VfL Wolfsburg, beating it 3-0 for its third straight defeat. Wolfsburg is 15th with three points from four games.
Hamburg thought it had ended its own bad run when it led twice against FC Cologne, but had to suffer its third loss in four games when the visitors grabbed an entertaining 4-3 victory with two goals in the final six minutes.
Bayern did not give Kaiserslautern time to find its footing in the game and, despite the absence of Robben, poured forward, mainly down the left wing with Philipp Lahm and Franck Ribery dictating play.
Kaiserslautern's Trapp was kept busy from the start but was well beaten in the ninth, when Lahm was sent through by Gomez only to curl his shot wide from 10 meters out.
Gomez, last season's Bundesliga top scorer, converted a 37th-minute penalty and added another 10 minutes after the restart, when goalkeeper Kevin Trapp saved the striker's second spot-kick before Gomez tapped in the rebound.
The Germany international completed his hat-trick by firing in from close range after a Thomas Mueller cross. Bayern, without the injured Arjen Robben, kept a clean sheet for the fifth consecutive game in all competitions.
"This was our best game this season," Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. "But we must still improve the way we convert our chances. Defensively we did not allow anything and I liked to see that."
Dortmund endured more than an hour of Leverkusen superiority before Michal Kadlec was sent off, allowing the champion to press for a goal and force a handful of superb saves from 19-year-old keeper Bernd Leno.
Dortmund was also left with 10 men when Mario Goetze was sent off for kicking Hanno Balitsch 13 minutes from time. Leverkusen and Dortmund both have seven points from four games.
Second place
Werder Bremen snatched a late 2-1 win at Hoffenheim thanks to a goal by Markus Rosenberg. It moved to nine points, in second place behind Bayern on goal difference.
SC Freiburg piled more misery on 2009 champion VfL Wolfsburg, beating it 3-0 for its third straight defeat. Wolfsburg is 15th with three points from four games.
Hamburg thought it had ended its own bad run when it led twice against FC Cologne, but had to suffer its third loss in four games when the visitors grabbed an entertaining 4-3 victory with two goals in the final six minutes.
Bayern did not give Kaiserslautern time to find its footing in the game and, despite the absence of Robben, poured forward, mainly down the left wing with Philipp Lahm and Franck Ribery dictating play.
Kaiserslautern's Trapp was kept busy from the start but was well beaten in the ninth, when Lahm was sent through by Gomez only to curl his shot wide from 10 meters out.
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