Dortmund title party on hold
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April 25, 2011, Monday
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GERMAN Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund put title celebrations on hold on Saturday after a surprise 0-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Borussia Moenchengladbach cut its lead to five points.
Dortmund is on 69 points with Bayer Leverkusen, which beat Hoffenheim 2-1, on 64 with three matches left.
Cameroon's Mohamadou Idrissou snatched the winner in Gladbach when he beat marker Neven Subotic to slot in 10 minutes before the break as the hosts, desperate for a win that would boost their chances of staying up, showed no signs of nerves.
Gladbach coach Lucien Favre had prepared his team well against Dortmund's lethal offense and it allowed only one big chance in the first half when Robert Lewandowski was sent through by Mario Goetze but goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen stood his ground to protect its one-goal lead.
Goetze hit the crossbar midway through the second half as the visitors poured forward and Marcel Schmelzer saw his 20-meter shot palmed onto the post by ter Stegen.
The result lifted Gladbach off the bottom spot for the first time since mid-November.
"We did not make Gladbach run enough," said Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp. "We were not calm enough in our game but we clearly improved in the second half. A draw would have been deserved."
Earlier, Arturo Vidal capitalized on a defensive mix-up to score the winner in the 51st minute for Leverkusen. Gylfi Thor Sigurdsson gave Hoffenheim the lead in the 28th, then Michal Kadlec equalized for Leverkusen in the 40th.
Fourth-placed Bayern Munich needed an 89th-minute penalty by top scorer Mario Gomez to rescue a 1-1 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt and move a point behind third-placed Hanover 96, which is on 57.
The two teams are locked in a battle for a Champions League qualification spot.
Sebastian Rode scored for Frankfurt in the 54th.
Also, Schalke - with one eye on tomorrow's Champions League semifinal against Manchester United - lost 0-1 at home to Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen won 3-1 at St Pauli, and VfB Stuttgart beat Hamburger SV 3-0 at home.
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