Bundesliga Roundup....

ibrahim

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Oct 20, 2002
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Bayern Munich has moved three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga thanks to a 2-0 win against Bayer Leverkusen at the Olympia Stadion.

Roy Makaay put the home side ahead with a penalty on the stroke of half-time, and Paulo Guerrero netted on 68 minutes to seal victory.

Second-place Schalke slipped up as it could only draw 2-2 at Hansa Rostock, although it could have been much worse for the Gelsenkirchen club.

Ebbe Sand put Schalke ahead on 25 minutes, but goals midway through the second half from Rade Prica and Magnus Arvidsson put bottom club Rostock 2-1 up.

The home side then suffered a blow when striker Marcus Allback was sent off, and in the last minute Schalke scored through Ailton to grab a point.

Stuttgart, in third, could also only manage a draw, despite going ahead through Kevin Kuranyi at home to Kaiserslautern.

Kaiserslautern had Lucien Mettomo sent off, but it grabbed a point in the 1-1 draw thanks to a 60th-minute Marco Engelhardt effort.

With a number of the top teams slipping up, Hertha Berlin took advantage and moved up to fourth thanks to a 3-0 win at Mainz. Yildiray Basturk netted either side of Andreas Neuendorf's 68th minute effort to secure all three points.

Bochum is still in trouble in the bottom three after its 1-1 draw with Arminia Bielefeld.

A Peter Madsen penalty put Bochum in front on 19 minutes, but Delron Buckley made it 1-1 just 10 minutes later.

Meanwhile, there were 3-1 away wins for both Hamburg and Borussia Dortmund.

Hamburg downed Nurnberg despite suffering a slight scare. A brace from Naohiro Takahara had Hamburg 2-0 up, but the home side pulled one back through Robert Vittek with eight minutes remaining to set up a grandstand finish. However Benjamin Lauth netted in the last minute to end any hopes of a Nurnberg comeback.

There were no such frights for Borussia Dortmund at Hannover though, as it raced into a 3-0 lead after just 50 minutes thanks to goals from Jan Koller and Lars Ricken (2).

Nebojsa Krupnikovic pulled one back for Hannover with a 73rd-minute penalty, but it was no more than a consolation for the home team