By

David Kent




PUBLISHED:


19:24, 14 December 2013




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UPDATED:


19:24, 14 December 2013


Bayern Munich extended their lead at the top of the Bundesliga with a 3-1 home victory over Hamburg.


Pep Guardiola’s side bounced back from their 3-2 Champions League defeat to Manchester City at the Allianz Arena thanks to goals from Mario Mandzukic, Mario Gotze and Xherdan Shaqiri.


Mandzukic’s close-range header with four minutes of the first half remaining opened the scoring.


Gap finder: Bayern Munich's Mario Mandzukic wins the battle in the middle of the box to open the scoring

Gap finder: Bayern Munich’s Mario Mandzukic wins the battle in the middle of the box to open the scoring


Head over heels: Mandzukic finds a gap in the defence Hamburg's Jonathan Tah flips past him

Head over heels: Mandzukic finds a gap in the defence Hamburg’s Jonathan Tah flips past him




Six minutes into the second half Mario Gotze doubled the lead.


Pierre-Michel Lasogga pulled a goal back for Hamburg but Shaqiri made sure of the points with the last kick of the game.


The win increases unbeaten Bayern’s lead at the top of the league to seven points and crowns them autumn champions, with second-placed Bayer Leverkusen playing on Sunday at home to Frankfurt.


Cracker: Mario Goetze rifles home Bayern's second as they extend their lead at the top of the Bundesliga

Cracker: Mario Goetze rifles home Bayern’s second as they extend their lead at the top of the Bundesliga



Great wall: Hamburg's goal scorer Pierre-Michel Lasogga had his work cut out to get anywhere near the ball

Great wall: Hamburg’s goal scorer Pierre-Michel Lasogga had his work cut out to get anywhere near the ball



Clincher: Xherdan Shaqiri put the result beyond doubt at 3-1

Clincher: Xherdan Shaqiri put the result beyond doubt at 3-1



Borussia Dortmund lost ground on the leaders but remain third after coming from behind to claim a draw at Hoffenheim.


Jurgen

Klopp’s side found themselves 2-0 down due to a 17th-minute strike from

Sven Schipplock and a Kevin Volland goal on the counter-attack.


However,

with a minute of the first half remaining, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s

close-range goal gave the visitors hope. Lukasz Piszczek salvaged a

point with a goal in the 66th minute.


Shock start: Hoffenheim's Sven Schipplock chipped Mitch Langerak for their first of two against Dortmund

Shock start: Hoffenheim’s Sven Schipplock chipped Mitch Langerak for their first of two against Dortmund


Clutch draw: Dortmund's Lukasz Piszczek (right) salvaged a 2-2 draw at Rhein-Neckar-Arena

Clutch draw: Dortmund’s Lukasz Piszczek (right) salvaged a 2-2 draw at Rhein-Neckar-Arena




Borussia

Monchengladbach, level on points with Dortmund at the start of the day,

were unable to take advantage and remain in fourth after a 0-0 draw at

Mainz.


A remarkable

recovery denied Nurnberg their first win of the season as Hannover came

from three goals down to clinch a 3-3 home draw.


Adam Hlousek, Josip Drmic and Per Nilsson gave Gertjan Verbeek’s men a comfortable cushion at the interval.


However, it was not enough to earn

the Bavarians their first win of the season as Leonardo Bittencourt and a

Mame Diouf brace snatched a point for the Reds with the Senegalese

striker scoring the equaliser deep in stoppage time.


Mid-table Augsburg ran out comfortable 4-1 winners over bottom club Eintracht Braunschweig.


Paul

Verhaegh put the Bavarians in front from the penalty spot midway

through the first half and two goals in three minutes from Andre Hahn

effectively sealed victory.


Tobias Oehrl pulled one back against his former club early in the second half, but Halil Altintop completed the rout.


Quickfire: Augsburg's Andre Hahn scored two in quick succession to get his side to 3-0 in their 4-1 win

Quickfire: Augsburg’s Andre Hahn scored two in quick succession to get his side to 3-0 in their 4-1 win




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bluemoon,


manchester, United Kingdom,


1 day ago


league over before xmas.


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz















Theo,


Emirates – ,


1 day ago


Boring league. Buying talents from rivals and making it a one horse race.














mark,


hildesheim,


1 day ago


What “talents” you idiot ? We only have one player from Dortmund ?















Disclosure,


San Diego, United States,


16 hours ago


At least Germany has talents…


















wisdomspeaks,


London, uk,


1 day ago


Easy squeazy















Ray,


UK,


1 day ago


Bayern were always going to win the Bundesliga. Far too superior, best team in the world.















ThomasCFC,


London,


1 day ago


Shaqiri is a player I wanna see in the Premier League one day. Preferably at Everton or Southampton. Top draw player!














VineJunk.com,


Luxembourg, Luxembourg,


1 day ago


Someone of his quality deserves a better Premier League team.


















doni,


london,


1 day ago


Well done Shaqiri





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