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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015 SPORTS Wolfsburg rout Bremen BERLIN: VfL Wolfsburg cemented second Aubameyang claimed his fifth goal in as place in the Bundesliga yesterday with a 5- many league games on 78 minutes and cel- 3 thumping of Werder Bremen with Bas ebrated by donning a ‘Batman’ hat, playing Dost taking his tally to 11 goals in six up to his ‘caped crusader’ nickname, which games. earned him a booking. Team-mate Marco Wolves’ Dutch striker Dost is on an Reus wore a ‘Robin’ mask to play his side- incredible scoring run with nine goals in his kick. Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Reus added last four league games and two in as many Dortmund’s goals as Borussia created 31 Europa League games. shots on goals compared to Schalke’s mea- Bremen suffered their first defeat of gre three. 2015 after a fairytale run of five previous The defeat drops Schalke, who were wins and a draw has taken them from last missing several stars with injury, to fifth to ninth in Germany’s top flight. while neighbours Dortmund are now just “We always belived in the win. We have eight points adrift of a Champions League repeatedly proven we can always come place for next season. back quickly,” said Dost, who scored four Bayer Leverkusen built on their shock goals in Wolves’ 5-4 win at Bayer Champions League win over Atletico Leverkusen a fortnight ago. Madrid on Wednesday with a 1-0 win at The game at Werder’s Weserstadion home to strugglers Freiburg to go fourth. began at a frantic pace as the scores stood Veteran midfielder Simon Rolfes, who at 2-2 with 18 minutes gone. Bremen took a will retire at the end of the season, grabbed half-time lead after an own-goal from a first-half winner to give Leverkusen their Wolves’ Portugal midfielder Vieirinha from a first league win in four games. shot by Werder’s Felix Kroos, brother of Augsburg dropped to sixth after their 1- Germany star Toni. 0 defeat at Hertha Berlin as ex-Chelsea Dost then played a part in Wolves’ three striker Salomon Kalou scored a late winner second-half goals, netting in the 47th and at the Olympic Stadium to claim his sixth 50th minutes before giving Daniel Caligiuri goal of the season. a simple tap-in. Stuttgart stay bottom after their 1-1 The weekend’s results mean the league’s draw at Hanover 96 while Hoffenheim are top three have a settled look about them two points from a European place after with three months left of the season. their 2-0 win at home to Mainz. Leaders Bayern remain eight points Ten-man Hamburg drop back to just clear, while Wolfsburg appear just as above the relegation places after their 2-1 unlikely to be caught with a ten-point lead defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt. On Friday, over Borussia Moenchengladbach. Bayern Munich celebrated their 115th Gladbach cemented third with a 2-0 win birthday with a 4-1 win over Cologne to go at home to relegation-threatened 11 points clear at Munich’s Allianz Arena. ITALY: Lazio’s Miroslav Klose (center) scores against Sassuolo during a Serie A soccer match at Reggio Emilia’s Mapei stadium. —AP Paderborn with goals either side of half- Arjen Robben netted his 17th goal in 19 time by USA international Fabian Johnson league matches this season with a crisp and Patrick Herrmann. header with 20 minutes left to remain the On Saturday, Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick league’s top scorer. Anderson inspires Lazio, Aubameyang played Borussia Dortmund’s Captain Bastian Schweinsteiger and ‘superhero’ by scoring their opening goal in Franck Ribery put Bayern 2-0 up inside the 3-0 home win over Schalke 04 in the 10 minutes. Nigeria international Ruhr Valley derby. Anthony Ujah scored for Cologne just Samp end winless run Dortmund are tenth after picking up before half-time before Robben and their fourth consecutive league win having Robert Lewandowski extended Bayern’s started February bottom of the table. lead.—AFP MILAN: Felipe Anderson hit a first-half wonder a five-game winless run by Sinisa Mihajlovic’s after Sportiello spilled Eto’o’s strike from the strike and set up Miroslav Klose for Lazio’s sec- men. Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto’o saw a edge of the area. ond in a 3-0 win over Sassuolo as the speculative effort go wide early on but Atalanta Mihajlovic told Mediaset it was a game of Biancocelesti closed to within two points of took a first-half lead thanks to Guglielmo two halves: “I’m happy for the win, but we really third-placed Napoli in Italy’s Serie A yesterday. Stendardo’s tap-in at the back post on the quar- showed two sides of ourselves. “In the first half Elsewhere, Luis Muriel and Stefano Okaka hit ter-hour. we gifted them far too much and thankfully, in second-half goals as Sampdoria ended a five- Muriel by far looked Sampdoria’s best player the second, we turned our whole game around.” game winless streak at Atalanta, while a close- and the Colombian finally pulled the visitors Earlier, Luca Toni and Juanito Gomez struck range header from Spanish striker Rodriguez level with a finely-taken half-volley on 70 min- either side of half-time to help Verona to a 2-1 gave relegation candidates Cesena a useful 1-0 utes. Muriel started the move deep in midfield win at struggling Cagliari, who saw Daniele win over Udinese. and after his deflected ball found Okaka, the Conti hit a late consolation from a free kick on Genoa v Parma was postponed as the visi- Colombian pounced on the Italian’s return pass the edge of the area. The win moved Verona tors, whose game against Udinese last week to beat Marco Sportiello from the left side of the eight points clear of the drop zone, with Cagliari was also suspended, continue to suffer from the area. Okaka secured the points seven minutes - third from bottom - now just one point ahead financial struggles that could see the club’s later when he ran in to tap home the rebound of second-from-bottom Cesena. —AFP future decided by a bankruptcy hearing later this month. Paulo Dybala starred for Palermo but the Italian League results/standings Sicilians failed to score in a league game for only the second time this season after being Cagliari 1 (Conti 90) Verona 2 (Toni 9, Gomez 56); Atalanta 1 (Stendardo 16) Sampdoria 2 (Muriel held to a scoreless draw by Empoli. 68, Okaka 81); Cesena 1 (Rodriguez 76) Udinese 0; Genoa v Parma - postponed; Palermo 0 Empoli Leaders Juventus will look to take their lead 0; Sassuolo 0 Lazio 3 (Anderson 45, Klose 70, Parolo 77). over Roma to 12 points when they meet in the Italian capital on Monday, but in the meantime Playing later the race for the third and last Champions Inter v Fiorentina, Torino v Napoli League qualifying spot is heating up. Lazio travelled to the Mapei Stadium looking Played Saturday for their third win on the trot and Anderson Chievo 0 AC Milan 0 broke the deadlock in style on the stroke of half- time with a superb curling strike that beat Playing today Andrea Consigli at the keeper’s top right hand Roma v Juventus corner. It was the 21-year-old’s sixth league goal this Italian Serie A table after yesterday afternoon games (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals season and on 70 minutes the Brazilian forward against, points): turned provider with a fine delivery from the GERMANY: Bremen’s Jannik Vestergaard from Denmark (rear) and Wolfsburg’s Kevin right for Klose to head past Consigli for his. Juventus 24 17 6 1 51 13 57 De Bruyne from Belgium in action during the German First Division Bundesliga soc- Lazio tripled their lead moments later after Roma 24 13 9 2 37 18 48 cer match. —AP Anderon’s strike from just outside the area rico- Napoli 24 13 6 5 44 30 45 cheted before landing kindly for Manolo Parolo Lazio 25 13 4 8 43 27 43 to feint and then dink the ball past Consigli. Fiorentina 24 10 9 5 36 24 39 German League results/standings Lazio remain fourth but are now two points Sampdoria 25 9 12 4 32 28 39 behind Napoli ahead of their trip to Torino for Genoa 24 9 9 6 36 29 36 Borussia Moenchengladbach 2 (Johnson 18, Herrmann 81) Paderborn 0; Werder Sunday’s late game. Coach Stefano Pioli paid Inter Milan 24 9 8 7 39 31 35 Bremen 3 (Junuzovic 9, Di Santo 16, Vieirinha 29-og) VfL Wolfsburg 5 (Caligiuri 10, 53, tribute to his ambitious side but told Sky Sport: AC Milan 25 8 10 7 35 30 34 Arnold 18, Dost 47, 50). “We played well and we deserved the win but Palermo 25 8 10 7 38 39 34 we put ourselves at risk on occasions in defence Torino 24 8 9 7 27 25 33 Played Saturday when we really should have put the game Sassuolo 25 6 11 8 29 38 29 Borussia Dortmund 3 (Aubameyang 78, Mkhitaryan 79, Reus 86) Schalke 04 0; Bayer beyond doubt in the opening half.” Udinese 24 7 7 10 26 32 28 Leverkusen 1 (Rolfes 33) Freiburg 0; Hoffenheim 2 (Volland 55, Polanski 76) Mainz 05 0; He added: “I’m fortunate to be coaching a Empoli 25 5 13 7 25 27 28 Hannover 96 1 (Stindl 70) VfB Stuttgart 1 (Gentner 52); Hertha Berlin 1 (Kalou 88) squad that is committed and attentive.