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And the Bundesliga championship continues and approaches its climax. The 25th round of the league started on Saturday, which was marked by a low-scoring performance - only thirteen goals were scored in seven matches. In this round, the league favorites did not have much luck, especially the Bremen "Werder" club. After the Champions League fiasco, this time the Bremen club suffered another painful defeat - "Werder" lost 0-3 to Berlin's "Hertha" team in front of their fans. The start of the match did not promise an easy game for the hosts - in the 3rd minute of the match, a shot by Marcelinho was saved by the crossbar for the "Werder" team. At the beginning of the second half, I. Klasnic managed to send the ball into the goal of "Hertha", but the referee ruled that M. Klose was offside during the shot and the goal was disallowed. Soon the first goal of the match came, when the hosts' goalkeeper was beaten with a header by K. Boateng. After conceding the goal, "Werder" failed to recover and conceded two more - in the 76th minute Marcelinho scored after a counterattack, and seven minutes later Y. Basturk finally "closed" the hosts. Another German team also did not succeed, dropped out of the Champions League midweek. After a crushing defeat in Milan, on Saturday "Bayern" met with Bundesliga mid-table team "Wolfsburg". The Munich team controlled the ball longer and threatened the opponent's goal significantly more often, but they failed to score and the match ended in a draw. This was the second consecutive match in the Bundesliga where the "Bavarians" failed to secure a victory. Although the "Werder" team failed to take advantage of this stumble by the leaders, on Sunday "Hamburger" can do so - a victory against "Kaiserslautern" would reduce the gap from the leading "Bayern" to just six points. The "Nurnberg" team won a great victory, defeating the "Koln" players fighting for survival in the league, 4-3 away. Among the winners, R. Vittek was unstoppable for the second match in a row - the fantastic form demonstrated by the "Nurnberg" striker, who scored another "hat-trick" this round. In Saturday's match against "Koln", R. Vittek scored three times in the first 22 minutes and sent "Koln" into a tailspin. "Koln" showed character and managed to reduce the deficit, but they couldn't snatch at least a point and the club remained in the last position in the league. Meanwhile, after a noticeable improvement in performance after the winter break, the "Nurnberg" players with their second consecutive victory rose to twelfth place. The "Mainz" team managed to break their unsuccessful streak by defeating "Gladbach" 3-0 at home. All goals came in the second half - M. Zidan scored and M. Thurk scored two goals. The victory allowed the "Mainz" team to temporarily escape the relegation zone. Saturday's statistics 0 - 0 0 - 3 54` [0 - 1] Kevin Boateng 76` [0 - 2] Marcelinho 83` [0 - 3] Yildiray Bastürk 0 - 0 1 - 0 5` [1 - 0] Radomir Dalovic 0 - 0 3 - 4 6` [0 - 1] Robert Vittek (from a penalty kick) 16` [0 - 2] Robert Vittek 22` [0 - 3] Robert Vittek (from a penalty kick) 28` [1 - 3] Boris Zivkovic 58` [1 - 4] Ivan Saenko 61` [2 - 4] Marvin Matip 63` [3 - 4] Lukas Podolski 82` Christian Lell ("Koln") sent off 3 - 0 62` [1 - 0] Michael Thurk 68` [2 - 0] Mohamed Zidan 89` [3 - 0] Michael Thurk
