Bundesliga season as they were beaten 3-1 at
Borussia Monchengladbach.
Bayern -- who had claimed 13 wins and a draw
from their opening 14 league games -- remain in
a commanding position in the league but their
hopes of an unbeaten domestic campaign came
to a crashing halt.
Oscar Wendt, Lars Stindl and Fabian Johnson
scored three goals in 14 second-half minutes as
Bayern paid the price for missing a host of first-
half chances.
Franck Ribery came on with 15 minutes
remaining and marked his return after 269 days
out injured by scoring what proved Bayern's
consolation in the 81st minute, as Pep Guardiola's
team missed out on becoming winter champions.
Borussia Dortmund reduced the gap on Bayern to
five points by becoming the first side to beat
Wolfsburg on their own turf since March 2014.
Marco Reus' goal put Dortmund in front, but it
took a last-gasp Shinji Kagawa goal for them to
gain revenge for defeat in last June's DFB-Pokal
final with a 2-1 win at the Volkswagen Arena.
Wolfsburg thought they had snatched a point
when Ricardo Rodriguez levelled from the penalty
spot only seconds before Kagawa's winner.
Hertha Berlin won the battle of fifth against sixth
to move five points clear of Bayer Leverkusen with
a 2-1 triumph at the Olympiastadion.
Vladimir Darida put the Old Lady in front, but
Javier Hernandez's eighth goal in his last 10
games brought Leverkusen level.
They had been playing with 10 men since the
17th minute when Sebastian Boenisch was sent
off, and they were beaten by John Anthony
Brooks' header on the hour mark, dropping to
eighth ahead of a crucial Champions League clash
with Barcelona on Wednesday.
Augsburg moved out of the bottom three thanks
to a 1-0 win over Cologne at the
Mungersdorferstadion through a Raul Bobadilla
free kick.
Mainz brought an abrupt end to Hamburg's
recent purple patch with a 3-1 win at the
Volksparkstadion.
Jairo Samperio gave the guests the lead in
unorthodox fashion after 16 minutes, lobbing the
ball over Jaroslav Droby while lying flat on the
ground after his initial cross came straight back
to him off a Hamburg defender.
Samperio doubled Mainz's lead early in the
second half, and Christian Clemens added a third
on the counter-attack.
Mark Uth salvaged struggling Hoffenheim a point
at Ingolstadt with an equaliser in the sixth minute
of stoppage time to draw 1-1 in Bavaria.
Roger scored with a free kick in the 66th minute,
but it was not enough for all three points, though,
as Uth equalised deep in stoppage time,
rewarding Huub Stevens' side for their
determination and taking them off the foot of the
table, at least for a night.
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