Bayer Leverkusen 1 : 4 Koln - Cologne wins 4-1 at Bayer Leverkusen

Posted Sunday, September 18, 2011 by YAHOO Sport

Lukas Podolski scored two goals and set up another to inspire Cologne to a 4-1 win at Bayer Leverkusen in their Rhine derby in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Podolski set up Milivoje Novakovic in the 44th minute, before adding his own in the 47th and 54th. Simon Rolfes pulled one back in the 70th.

Leverkusen striker Andre Schuerrle was sent off in injury time, before Mato Jajalo completed the scoring, with Podolski again involved in the buildup.

Igor de Camargo scored against the run of play in the 66th for Borussia Moenchengladbach in a 1-0 win at bottom side Hamburger SV.

Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese was sent off in a 1-1 draw at Nuremberg, and Wolfsburg also had a keeper sent off in a 3-1 loss at Hoffenheim.

Hertha Berlin drew 2-2 with Augsburg in a game between the two promoted sides.

Kaiserslautern hosted Mainz later Saturday.

Podolski’s good work on the left created the opener for Cologne, when the 26-year-old hooked the ball forward for Sascha Riether, followed up to accept the return pass, brushed aside Oemer Toprak’s challenge, and cut the ball back inside for the unmarked Novakovic to tap in.

Podolski capitalized on a mistake by Stefan Reinartz to send Novakovic through in the 47th, and the Slovene returned the pass for Podolski to score with a difficult volley.

The Germany striker scored his third of the season when he again combined with Novakovic, before coolly firing in with his left foot.

Rolfes was in the right place to tap in the rebound after Michael Rensing saved from Hanno Balitsch, before Jajalo had the final say.

Hamburg has only one point from six games, and alarm bells are ringing after de Camargo rose highest to head in Juan Arango’s free kick.

Penalty appeals from the home side in the 59th—when Robert Tesche’s header was blocked by Filip Daems’ elbow—were waved away by the referee.

Hamburg goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobny denied Arango from close range in the 76th, but his counterpart Marc-Andre ter Stegen—who knocked out two teeth in a collision with his goalkeeping coach the day before—had little to do.

Bremen is provisionally top of the table for the first time since 2007.

Referee Jochen Drees sent off Wiese in the 17th minute, three minutes after the Bremen keeper pulled off a flying save to stop Markus Mendler’s free kick.

Wiese failed to clear the ball outside his penalty area, and was forced to pull Christian Eigler back with the Nuremberg striker through on goal.

Despite being a man down, Mehmet Ekici scored against his former side with Bremen’s first chance in the 24th. Claudio Pizarro played Ekici through to shoot past Stephan Alexander from the left for his first Bremen goal.

Philipp Wollscheid scored a deserved equalizer in the 62nd—once the rain-delayed second half finally got under way—when he rose highest to head in Markus Feulner’s corner.

In Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg goalkeeper Marwin Hitz should have stopped Ryan Babel’s deflected effort in the 20th, three minutes before Roberto Firmino capitalized on some comical Wolfsburg defending to add another.

Substitute Ashkan Dejagah pulled one back in the 67th, but Hitz earned a direct red in the 81st, apparently for something he said to the referee.

Felix Magath had used his three substitutes, forcing Makoto Hasebe to go in goal, and there was little the Japan midfielder could do to prevent Roberto Firmino from scoring his second in the 85th.

Another Japan midfielder, Hajime Hosogai, opened the scoring for Augsburg in the 20th at Berlin, where Christian Lell equalized 38 seconds into the second half.

Berlin striker Pierre-Michel Lasogga capitalized on Gibril Sankoh’s blunder to set up Tunay Torun in the 57th, but Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker equalized from close range in the 64th.