Also on Saturday, Bayern Munich beat bottom team Cottbus 4-1, keeping alive their hopes of leading the championship into the winter break.

In face of 69,000 audience at the Allianz Arena, Ervin Skela gave Cottbus an unexpected lead after 25 minutes, but Bayern dictated play from the start.

French international Franck Ribery, Martin Demichelis, MiroslavKlose and Italian striker Luca Toni scored four goals to seal the sweep victory.

With 28 points in hand, Bayern remain third in the Bundesliga standings on 28 points from 14 games, but are now just three points off leaders Hoffenheim but level on points with second-placed Leverkusen, which lost to Bielefeld 1-2 on Saturday.

Turkish star Halil Altinop re-discovered his nose for goal as Schalke 04 ended their downward spiral as they swept Moenchengladbach 3-1

In other matches, Wolfsburg beat Stuttgart 4-1, Frankfurt thrashed Hannover 4-0 and Bochum lost to Berlin 2-3. Enditem

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