German Football Results.
Results from the 15th round of the Bundesliga, the German first-division football league (home teams listed first):
Friday’s Game
Hertha Berlin 2, FC Cologne 1
Saturday’s Games
Werder Bremen vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
Bayer Leverkusen vs. Bayern Munich
Hannover vs. Karlsruher SC
Borussia Moenchengladbach vs. Energie Cottbus
Hoffenheim vs. Arminia Bielefeld
Sunday’s Games
Stuttgart vs. Schalke
VfL Bochum vs. Hamburger SV
Borussia Dortmund vs. Wolfsburg.
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Bayern to miss three players at Leverkusen.
Bayern Munich will be without captain Mark van Bommel, central defender Martin Demichelis and backup striker Lukas Podolski in Saturday’s Bundesliga match at Bayer Leverkusen.
If Bayern wins, it will move past Leverkusen into second place and closer to its goal of being on top ahead of the winter break. First-placed Hoffenheim - which visits Bayern Dec. 5 - is three points ahead and has a better goal difference with three games to go before the break.
Van Bommel has the flu, Demichelis a calf injury and Podolski a back problem. Podolski, unhappy with his role as reserve, wants to leave the club during the January transfer period.
“His back hurts, it’s also affecting his knee,” coach Juergen Klinsmann said Friday.
Bayern is undefeated in the last two months and is coming off a 3-0 win over Steaua Bucharest that guaranteed Klinsmann’s team a place in the knockout stage of the Champions League.
