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| Borussia Dortmund piled the pressure on its Bundesliga title rivals Friday with a hard-fought 2-0 win at Nuremberg to move three points clear ahead of the rest of the weekend's games. Sebastian Kehl fired the defending champion ahead in the 48th minute after Moritz Leitner split the Nuremberg defense and Lukasz Piszczek pulled the ball back for the Dortmund captain to slot into the corner. |
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| Champions Borussia Dortmund
opened a three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga after a
2-0 win at Nuremberg on Friday stretched their unbeaten run to
14 consecutive league games.
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| Borussia Dortmund's current
form can take them all the way to a second successive Bundesliga
title, forward Shinji Kagawa said as the champions eye top spot
when they travel to face Nuremberg on Friday.
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| Hannover defender Emanuel Pogatetz has been banned for three matches over an incident in last Friday's 1-0 home win over Nuremberg. The German football federation says Pogatetz intentionally punched Nuremberg's Philipp Wollscheid. The referee missed the incident, but the federation used video replays to ban the Austrian. |
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| Nuremberg central defender Per Nilsson is expected to be out for four weeks after hurting his left knee in a friendly shortly after coming back from an Achilles tendon operation. The Swedish defender pulled a ligament in his knee during a friendly on Monday against second-division side Karlsruhe. Nilsson began the brief comeback only two weeks ago. |
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| Hannover ended its winless Bundesliga run of eight matches by beating Nuremberg 1-0 on Friday from Mohammed Abdellaoue's first-half goal. The Norway striker struck after getting on the end of Lars Stindl's cross from the right while in between two Nuremberg defenders to score from five meters in the 18th minute. |
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| Werder Bremen says defender Andreas Wolf is leaving the club to join French second-division club Monaco. Wolf spent only half a season in Bremen after arriving from Nuremberg and still had another 1 1/2 years on his contract. Bremen says the defender signed a 3 1/2 year contract in Monaco. No details of the deal were given. |
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| American defender Omar Gonzalez tore a knee ligament during his first practice with Nuremberg Germany's Bundesliga and is returning to Los Angeles. Nuremberg says Gonzalez tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in a tackle in the club's training camp in Antalya, on the Turkish coast. |
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| Bundesliga club Nuremberg has signed Los Angeles Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez on loan during the MLS offseason. Nuremberg says on its website that Gonzalez trained with the club for the first time Thursday after joining the German club for its training camp in Turkey, where it is practicing during the Bundesliga's winter break. |
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| The plight of Blackburn and manager Steve Kean became even more desperate Tuesday as Bolton scored twice in the first half hour for a 2-1 win that lifted it off the bottom of the Premier League standings and left its opponent there in its place. Already disappointed with Kean's yearlong tenure in charge of the club, Blackburn fans jeered their manager for almost the entire game against their... |
