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Schalke stay in touch with Wolfsburg win
Schalke stay in touch with Wolfsburg win
FC Schalke 04 returned to winning ways in emphatic fashion by dispatching VfL Wolfsburg 4-0 to haul themselves back within five points of leaders Borussia Dortmund.
Having taken one point from their last two Bundesliga outings, Huub Stevens' side needed a victory to revive their title bid ahead of next Sunday's game against third-placed FC Bayern München. Raúl González opened the scoring for the fourth-placed hosts against Wolfsburg and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar struck twice either side of a Joel Matip effort to lift himself level with Bayern's Mario Gomez atop the division's scoring charts on 18 goals apiece.
In Sunday's other match, Hannover 96 downed VfB Stuttgart 4-2. Karim Haggui, Mame Diouf, Christian Pander and Lars Stindl gave the home side a healthy advantage before Stuttgart reduced the deficit late on through Martin Harnik and Shinji Okazaki.
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Results
German Bundesliga 2011/12
| Home | Away | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated: 22/02/2012 15:47 CET | |||||
19/02/2012 | |||||
| Hannover |  | 4-2 |  | Stuttgart | |
| Venue: Hannover | |||||
19/02/2012 | |||||
| Schalke |  | 4-0 |  | Wolfsburg | |
Raúl González 10, Huntelaar 15, 72, Matip 49 | |||||
| Venue: Gelsenkirchen | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Freiburg |  | 0-0 |  | Bayern | |
| Venue: Freiburg | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Hamburg |  | 1-3 |  | Bremen | |
Petrić 76 | Marin 9, Trybull 45, Arnautović 86 | ||||
| Venue: Hamburg | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Leverkusen |  | 4-1 |  | Augsburg | |
Koo 50 | |||||
| Venue: Leverkusen | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Hertha |  | 0-1 |  | Dortmund | |
Grosskreutz 66 | |||||
| Venue: Berlin | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Kaiserslautern |  | 1-2 |  | Mönchengladbach | |
Jessen 63 | |||||
| Venue: Kaiserslautern | |||||
18/02/2012 | |||||
| Nürnberg |  | 2-1 |  | Köln | |
Novakovič 66 | |||||
| Venue: Nürnberg | |||||
17/02/2012 | |||||
| Hoffenheim |  | 1-1 |  | Mainz | |
Noveski 9 (o.g.) | Zidan 29 | ||||
| Venue: Sinsheim | |||||
Standings
German Bundesliga 2011/12
| Clubs | P | Pts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Borussia Dortmund | 22 | 49 | |
| 2 |  | VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach | 22 | 46 | |
| 3 |  | FC Bayern München | 22 | 45 | |
| 4 | | FC Schalke 04 | 22 | 44 | |
| 5 | | SV Werder Bremen | 22 | 36 | |
| 6 | | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 22 | 34 | |
| 7 | | Hannover 96 | 22 | 34 | |
| 8 | | VfL Wolfsburg | 22 | 27 | |
| 9 | | VfB Stuttgart | 22 | 26 | |
| 10 | | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 22 | 26 | |
| 11 | | Hamburger SV | 22 | 26 | |
| 12 | | 1. FC Nürnberg | 22 | 25 | |
| 13 | | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | 22 | 24 | |
| 14 | | 1. FC Köln | 22 | 24 | |
| 15 | | Hertha BSC Berlin | 22 | 20 | |
| 16 | | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 22 | 18 | |
| 17 | | FC Augsburg | 22 | 18 | |
| 18 | | SC Freiburg | 22 | 18 |
Related information
- Raúl González
- Schalke - Germany
- Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
- Schalke - Germany
- Joel Matip
- Schalke - Germany
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