Hamburg 3 points clear

BERLIN: Hamburg's Croatia international Mladen Petric scored a last-minute winner in a 2-1 victory at Energie Cottbus on Sunday to move the club three points clear at the top of the German league table.

Hamburg, a low-profile club with an impressive attack, having scored 14 goals in their seven matches to date, thanked Petric's intervention for their fifth win of the season.

Hamburg had taken the lead early in the second half when Paolo Guerrero turned his marker on the right of the area and sent in a skidding shot that Gerhard Tremmel could only turn into the path of Ivica Olic, who gratefully tapped in.