BERLIN -- Bayern Munich left it late to grind out a 2-0 win in Mainz on Saturday and move one victory away from the Bundesliga title.
Bruno Caboclo Jersey . Bastian Schweinsteiger broke the deadlock in the 82nd minute and substitute Mario Goetze added another
goal four minutes later to secure Bayerns league-record 18th consecutive win and
stretch its unbeaten run to 51 games -- also a record. Second-place Borussia
Dortmund won 3-0 at Hannover but remains 23 points behind Bayern with eight
games remaining. "We dont really care when were champions," said Schweinsteiger,
whose side can secure the quickest title in 51 years of the Bundesliga by
winning at Hertha Berlin on Tuesday, regardless of Dortmunds result against
Schalke in the Ruhr derby the same evening. "Its really great that we can be
champions in Berlin, where it all began for me," Bayern defender Jerome Boateng
said. "We laid the groundwork today." Schalke consolidated third with a 3-1 win
over bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig. Stuttgart beat 10-man Hamburger SV 1-0
to move above the visiting side and climb provisionally out of the relegation
zone. It was the home sides first win in two games under new coach Huub Stevens.
Wolfsburg also ended with 10 men in a 1-1 draw with Augsburg. Kevin de Bruyne
was sent off in injury time with his second yellow card for arguing the first.
Borussia Moenchengladbach was hosting Hertha Berlin later. Mainz suffered its
first defeat in six games but the home side frustrated Bayern for long periods
and might have scored after the break, when Eric Maxim Choupo-Motings effort
crashed back off the crossbar with Manuel Neuer beaten. Mainz goalkeeper Loris
Karius was busier, blocking Arjen Robbens effort in the fourth minute and
producing good saves to deny Mario Mandzukic and Franck Ribery in the second
half. Claudio Pizarro came on for Mandzukic in the 81st and made an immediate
impact, playing the ball out left to Xherdan Shaqiri, who crossed for
Schweinsteiger to head home from five meters. Then Ribery capitalized on a
botched clearance to set up Goetze for a clinical finish. "Its not easy for us
to play outstanding games all the time with a 23-point lead," said Bayern coach
Pep Guardiola, whose side has won 24 of 26 games and drawn the other two. Sky
television reported at halftime that Uli Hoeness was not in the stadium. The
former Bayern president is expected to soon begin his 3 1/2 year prison term for
tax evasion. Dortmund failed to impress in Hannover, where Andre Hoffmann hit
the post for the home side in the 18th. Mats Hummels scored two minutes before
the interval, prodding the ball home from close range after Sokratis headed it
on. Robert Lewandowski made it 2-0 in the 52nd, cutting in from the left wing,
gliding past four Hannover defenders before shooting inside the left post from a
central position, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan set up substitute Marco Reus for a
flattering score in injury time. "Everything went in the right direction after
the second goal but I could only breathe easily after the third," Dortmund coach
Juergen Klopp said. In Gelsenkirchen, Leon Goretzka was allowed plenty of time
and space to fire Schalke into a 17th-minute lead from 23 metres. Klaas Jan
Huntelaar made it 2-0 with a deflected free kick in the 66th, before Benjamin
Kessel pulled one back with another deflected shot in the 81st. Adam Szalai
settled Schalkes nerves in injury time. Hamburgs hopes took a blow when Hakan
Calhanoglu was sent off with his second yellow card for a tactical foul in the
53rd. Ibrahima Traore capitalized on a mistake from Hamburg captain Heiko
Westermann to set up Alexandru Maxim to score in the 69th. Stevens had
introduced the Romanian midfielder six minutes before. "It was a difficult game
in a difficult situation," said Maxim, whose goal ended a 10-game winless
streak. Second-to-last Nuremberg can overtake both Hamburg and Stuttgart by
beating Eintracht Frankfurt at home on Sunday. Wolfsburg moved provisionally
fifth thanks to Ivica Olics 81st-minute equalizer. Tobias Werner fired Augsburg
ahead in the 43rd, when he cut inside two defenders before unleashing inside the
far post.
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Nguyen was speaking to reporters after Saturdays victory at the Canadian figure
skating championships when three-time world champion Patrick Chan popped over
briefly to shake Nguyens hand. That was the best buddy, Chan said. Good job.
Chan has dominated mens singles skating for years, winning the past seven
national titles, but Saturday night the 16-year-old Nguyen announced his arrival
with a virtually flawless performance, clobbering the rest of the field by more
than 30 points. I think its a huge honour that people say that The next Patrick
Chan, Nguyen said. But I dont know if I would call myself that anymore, because
were at the same level now, right? Im his competitor. The Toronto skater
captured his first senior mens title to complete a sweep of national crowns — he
previously won juvenile, pre-novice, novice and junior titles. I was dreaming of
this since I was eight years old, after I won the juvenile title, Nguyen said.
And its really cool because I won every national title starting from juvenile up
to senior, and I dont know if anyone has ever done that before. Nguyen opened
with a beautiful quad Salchow and then reeled off eight triple jumps to score
256.88 overall points, beating a field that was missing Chan. The three-time
world champion is taking the season off to contemplate his future. Jeremy Ten of
Vancouver claimed silver with 222.58, edging Liam Firus of North Vancouver by a
mere 0.18 of a point. Earlier, Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., captured
her first senior womens title and secured her spot on the world team. The
champpionships determine the team for the world championships in March in
Shanghai.
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pairs. Nguyen was 12th at last years world championships and said having some
experience under his belt will help. Oh yeah. But to be honest, I feel like
going to nationals here was a lot more pressure than for worlds, he said. So Im
really excited and Im not really nervous at all going into worlds. Ten,
meanwhile, was overwhelmed by emotion when his scores were shown on the screen.
He called this a bonus season, only deciding in June that he would compete one
last year and then call it quits on a career that has been marred by injuries
and disappointment. My whole world just went like. . . I thought I had misheard
it, and then I saw the screen, I just dropped everything. I think I threw my
water bottle at one point, and I forgot I was on TV, and then I completely lost
all bodily function, Ten said, laughing. At least I didnt pee myself, that was
good. The 17-year-old Daleman had a near-flawless performance to win gold with
186.02 points and beat a field that was missing defending champion Kaetlyn
Osmond. Daleman landed five triple jumps in her skate to En Aranjuez Con Tu
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afterwards. Veronik Mallet of Sept-Iles, Que., was third with 172.43. Osmond is
taking this season off to recover from a broken fibula suffered last fall.
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