
AP, HAMBURG
Substitute Paolo Guerrero scored two goals Sunday to help Hamburger SV snap a 14-match winless streak with a 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.
Hamburg coach Thomas Doll and his players hugged each other after the Peruvian put in an 86th-minute cross to end the team’s drought in the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup.
“Sometime that had to end, a series like that. The important thing is you have to believe in yourself,” Doll said. “We played our best match of the year.”
Guerrero leveled at 1-1 in the 71st minute when he finished a breakaway by tapping in.
It was Guerrero’s first goal for Hamburg and turned around a match in which the team seemed set to self-destruct again as forwards missed wide-open chances and Juan Pablo Sorin had a headed goal ruled out for offsides.
Leverkusen’s Andriy Voronin tapped in for a 1-0 lead in the 40th, helped by a Hamburg blunder. Defender Timothy Atouba collided with Sasha Kirschstein on a cross, knocking the ball out of the goalkeeper’s hands.
Hamburg was helped by the return of several injured players, including captain Rafael van der Vaart, who had been out for two months. The win moved the team from 17th to 13th place.
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Teams |
Pts |
GD | |
| 1 | Perspolis Tehran* | 59 |
+21 |
| 2 | Sepahan Esfahan ** | 58 |
+15 |
| 3 | Saba Battery Tehran | 52 |
+4 |
| 4 | Abu Moslem Khorasan | 50 |
0 |
| 5 | Pas Hamedan | 49 |
+8 |
| 6 | Zob Ahan Esfahan | 48 |
+7 |
| 7 | Bargh Shiraz | 47 |
-4 |
| 8 | Esteghlal Ahvaz | 46 |
+10 |
| 9 | Paykan Tehran | 46 |
-1 |
| 10 | Mes Kerman | 45 |
+2 |
| 11 | Saipa Karaj | 45 |
-2 |
| 12 | Rah Ahan Tehran | 44 |
+5 |
| 13 | Esteghlal Tehran | 43 |
0 |
| 14 | Fajr Sepasi Shiraz | 42 |
-4
|
| 15 | Pegah Gilan | 38 |
-9 |
| 16 | Malavan Bandar Anzali | 36 |
-9 |
| 17 | Sanat Naft Abadan | 35 |
-9 |
| 18 | Shirin Faraz Kermanshah | 21 |
-31 |
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