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German Bundesliga Roundup, Feb. 5

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Updated Feb 5, 2011 3:58 PM ET
Milivoje Novakovic scored twice as Cologne came from two goals down to beat Bayern Munich 3-2 at home in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
The Slovenian striker equalized in the 62nd minute and scored the winner in the 73rd, to cancel out first-half goals from Hamit Altintop and Mario Gomez for Bayern. Christian Clemens got Cologne's revival under way in the 55th.

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Bayern drops to fifth, 15 points behind leader Borussia Dortmund, overtaken by Mainz and Hannover in third and fourth respectively. Cologne remains 16th.
"They must be slowly laughing themsevles to death in Dortmund," said Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Bayer Leverkusen lost 1-0 at Nuremberg but remains second, 12 points adrift of Dortmund.
In Saturday's late game between the bottom sides, a late Timo Gebhart penalty gave Stuttgart a 3-2 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach to complete a memorable comeback.
Dante, a defender, and Igor de Camargo gave Moenchengladbach a 2-0 halftime lead, but Pavel Pogrebnyak scored in the 51st, and Martin Harnik scooped the ball over the goalkeeper for the equalizer five minutes later.
Gebhart scored from the penalty spot in the 87th, after Dante was adjudged to have brough Pogrebnyak down and sent off for a second yellow card.
Moenchengladbach remains bottom, six points from safety and three behind Stuttgart.
Elsewhere, Claudio Pizarro scored an injury time goal for Werder Bremen to earn a 1-1 draw at Mainz, while there were home wins for Hannover and Hoffenheim over Wolfsburg and Kaiserslautern respectively.
"The decisive factor was how we believed in ourselves in the second half," Cologne coach Frank Schaefer said. "We played with too much fear in the first."
Bayern should have been reduced to 10 men in the 19th minute, when Holger Badstuber, the last defender, cynically brought down Novakovic when the striker was through on goal.
The Bundesliga's youngest referee, Felix Zwayer, showed Badstuber a yellow card.
Gomez scored his 16th of the season when he deflected a cross from Thomas Mueller past former teammate Michael Rensing. The Cologne goalkeeper was unlucky to see the shot deflect in between his legs.
Bayern - playing without Arjen Robben due to a cold - had full control of the game, and it was just a matter of time before the second arrived.
It came in the 43rd when Hamit Altintop blasted the ball past Rensing into the far corner from a tight angle.
"We saw a very different Cologne in the second half," Lukas Podolski said. "The way we turned the game around with the fans behind us was simply sensational."

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Clemens scored when he ran onto a through ball from Christian Eichner and rounded goalkeeper Thomas Kraft to finish from a tight angle.
Novakovic's equalizer prompted Bayern coach Luis van Gaal to bring on Franck Ribery for his first Bundesliga action since Jan. 15th.
But Novakovic scored again when he held off the challenge of Badstuber and blasted it past Kraft to leave the goalkeeper shaking his head.
Clemens should have added another for Cologne late on, but he blasted the effort over.
"We made life difficult for ourselves in the second half," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said. "We simply made too many mistakes. We didn't perform again in the beginning of the second half. We've given away very important points. That's what's bitter, that's what hurts."
In the Lower Saxony derby, Steve McClaren's new-look Wolfsburg side had a bad start at Hannover when Sergio Pinto scored in the fourth minute. The midfielder let fly from 23 meters (yards) and Diego Benaglio somehow let it slip under his arms.
Diego crashed a penalty off the crossbar in the 80th, after he was brought down in the area by Emanuel Pogatetz. It was Wolfsburg's third penalty miss in a row, and Hannover held on to win 1-0.
Werder Bremen's Claudio Pizarro scored in the third minute of injury time, when he turned smartly in the area to volley past Mainz keeper Heinz Mueller.
Andre Schuerrle scored for Mainz in the 19th, and dedicated the goal to teammate Adam Szalai, ruled out for the rest of the season because of a right knee injury.
Christian Eigler scored the winner for Nuremberg over Bayer Leverkusen, before he was sent off late on for a second yellow card.
Gylfi-Thor Sigurdsson and Sebastian Rudy gave Hoffenheim a 2-0 halftime lead over Kaiserslautern, but the visitors equalized with two goals in as many minutes from Erwin Hoffer and Brazilian defender Rodnei in the 58th and 60th.
Vedad Ibisevic scored the winner for Hoffenheim in the 62nd to make it 3-2.

Heavy rain postpones Hamburg derby

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Updated Feb 5, 2011 3:55 PM ET
BERLIN (AP)

The Bundesliga derby between Hamburger SV and St. Pauli scheduled for Sunday was called off because of a waterlogged pitch.

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An inspection of Imtech Arena on Saturday found the pitch to be unplayable after two days of heavy rain in Hamburg and more forecast.
A date for the postponed game will be set by the German football league next week.
''It simply rained too much. There was nothing anyone could do,'' Hamburger SV spokesman Joern Wolf said.
Work to lay new grass at the stadium was completed on Friday, but the club said only the weather was responsible for the postponement of the 16th Bundesliga derby between the sides.
The game at the 57,000-seat stadium has been sold out for weeks, and public viewing points were set up around the city.
''We never imagined that a game would have to be called off now, when there's no snow,'' St. Pauli manager Christian Boenig said. ''Now I have to ring each player individually to tell them the news.

French Ligue One Roundup, Feb. 6

Updated Feb 6, 2011 2:17 PM ET
Lille missed the chance to move seven points clear at the top of the French league when it conceded a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw at Auxerre on Sunday.
Lille took the lead in the ninth minute when striker Moussa Sow got his league-leading 15th goal of the season with a brilliant bicycle kick from just inside the penalty area, but Poland defender Dariusz Dudka replied with just four minutes remaining.

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"It's two points lost. But we've come away empty-handed from here so many times in the past that it (feels like) a point gained," Lille coach Rudi Garcia said. "We know we're the team to beat because we're at the front, but we will have to learn from experiences like this."
Lille should have led by more late in the first half, but midfielder Eden Hazard chose to shoot from a narrow angle rather than passing to the unmarked Sow lurking inside the area.
Lille paid the price for that missed chance. Auxerre won a free kick near the left corner flag, and Anthony Le Tallec flicked it on perfectly for Dudka to slide the ball home at the far post.
The draw means Lille is five points ahead of Paris Saint-Germain and Rennes, who are second and third respectively.
Also, Moussa Sissoko scored both goals as Toulouse beat struggling Monaco 2-0 at home to climb up to seventh place.
Later Sunday, Lyon was playing at home against Bordeaux.