Bundesliga: Hamburg beat Mainz; Eintracht Frankfurt beat Werder Bremen
Sunday 7 December 2014 19:08, UK
Hamburg moved out of the Bundesliga's bottom three with a comfortable 2-1 win over a Mainz side who have now gone six games without a win.
Cleber and Rafael van der Vaart scored a goal in each half, but it could have been more for Josef Zinnbauer's dominant Red Shorts, who reduced the deficit on their opponents to just a single point.
Shinji Okazaki grabbed a late consolation for Mainz, but there was no more than that in the game for Kasper Hjulmand's men.
Victory - Hamburg's third in a row at home - lifts them back above Borussia Dortmund and two points clear of the relegation zone.
In the day's other game, Thomas Schaaf picked up a bittersweet Bundesliga victory over his former club Werder Bremen as Eintracht Frankfurt triumphed 5-2 at the Waldstadion.
Alexander Meier scored twice and Haris Seferovic, Stefan Aigner and Marc Stendera were also on target for the Eagles, who climbed to seventh in the table, leaving Bremen, for whom Theodor Gebre Selassie and Luca Caldirola scored, inside the bottom three.
