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| Bayern sting Schalke 2-0 to stay top, Dortmund tumble Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:54 AM PDT  Bayern Munich's Thomas Mueller (L) scores a goal against Schalke 04 during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match in Gelsenkirchen September 22, 2012. Bayern won the match 2-0. – Reuters pic Visitors Bayern, fresh from their opening 2-1 Champions League win over Valencia on Wednesday, took the lead in the 55th minute when in-form Toni Kroos – set up by Thomas Mueller – curled a low shot from 14 metres past keeper Lars Unnerstall. Mueller then scored the second goal himself, threading the ball through the legs of one defender on the right and slipping a shot between two others for his fourth goal of the season to silence the 61,000 crowd at the Auf Schalke Arena. Bayern, who were without injured Franck Ribery, are on 12 points along with promoted Eintracht Frankfurt who beat Nuremberg 2-1 yesterday. Champions Dortmund are five points behind after Hamburg battled to victory with two goals from South Korea's Son Heung-min. Dortmund are on seven points like fellow Champions League competitors Schalke while Hamburg, who hold the record for the longest unbeaten run of 36 league games from 1983, managed to lift themselves off the bottom after three straight defeats. – Reuters |
| Hamilton storms to pole position in Singapore Posted: 22 Sep 2012 07:12 AM PDT  McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates after winning the pole position in the qualifying session of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore September 22, 2012. – Reuters pic SINGAPORE, Sept 22 – McLaren's Lewis Hamilton continued his surge in the second half of the season by nailing down pole position for the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix with a stirring drive around the Marina Bay Street Circuit today. The Briton has won two of the last three races to close within 37 points of championship leader Fernando Alonso with seven rounds remaining, and will be confident of converting McLaren's fourth consecutive pole into a fourth successive team victory. Hamilton won this race in 2009 and became the first man to secure pole here twice with a lap of 1 minute 46.362 seconds, almost half a second ahead of Williams' Pastor Maldonado, who drove brilliantly to claim a front row spot. World champion Sebastian Vettel had dominated the three practice sessions prior to qualifying but his Red Bull could only finish third in 1:46.905, narrowly ahead of Hamilton's McLaren team mate Jenson Button. Alonso clocked the fifth fastest time but the Spaniard has made a habit of picking up big points in his Ferrari despite qualifying down the grid and will be looking for a similar performance tomorrow at a circuit where he has won twice. The top 10 was rounded out by Force India's Paul di Resta, Red Bull's Mark Webber, Romain Grosjean in a Lotus, and the Mercedes duo of Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg, who both opted against setting timed laps in the final qualifying run. – Reuters |
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