Khedira helps Stuttgart steal point against Bayern
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12/13/2008 - Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sami Khedira scored twice, including the tying goal in the 90th minute, and Stuttgart tied 10-man Bayern Munich 2-2 in the German Bundesliga on Saturday.
Bayern, which got goals from Tim Borowski and Luca Toni, still moved into first place with Hoffenheim idle but wasted a chance to put more pressure on the new Bundesliga club.
Hoffenheim hosts Schalke on Sunday needing just a tie to lead the league at the winter break.
Defending league champion Bayern was in great shape to take all three points at Mercedes-Benz Arena, but defender Massimo Oddo was red carded in the 85th. That helped Khedira add his second goal in the dying seconds of a half - he also had a goal on the last play of the first half.
Stuttgart slipped one spot to 10th, but is still just 10 points behind Bayern. The top five clubs - Bayern, Hoffenheim, Hertha Berlin, Hamburg and Leverkusen - are separated by just three points.
Khedira handed Stuttgart the lead off a corner in the last seconds of the first half, running onto a flicked on header from Matthieu Delpierre to head the ball into the left side past a diving Bayern goalie Michael Rensing.
Borowski, starting in place of injured French star Franck Ribery, tied the game in the 48th minute with a tap-in goal from close range. Bayern played a corner kick short and got the ball to Bastian Schweinsteiger on the top right edge of the area.
Schweinsteiger unleashed a shot that forced Jens Lehmann to make a diving save, but he gave up a rebound and Borowski picked up the easy goal for his fifth of the season.
Borowski set up the tying goal in the 66th, delivering a cross from the left to pick out Toni on the right. Toni didn't get a great touch on the ball, but his shot bounced in front of Lehmann and hoped over the diving goalie. Toni's goal was his ninth of the season.
Bayern was cruising toward the win until Oddo got a red card in the 85th minute for trying to win the ball with his studs inches from the face of Stuttgart's Christian Trasch.
Stuttgart pushed everyone forward in the final minutes, including Lehmann, but Khedira was the hero. He ran onto to a short punched corner from Rensing to hit a rocket just under the crossbar, a nearly unstoppable tying goal, in the 90th.
Bayern still extended its unbeaten streak to 16 straight games, including five Champions League games, but has to watch the scoreboard Sunday to see if it can hold onto the lead for the winter break.
Hertha Berlin quietly continued to take care of business and remain with close range of the top two clubs, getting three late goals to defeat Karlsruhe 4-0.
Maximilian Nicu opened the scoring for Hertha in the eighth minute, and Valeri Domovchiyski (74th), Fabian Lustenberger (86th) and Raffael (88th) capped the win to pull Hertha within two points of the top spot.
Hamburg also moved with two points of Bayern, getting a goal from Mladen Petric in the 59th minute to edge Eintracht 1-0.
Bayer Leverkusen's slide down the standings continued when Jiayi Shao scored in the 90th minute to give Energie a 1-1 draw. Bayer, which led the league a few weeks ago, is fifth.
Werder Bremen got a goal from Per Mertesacker and an own goal to edge Wolfsburg 2-1 to move up seventh, one spot ahead of Wolfsburg.
Nine-man Koln got goals from Kevin McKenna and Manasseh Ishiaku to edge Bochum 2-1 and Artur Wichniarek scored in the 59th and Arminia Bielefeld earned a 1-1 tie with Hannover to wrap up Saturday's matches.
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