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BERLIN — Luiz Gustavo’s injury-time winner earned Bayern Munich a 1-0 win at Wolfsburg on Saturday, while defending champion Borussia Dortmund was beaten 1-0 at Hoffenheim.
Franck Ribery cut the ball back for Brazilian midfielder Luiz Gustavo to shoot from outside the penalty area, Diego Benaglio getting his hands to the ball but failing to keep it out.
"To score so late in the game — in injury time even — was lucky," Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. "After the (opening) defeat against Moenchengladbach, it was incredibly important to score here."
Patrick Helmes had a goal ruled out in the 39th, when television replays showed the Wolfsburg striker was onside.
"Of course it’s bitter when you’re not awarded a regular goal due to such a decision," Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath said.
Sejad Salihovic’s free kick in the 9th was enough for Hoffenheim to beat Dortmund.
"Hoffenheim fought for the win with great passion, but we could have won the game," Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp said. "Over 40 or 50 minutes we showed a great game and made a number of goal chances. The defeat feels bad."
In the late game, Germany striker Cacau marked his 250th Bundesliga game with a 71st minute equalizer for Stuttgart in a 1-1 draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach, which had Roel Brouwers sent off for a second yellow card with 10 minutes remaining.
Filip Daems gave Borussia the lead with a penalty in the 67th, after Marco Reus got the benefit of a debatable decision when he was shouldered off the ball by William Kvist.
Australian Mathew Leckie made his Bundesliga debut in the 77th, showing great pace to give Borussia hope of scoring a late winner.
Elsewhere, Schalke beat Cologne 5-1, Hamburger SV drew 2-2 with Hertha Berlin, Nuremberg lost 2-1 at home to Hannover, and Mainz won 2-1 in Freiburg.
Mainz and Hannover lead the table with maximum points after two games.
Wolfsburg will feel hard done by after making the better start and frustrating Bayern for long periods.
Ribery’s petulant swipe at Mario Mandzukic betrayed Bayern’s tension — it had never started a Bundesliga campaign with two losses — and it took some time for the visiting side to settle.
Despite seeing more of the ball, however, Jupp Heynckes’ side looked short of ideas and failed to really trouble Benaglio in the first half.
Mario Gomez tried his luck from distance in the 30th, before a Helmes effort was blocked by Jerome Boateng at the other end.
Helmes’ disallowed goal left Magath fuming on the sideline, before the game sparked to life.
Toni Kroos was booked for diving in the penalty area a minute later, and Benaglio blocked a Gomez effort.
Bastian Schweinsteiger should have scored after the interval, shooting a yard over from a promising position, and Bayern improved in the second half.
Heynckes introduced Takashi Usami for the Japanese midfielder’s Bundesliga debut in the 69th, but the final word fell to a Brazilian.
"We were a bit lucky in the last couple of minutes, but I do think we saw a different Bayern compared to last week," Ribery said. "We were more aggressive and we went for it."
All eyes were on Dortmund’s midfielder Mario Goetze to continue his good form at Hoffenheim, but the 19-year-old was faced with three players anytime he received the ball.
Salihovic settled the issue when his perfectly struck effort from the right of the penalty area gave Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller no chance.
Off-season signing Ivan Perisic hit the crossbar for Dortmund in the 63rd, when Felipe Santana was too surprised to react for the rebound.
"We invested a hell of a lot as a team. That was more important than the three points," Hoffenfeim’s new coach Holger Stanislawski said after his first win in 14 games, and his first ever over Dortmund.
The bus carrying Schalke’s players was delayed by traffic on the way to the Veltins-Arena, leading to a delay in kickoff.
Cologne’s Lukas Podolski opened the scoring in the 12th when he rounded off an incisive counterattack, and Schalke was fortunate to equalize before halftime when Kevin McKenna was adjudged to have handled the ball in the penalty area.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos’ header hit the Canadian defender’s arm from short range, and Klaas Jan Huntelaar converted the resultant spot kick in the 42nd.
Huntelaar rose highest to meet new signing Marco Hoeger’s cross in the 47th, and Hoeger capitalized on some sloppy Cologne defending to set Lewis Holtby up for another a minute later.
Raul Gonzalez made it 4-1 with his trademark chip over the helpless Michael Rensing in the 59th, before Huntelaar completed his hat trick in the 84th.
"We were the better team in the first half," said Cologne’s under pressure new coach Stale Solbakken. "The equalizer was unlucky because it didn’t look like a penalty to me."
In Nuremberg, Mohammed Abdellaoue scored from close range for Hannover in the 16th, before earning a penalty for Konstantin Rausch to convert in the 27th.
American international Timothy Chandler provided the cross for Tomas Pekhart to score a consolation in the 56th.