THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Schalke beat Bochum 3-0 on Sunday as coach Felix Magath’s new team joined his old one — Wolfsburg — atop the Bundesliga.
Magath coached Wolfsburg to its first Bundesliga title last season, then jumped ship to sign for Schalke, which has not won the championship for 51 years.
Wolfsburg and Schalke are the only two teams to have won both of their games in the new season and have six points and identical goal difference.
Schalke dominated Sunday’s match and 19-year-old Christoph Moritz, a new signing from second-division Alemannia Aachen who has been surprisingly promoted to the starting lineup by Magath, opened the scoring after 38 minutes.
Heiko Westermann doubled the lead in first-half injury time and Jefferson Farfan completed the victory in the 76th.
Earlier, Borussia Moenchengladbach’s new-look team beat Hertha Berlin 2-1 to record its first victory this season and move into fourth place.
Defender Roel Brouwers and striker Karim Matmour got the goals for Borussia, while Gojko Kacar scored his second in two games for Hertha and nearly added a late equalizer when his header struck the crossbar two minutes from the end.
Borussia was helped by the performances of its new signings, Argentine forward Raul Bobadilla and Venezuelan midfielder Juan Arango, who both hit the crossbar.
Brouwers opened the scoring in the 23rd minute after Hertha’s defense failed to clear a corner.
Hertha had a clear chance to level within seconds of the second half getting underway, but Borussia goalkeeper Christofer Heimeroth managed to get a hand onto a shot from Cicero.
Borussia doubled its lead in the 52nd minute, with 36-year-old Oliver Neuville providing a perfect cross for Algerian forward Matmour to score.
Hertha was back in the game just a minute later, though, when Kacar rose to head home a corner from Raffael, while teammate Artur Wichniarek later sent a diving header just wide.
At the other end, Hertha goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobny made several good saves to foil Borussia’s late efforts, while Kacar nearly scored a carbon-copy of his goal when he again met a corner from Raffael but the ball bounced off the bar after Heimeroth had misjudged the cross.
Borussia played without U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley, who is in quarantine after returning from national team duty and a 2-1 loss to Mexico. U.S. forward Landon Donovan was diagnosed with swine flu’ after that game.
On Saturday, Wolfsburg rallied with two goals in two minutes to win 3-1 at Cologne and reach six points from two games.
Striker Obafemi Martins, newly signed from Newcastle, secured victory in the 87th minute after coming on as a substitute. Cologne scored four minutes into the second half through Fabrice Ehret, only for Edin Dzeko to equalize in the 73rd and defender Pierre Wome to redirect a cross into his own net a minute later.
Bayern Munich remained without a win in the new season, coming from behind to earn a 1-1 draw at home against Werder Bremen.
Mario Gomez scored his first Bundesliga goal for Bayern in the 72nd minute to salvage the point after Mesut Oezil had shot Werder ahead after 39 minutes.
Hamburger SV scored three goals in the first 12 minutes in a 4-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund. In other matches, Eintracht Frankfurt drew 1-1 at home with promoted Nuremberg, Stuttgart beat promoted Freiburg 4-2, Hannover drew 1-1 at home with Mainz, another promoted team, and Bayer Leverkusen edged Hoffenheim 1-0.