After victories on Saturday, Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen remain level on points at the top of the German Bundesliga.

Meanwhile Bayern Munich stepped into form ahead of the Champions League group stages with a crushing win.

With 13 points from five matches, a 3-1 win away to Stuttgart in the late match put Hamburg on top of goal difference while Bayern moved up to fourth—five points adrift of the leaders—with a 5-1 demolition of Borussia Dortmund.

After half an hour against the run of play with a 20-yard effort that caught veteran goalkeeper Jens Lehmann too far off his line, Mladen Petric bounced back from Croatia’s humiliating 5-1 World Cup qualifying defeat by England to put Hamburg ahead.

After receiving a pass from David Jarolim outside the penalty area, Dutchman Eljero Elia, who late goal ended Scotland’s hopes of reaching the World Cup finals, made it 2-0 in the 58th minute, turning and firing a shot into the bottom right-hand corner of the net.

Petric had an effort ruled out for a foul on Mathieu Delpierre before Stuttgart pulled one back in the 62nd minute when Russian striker Pavel Pogrebnyak chipped over keeper Frank Rost after being set free by Christian Trasch.

(via CNN)