Bayern Munich stunned at home

Hamburg -- Bayern Munich lost valuable ground in the Bundesliga as they were stunned 0-1 at home by Hanover 96.

The defeat was made even more painful as their main rivals Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart all won their respective matches.

In Munich, Szabolcs Huszti scored the only goal of the game two minutes from the break after Bayern's Argentine defender Martin Demichelis lost the ball near the corner flag.

Jiri Stajner played the ball across the area to Huszti and the Hungarian gave Oliver Kahn no chance with a well-taken goal.

The defeat sees Bayern, who have 17 points, fall back to fourth in the table - six points behind Werder Bremen, while Hanover move from bottom of the table to 15th.

Troubled Schalke, where infighting has again grabbed most of the recent headlines, put all of that aside with a convincing 2-0 victory against Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Ze Antonio opened the scoring for the visitors with an own goal in the 11th minute before Gustavo Varela added a second on the half hour.

The victory for Schalke helped them to move to third spot in the points table with 20 points, three behind Werder Bremen, who won 2-1 at Nuremberg Tuesday. VfB Stuttgart, who also defeated SV Hamburg 2-0 Tuesday, are second with 21 points.

Hertha Berlin moved past Bayern with a 2-2 draw against Arminia Bielefeld. Bielefeld took the lead in the 28th minute through South African international Sibusiso Zuma, who curled the ball into the Berlin goal after his marker had stopped playing expecting an offside decision.

In other matches Wednesday a ten-man Bayer Leverkusen won 3-1 against VfL Bochum, with goals by Sergej Barbarez, Andrey Voronin and Tranquillo Barnetta.

Former German international Paul Freier was sent off for a second bookable offence in the second half after Ivo Ilicevic had pulled one back for Bochum.

Japanese international Naohiro Takahara gave Eintracht Frankfurt a 1-0 victory at Energie Cottbus.