[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] Landon Donovan was a 77th-minute sub for Bayern Munich, which fell 1-0 at Hamburg SV. Michael Bradley played the full 90 for Borussia Moenchengladbach as his team suffered its league-high 13th loss of the season.
Donovan, who had played seven games for Bayer Leverkusen in 2001, is in the middle of short loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy. He replaced Bastien Schweinsteiger in the Hamburg game, which drew a 57,000 crowd at Hamburg’s WM-Arena. The home team got the deciding goal with a 44th minute header from Mladen Petric. On Tuesday, Donovan, who scored four goals in five friendly games with Bayern over the winter break, was 67th-minute sub in Bayern’s 5-1 win over VfB Stuttgart in the round of 16 of the German Cup . The score of that game was 5-0 win Donovan entered.
Moenchengladbach fell, 2-0, to VfB Stuttgart, for which Mexican outside back Ricardo Osorio played 90 minutes. The loss mires Gladbach in last place, two points deep in the relegation zone.
The injured Steve Cherundolo sat out as Hannover 96 downed Schalke 04, 1-0.
Former U.S. U-17 international Neven Subotic went the distance on Borussia Dortmund’s backline in a 1-1 tie with Bayer Leverkusen.