Steve Cherundolo scored his first goal of the season for Hannover 96 in a 1-0 win at newly promoted Energie Cottbus. Hannover has climbed from last place to 12th. The headed goal by the 5-foot-6 right back was the 27-year-old's fourth in 131 Bundesliga games. Cherundolo was also Kicker Magazine's man of the game.
Benny Feilhaber made his sixth start and seventh appearance of the season for Hamburg SV, but HSV fell, 2-1, to Bochum and is 17th place of the 18-team league, four points deep in the relegation zone.
Also in the relegation zone is 16th place Borussia Monechengladbach, for whom keeper Kasey Keller returned to action from a shoulder injury and helped Gladbach to a 1-1 tie with fourth-place Bayern Munich.
In the German Second Division, Munich 1860 with defender Gregg Berhalter suffered an embarrassing 5-1 defeat to Unterhachingen and slipped to sixth place, four points out of the promotion zone.
In England, goalkeeper Brad Friedel helped Blackburn break a six-game winless streak. Rovers won, 2-0, against Fulham, for which Brian McBride entered as a 69th minute sub. Everton keeper Tim Howard denied several efforts from West Ham's Argentine attacker Carlos Tevez and Co., and in a 2-0 win. West Ham's American defender Jonathan Spector played 84 minutes.
Reading, with Marcus Hahnemann in goal but Bobby Convey still out injured, moved into sixth place with a 1-0 win over Bolton.
In Belgium, Standard Liege moved into fourth place with a 3-0 win over Westerlo as Oguchi Onyewu went the full 90.
Manchester City (Claudio Reyna and DaMarcus Beasley) face Watford (Jay DeMerit) on Monday at 3 pm ET (live on Fox Soccer Channel and Fox en Espanol).