Winners:
DaMARCUS BEASLEY scored his sixth league goal in PSV EINDHOVEN's 4-1 win over NEC Nijmegen with a low 14-yard shot after entering the game in the 27th minute. Eindhoven is in first-place, four points ahead of second-place AZ.
FEYENOORD and American defender CORY GIBBS celebrated a 2-0 win over Utrecht. Feyenoord is in fourth place.
A 4-2 win over Nuremberg gave BAYER LEVERKUSEN its fourth win in five games since the winter break, but Landon Donovan, who got his first start last week, was back on the bench until the 85th minute because of Robson Ponte's return from suspension.
Losers:
KASEY KELLER gave up a hat trick to Brazilian Ailton in BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH's 3-1 loss to Schalke 04.Gladbach is five points above the relegation zone.
A 0-0 tie with Arminia Bielefeld extended MAINZ 04's winless streak to eight games and leaves it one spot and four points above the relegation zone. American forward CONOR CASEY, who has made his 18 appearances this season and has scored once, escaped with a yellow card, his fourth of season, for a lethal flying tackle on Fatmir Vata.
American defender STEVE CHERUNDOLO received his fourth yellow card of the season as HANNOVER 96 fell, 4-1, to defending champion Werder Bremen. Hannover, in ninth place, has earned just four points in its last six games.
CARLOS BOCANEGRA played the full 90 and BRIAN McBRIDE came on as an 81st minute sub for FULHAM as it fell, 1-0, to Bolton in the English FA Cup fifth round.