Football
Hamburg climb to eighth as two long-range strikes sink ten-man Gladbach
Hamburg beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 at the Volksparkstadion to open matchday 9, ending their own poor run and leaving Gladbach bottom with a seventh defeat in nine games. Miro Muheim struck from about 30 metres in the 11th minute, Joe Scally equalised before half-time, and Kō Itakura's second yellow card three minutes after the restart tilted the game. Shafiq Nandja scored on 60 minutes and Albert Grønbæk added a long-range third on 70.