Dortmund down Leverkusen, Schalke beat Stuttgart
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Borussia Dortmund regained top spot in the German Bundesliga from Bayern Munich with a 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to preserve their 100 per cent record after five straight wins. Dortmund have now won 11 games in all competitions, but are top only on goal difference from defending champions Bayern Munich, who have also won all five games this season after beating Darmstadt 3-0 away on Saturday.
Dortmund took the lead when right winger Jonas Hofmann profited from a mistake by Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno to slot into an empty net on 19 minutes. The hosts doubled their lead when left-winger Henrikh Mkhitaryan's pass put Shinji Kagawa in behind the defence to slot past Leno on 58 minutes. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang netted Dortmund's third and his six of the season to match Bayern's Thomas Muller's tally as the league's joint top scorer.
Augsburg picked up their first win of the season with a 2-0 victory at Hannover thanks to goals by right-winger Alexander Esswein and Dutch defender Paul Verhaegh. Earlier, Schalke's Leroy Sane underlined his status as one of Germany's rising junior stars with his club's second-half winner to seal their 1-0 victory at Stuttgart to leave the Royal Blues fourth.