BUNDESLIGA
Bayern maintain eight point advantage at Bundesliga summit
Guardiola's side maintain their 8 point cushion after a 0-0 draw in Leverkusen. Second placed Dortmund failed to make any ground also drawing 0-0 in Berlin
On Saturday, league leaders Bayern stayed eight points clear despite their goalless draw at Bayer Leverkusen, but Pep Guardiola's Bavarians finished with ten men after Xabi Alonso was sent off.
The Spain midfielder saw red after earning two second-half bookings in quick succession at the BayArena to cap a turbulent week for the Bundesliga leaders.
Vidal started against Leverkusen with Germany forward Thomas Mueller left on the bench as Guardiola played a back three after injuries left him with only one fit centre-back in Holger Badstuber.
Despite having scored 19 goals in as many league games this season, Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski failed to convert either of his two shots at goal.
Hamburg broke their run of three successive Bundesliga defeats with a 1-1 draw at home to Cologne on Sunday on a weekend of stalemates for Germany's top sides.
After defeats to Augsburg, Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart, Hamburg stopped the rot as striker Nicolai Mueller's second-half equaliser cancelled out winger Simon Zoller's goal just before the break.
Darmstadt shoot from 15th up to 11th while Huub Steven's Hoffenheim will be hunting only their third victory of the season at Werder Bremen next weekend in a battle between two teams in the bottom three.
Stuttgart are now up to 11th with their fourth straight league win in a bad-tempered 4-2 victory at Eintracht Frankfurt in which both sides finished with ten men.
Hanover remain rooted to the bottom of the table after their 1-0 defeat at home to Mainz as Spanish midfielder Jairo scored the first-half winner, while mid-table Ingolstadt won the Bavaria derby with a 2-1 success at home to Augsburg.
On Friday, Borussia Moenchengladbach thrashed strugglers Werder Bremen 5-1 as teenage Danish defender Andreas Christensen, on loan from Chelsea, netted twice.