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Bayern Munich's domestic woes continued on Sunday when they were held 0-0 at Werder Bremen and slipped to fifth in the Bundesliga.

Bayern, who have won only one league game in five this year but crushed Sporting 5-0 in Lisbon in the Champions League last week, are four points behind leaders Hertha Berlin, who went top with a 2-1 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday.

Hamburg (pictured), leaders going into the weekend's matches, failed to regain top spot on Sunday when they lost 3-1 at home to Wolfsburg and are a point behind Hertha.

Hoffenheim are third with 41 after a lacklustre 0-0 draw against Borussia Dortmund.

Wolfsburg, who displaced Bayern from fourth place, notched their fourth successive win after striker Grafite opened the scoring with a penalty, awarded for a foul on Edin Dzeko, in the 12th minute.

Grafite scored again in the 25th when Marcel Schaefer raced past Hamburg's Guy Demel and cut into the middle for the Brazilian striker to net his 14th league goal.

Striker Paolo Guerrero managed to pull one back for Hamburg with a low drive from 10 metres before Dzeko scored his 11th goal from close range just two minutes later.

Bayern, coming into the match on the back of an impressive performance in the away leg of their Champions League last-16 tie, failed to break down Werder's resistance even after the hosts were reduced to 10 men. Naldo was sent off for a foul on Bastian Schweinsteiger after 15 minutes.

With Bayern eager to make amends for a disappointing start to the year and Werder, pre-season favourites now lingering in mid-table despite ousting Milan in the UEFA Cup, both teams charged forward at a frantic pace.

Mesut Ozil almost grabbed the lead for the hosts after four minutes. Diego found the talented Germany international on the left inside the box where he did well to avoid one defender and shoot only for Ze Roberto to clear almost on the line.

Hamit Altintop came agonisingly close for Bayern minutes later but Werder keeper Christian Vander blocked the shot with Franck Ribery's rebound flying into the side netting.

Even the introduction of strikers Lukas Podolski and Landon Donovan for midfielders Schweinsteiger and Altintop in the second half failed to crack open a hard-working home defence.

Reuters