Imanol Agirretxe headed two goals to give 10-man Real Sociedad a 2-1 win at Sporting Gijon in the first game of the strike-delayed Spanish league season Saturday. Agirretxe— starting for the injured Joseba Llorente— scored with a header in the 35th minute off a pass from defender Carlos Martinez, and added another in the 65th after Xabi Prieto knocked on a cross from Alberto de la Bella. Sporting's Miguel de Las Cuevas scored with a penalty kick in the 68th after Martinez was ejected for pulling down Alberto Botia in the area. But Sociedad held its lead to give coach Philippe Montanier his debut win. Sporting defender Alberto Lola was sent off for a second yellow in extra time. Gomez hits three Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez scored a hat trick to give his team a 3-0 win at Kaiserslautern Saturday and send the Bavarians to the top of the Bundesliga. Gomez, last season's Bundesliga top scorer, converted a 37th-minute penalty and added another 10 minutes after the restart when goalkeeper Kevin Trapp saved the striker's second spot kick but he tapped in on the rebound. The Germany international completed his hat trick, firing in from close range after a Thomas Mueller cross as Bayern, without injured Arjen Robben, kept a clean sheet for the fifth consecutive game in all competitions. Werder Bremen snatched a late 2-1 win at Hoffenheim thanks to a goal by Markus Rosenberg and moved up to nine points, in second place behind Bayern on goal difference. Freiburg piled more misery on 2009 champion VfL Wolfsburg, crushing it 3-0 for its third straight defeat and leaving it on three points from four games in 15th place. Hamburg thought it had ended its own bad run when it led twice against Cologne but it had to suffer its third loss in four games when the visitors grabbed an entertaining 4-3 victory with two goals in the final six minutes. Eto'o saves day for Anzhi Anzhi Makhachkala debutant Samuel Eto'o saved the day for his new club by scoring an equalizer to rescue a 1-1 draw at Rostov in the Russian Premier League Saturday. The 30-year-old came on as a substitute in the 57th minute, prompting great excitement in Rostov's 17,000-seater stadium, where 1,500 Anzhi fans had traveled to witness their new favorite's first appearance. “It was not an easy game,” said Anzhi manager Gadzhi Gadzhiev. “I think Rostov were playing beyond themselves, so we needed to give all we had.”
