Werder Bremen thrashed Hannover 6-1 to hold onto second place in the Bundesliga, and Duisburg and Hansa Rostock were relegated Saturday. With one round remaining, Bremen is two points ahead of Schalke and looks set to gain direct entry into the Champions League. Schalke edged Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 and will go into Champions League qualifying unless it overtakes Bremen in the final round next Saturday. Duisburg lost 3-2 at home to newly proclaimed champion Bayern Munich, and Rostock went down 2-1 at home to Bayer Leverkusen with both goals coming from the penalty spot. Energie Cottbus made sure of staying in the top division by beating Hamburger SV 2-0 behind goals by Stiven Rivic and Dennis Soerensen in each half. The third team to be relegated will be decided next week and will be either Arminia Bielefeld or FC Nuremberg, last season's German Cup winner. Bielefeld was held to a 2-2 draw at home by Borussia Dortmund, which scored a late equalizer. Nuremberg lost 1-0 at Hertha Berlin. Wolfsburg crushed 10-man Stuttgart, the outgoing champion, 4-0 and is now tied with Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg on 51 points to have a chance of reaching the UEFA Cup. Also, VfL Bochum won 3-1 at Karlsruhe. Bristol City wins promotion David Noble scored a 25-meter winning goal in the third minute of injury time, and Bristol City won 2-1 at Crystal Palace on Saturday in the playoffs for promotion to the Premier League. In the first leg at Selhurst Park, Louis Carey finished off a well-worked free kick to put the visitors ahead in the 53rd minute. But he gave away an 87th-minute penalty, which Ben Watson converted to make it 1-1. Noble's spectacular winner into the top corner of the net gives Bristol City a great chance to advance to the playoff final at Wembley against either Hull City or Watford, who play their first leg on Sunday. The winner of the May 26 playoff final will go up along with West Bromwich Albion and Stoke City, who captured the two automatic promotion spots. Rangers pressure Celtic In Scotland, Nacho Novo scored two early goals and Rangers beat Dundee United 3-1 on Saturday to keep the pressure on Celtic at the top of the Scottish league. Jean-Claude Darcheville scored an injury-time third goal after Mark de Vries had replied for the Terrors in the 76th minute at Ibrox Park. Although Celtic hosts Hibernian on Sunday, a loss for Gordon Strachan's team would mean that Rangers would be only one point behind with two games in hand. Novo headed Rangers in front from Kevin Thomson's free kick in the seventh minute and he made it 2-0 with a volley in the 18th. De Vries pulled a goal back when he fired home a cross from Danny Grainger. But Darcheville collected a pass from Barry Ferguson to make sure of the points with a header. Rangers, who face Zenit St. Petersburg in Wednesday's UEFA Cup final and is also in the Scottish Cup final against Queen of the South, now have 82 points from 35 games. Celtic has 83 from 36. Galatasaray wins title In Istanbul, Galatasaray won the Turkish league title for the 17th time on Saturday with a 2-0 win against Genclerbirligi Oftas, wresting the championship back from its Istanbul rival Fenerbahce. The victory in the final match of the season lifted Galatasaray to 79 points, six ahead of second-placed Fenerbahce, who lost 2
