Borussia Moenchengladbach won 1-0 at Stuttgart and Schalke defeated Hanover by the same scoreline for both to stay near the top of the Bundesliga Saturday.
Patrick Herrmann hit a second-half winner for Moenchengladbach at VfB Stuttgart who drop back into the relegation zone.
Coach Lucien Favre's Gladbach side go third, level on 30 points with Schalke, who defeated Hanover thanks to a first-half goal from Marco Hoeger but had Dutch striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar sent off five minutes from time.
Leverkusen could go back to third with a win over visiting Borussia Dortmund in the day's late kick-off. Dortmund go into the match in last place, two points adrift of Stuttgart, Werder Bremen and Hamburg.
Elsewhere Mainz thrashed Paderborn 5-0, Freiburg came from behind to beat Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1, and Cologne won 2-0 at SV Hamburg.
Herrmann's 71st-minute strike from a pass by Branimir Hrgota gave Moenchengladbach the points at Stuttgart, but the visitors were lucky to see a close-range shot from Georg Niedermeier come back from the underside of the bar in stoppage time.
In Gelsenkirchen, Schalke took the points but Huntelaar's red card for a needless foul from behind in the middle of the pitch on Manuel Schmiedebach took some of the shine off the victory by Roberto di Matteo's side.
In Mainz, midfielder Yunus Malli scored in the sixth and 46th minutes, and set up a third for Pablo de Blasis before Sami Allagui and Johannes Geis from the penalty spot completed the rout of Paderborn.
Freiburg conceded a first-minute goal when Marco Russ scored from close range for Frankfurt, but responded with three second-half goals in eight minutes - a penalty from Vladimir Darida and two from Nils Petersen, with Petersen completing a hat-trick two minutes from time.
Croatia striker Ivica Olic went straight into the Hamburg side on his return to his former club from Wolfsburg, but it was visiting Cologne who took the points to leave the northern Germans in trouble near the foot of the table.
Marcel Risse struck an angled shot through the legs of keeper Jaroslav Drobny in the 62nd minute and bagged his second for Cologne on another break 16 minutes later.
On Friday, Wolfsburg stunned leaders Bayern Munich 4-1 in the first match after the league's winter break. Champions Bayern stay on 45 points, eight clear of Wolfsburg, who are seven ahead of Moenchengladbach and Schalke.
The league's resumption saw clubs pay tribute to Junior Malanda, who died in a car accident three weeks ago while travelling as a passenger on his way to join his Wolfsburg teammates departing for South Africa.
At several grounds players joined spectators for a minute's applause in memory of the Belgian Under-21 midfielder. Elsewhere a minute's silence was held.
On Friday, there was a moving tribute before the match between Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich when players from both sides, wearing black armbands, lined up to join spectators for a minute's applause.
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