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BERLIN, Germany -- Werder Bremen's title hopes nosedived when they went down 1-0 at home to Wolfsburg on Sunday. It was their third successive defeat and they have slipped to fourth in the Bundesaliga table, seven points behind leaders Bayern Munich.
Grafite's 50th minute matchwinner for Wolfsburg was his ninth league goal of the season.
Wolfsburg rose two places to seventh after Brazilian Grafite scored his ninth league goal of the season after 50 minutes.
Bremen, who went out of the UEFA Cup to Rangers and suffered a 6-3 league loss to champions Stuttgart in this dismal run cannot afford to slip up at Arminia Bielefeld next week.
They would have been even further adrift if leaders Bayern had not been humbled 2-0 at struggling Energie Cottbus on Saturday.
Serbian striker Branko Jelic struck twice for the home side as Cottbus - bottom of the league going into the game - pulled off the Bundesliga's shock of the season as Bayern's Franck Ribery missed a penalty.
Bremen were leap-frogged on Sunday by Bayer Leverkusen, who went third after their impressive 4-1 win over relegation-contenders Nuremberg.
Bayer's Tunisia defender Karim Haggui fired his side into a sixth minute lead but Bosnian midfielder Zvjezdan Misimovic equalized.
An own goal from Nuremberg's Brazilian defender Glauber after 56 minutes put Bayer back in front and Greece striker Theofanis Gekas made it 3-1 after 60 minutes..
Stefan Kiessling scored the fourth goal eight minutes from time. E-mail to a friend 
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