Leverkusen, Germany (My Sportsbook) - Bayer Leverkusen moved to the top of the Bundesliga table on Saturday with a comfortable 4-0 win over Nurnberg at Bay Arena.

Toni Kroos scored on a free kick inside of two minutes, while Simon Rolfes and Eren Derdiyok also scored first-half goals to put the hosts up 3-0 at halftime. Stefan Kiessling then added his league-leading sixth goal of the season midway through the second half to kill the game off.

Leverkusen now owns a three-point lead over second-placed Hamburg, which meets Hertha Berlin on Sunday, while Nurnberg slips to 17th, only two points above last-placed Hertha.

It took less than two minutes for Leverkusen to assume control of the match as Kroos fired a 30-yard free kick into the upper left corner of the net past a diving Raphael Schafer in the Nurnberg goal.

Rolfes should have made it 2-0 minutes later when he volleyed over the net from inside the six-yard box, but he was given a chance to redeem himself in the 28th minute when Kroos was tripped up inside the area by Nurnberg's Jaouhar Mnari.

Rolfes sent the keeper the wrong way from the penalty spot, and it took only six minutes for the lead to grow even larger.

Kiessling tried a shot from inside the box that was blocked, but he picked up the loose ball, dropped it to Derdiyok at the penalty spot, and he shot first-time past Schafer.

The visitors showed little life after the restart and they let in one more goal in the 68th minute when Manuel Friedrich nodded the ball towards the front of the net for Kiessling to head home.

Mainz moved into fifth place as they surprised Hoffenheim, 2-1, with first- half goals from Andreas Ivanschitz and Aristide Bance, Wolfsburg needed a 75th-minute goal from Edin Dzeko to salvage a 1-1 draw at Bochum, Bayern Munich was held to a 0-0 stalemate at home by Koln, Hannover handed Freiburg a 5-2 defeat and Borussia Dortmund downed Monchengladbach, 1-0 with Lucas Barrios scoring the lone goal of the match.