BERLIN (AP): Johannes Flum's first-half goal earned Freiburg a 1-0 win at Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on Sunday, ending the home side's unbeaten start to 2011.
Flum scored in the 24th minute, when he latched onto a through ball from Maximilian Nicu to shoot with his right foot under Sven Ulreich.
Freiburg climbs to sixth in the standings on 33 points, 17 behind leader Borussia Dortmund.
Stuttgart remains second from bottom on goal difference after last-place Borussia Moenchengladbach won 1-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt to move level on 16 points. In Frankfurt, Igor de Camargo scored late on for Moenchengladbach.
Stuttgart substitute Martin Harnik wasted a great chance in the 89th, missing an open goal to hit the post after Freiburg goalkeeper Oliver Baumann had spilled the ball.
Papiss Demba Cisse made an earlier than expected return from injury for Freiburg, and the league's joint top-scorer almost doubled the visitors' advantage before the interval. Serdar Tasci made a crucial block to deny the striker from five meters (yards).
Stuttgart was denied a penalty in the 81st, when Heiko Butscher appeared to handle the ball in the area, but referee Jochen Drees waved play on.
Moenchengladbach's goal came in the 84th, when de Camargo got ahead of Frankfurt defender Marco Russ to deflect Karim Matmour's cross between the legs of Oka Nikolov.
Caio started in place of Fanis Gekas for Frankfurt, and the Brazilian showed why was the subject of reported interest from Dynamo Moscow.
His first chance came in the ninth minute when his powerful shot rose just over the bar.
The 30-year-old Caio continued causing problems for the Moenchengladbach defense, and he crashed the ball off the right post with a shot in the 33rd.
De Camargo should have done better for the visitors in the 41st, when Mohamadou Idrissou headed on a corner, but the Belgian was unable to control the ball and it bounced harmlessly wide.
Borussia coach Michael Frontzeck brought Matmour on for Mike Hanke at halftime, and the Algerian forced Nikolov into action straight away when the goalkeeper had to react smartly to block his shot.
Martin Fanin thought he had scored for Frankfurt in the 62nd, but the effort was ruled out as he strayed marginally offside.
Idrissou forced a fine save from Nikolov in the 69th, and de Camargo thought he scored a minute later when the goalkeeper saved from behind the line before the ball was scooped away. Despite the visitors' appeals, the linesman ruled it did not fully cross the line.
De Camargo could have added a second a minute after scoring, but placed his shot to the right with only Nikolov to beat.
Nikolov produced a one-handed save to prevent midfielder Marco Reus from making the game safe for Moenchengladbach. Moenchengladbach traveled to Frankfurt without American midfielder Michael Bradley, linked with a switch to English side Aston Villa.
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