BERLIN: 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 past Sven Ulreich.
Freiburg climb to sixth in the standings on 33 points, 17 behind leaders Borussia Dortmund.
Stuttgart remain 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 minute, missing an open goal to hit the post after Freiburg goalkeeper Oliver Baumann had spilled the ball.
“Normally he scores those,” said Stuttgart coach Bruno Labbadia.
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 metres.
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 minute, when de Camargo got ahead of Frankfurt’s Marco Russ to deflect Karim Matmour’s cross between the legs of Oka Nikolov.
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