Werder Bremen 6-2 Stuttgart: Fin Bartels and Claudio Pizarro score
Monday 2 May 2016 21:31, UK
Werder Bremen moved out of the Bundesliga's bottom three after a thumping 6-2 win over Stuttgart on Monday.
Stuttgart drop to 17th, second from bottom, after the rout at Bremen's Weser Stadion, but Bremen are just a point above them in 15th.
Bremen took an early lead when Fin Bartels netted after just 10 minutes, but Stuttgart's Daniel Didavi replied just before the half-hour mark.
Stuttgart defender Federico Barba headed into his own net on 33 minutes, then Werder midfielder Levin Oztunali made it 3-1 by netting just before the break.
Barba made amends for his earlier error on 53 minutes when he fired home between the legs of Jannik Vestergaard to leave Stuttgart 3-2 behind.
But Werder made sure of the win when the 37-year-old Claudio Pizarro netted his 14th league goal of the season by firing home on 64 minutes.
Bremen claimed two goals in the final 10 minutes as Bartels grabbed his second before Anthony Ujah came on for Pizarro and scored.
Bremen now play Cologne away on Saturday before hosting Eintracht Frankfurt at home on the final day of the season on May 14.
Stuttgart, the 2007 German champions, are home to seventh-placed Mainz on Saturday, then play Wolfsburg away in their bid to stay up.
