Nigeria striker Anthony Ujah scored his 11th Bundesliga goal this season for Werder Bremen to move away from the drop zone on the back of a 6-2 win over fellow strugglers Stuttgart.
The win put Bremen 15th on the table on 34 points, just a point above the drop zone, which has already demoted Hannover, Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Stuttgart and Frankfurt are on 33 points with two rounds of matches to the end of the season.
Bremen’s remaining games of the campaign are away to Cologne on Saturday and then a home game against fellow relegation battlers Frankfurt on May 14.
Ujah started the game from the bench but was introduced in the 83rd minute in place of Claudio Pizzaro, and scored Bremen’s sixth goal barely three minutes after coming on.
The 25-year old has been a regular starter for the club, and had a fairly decent start to the season, scoring five goals in the first 11 Bundesliga games, but hit a rough patch shortly afterwards, scoring only three goals in the subsequent 11 games, as Bremen struggled to stay afloat.
However, he scored three goals in five DFB Pokal games, making it 14 goals in 35 appearances in all competitions.
